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Stories · 6

  1. MMORPGs - From MUDs To Mainstream

    Games · Pcgames · · posted by simoniker · from the brought-to-you-by-sponsor-x dept. · 14 comments
    Thanks to GameSpy for the first in a series of weekly articles charting the evolution of massively multiplayer online games. The piece discusses the claim that "All of the elements of MMOGs existed by the late eighties, but they did not exist in a single product", but suggests that Meridian 59 was the first "Internet-based, true graphical-based MUD." The article goes on to chart the rise of MMORPGs through Ultima Online (which "proved that there was a market for MMOGs, but... also suffered from problems that would haunt online worlds"), Lineage (which found "a ravenous market of its own overseas"), and EverQuest (which "accomplished everything that Meridian 59 attempted to do.")

  2. Interview w/Edward Castronova

    Games · Money · · posted by michael · from the gender-bender dept. · 54 comments
    scubacuda writes "/.ers interested in the recent editorial on real $ in MMORPGs might also be interested in a GrepLaw interview I just conducted with Edward Castranova (expert witness in the recent Black Hat Hacker Court) about how his work on synthetic economies affects larger law and policy issues on the Internet. Ted has some interesting thoughts, particularly how online game-based economics (Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest, Lineage, etc.) will eventually serve as the bases for "real governments." Should mainstream economics journals take his work on gender and virtual economies seriously, Ted promises to eat his virtual hat."

  3. Lineage Beta Released For Mac OS X

    Apple · Apple · · posted by pudge · from the roleplaying-games-for-dummies dept. · 28 comments
    wadeb writes: "NCSoft Austin is running a beta of Lineage (the popular MMORPG ? from Korea) for Mac OS X (10.1.2 required). Lineage is the world's most popular MMORPG, with over 2.7 million active subscribers worldside. The demo is available from the website as well as through Apple's iDisk."

  4. Lineage Beta Released For Mac OS X

    Apple · Apple · · posted by pudge · from the roleplaying-games-for-dummies dept. · 28 comments
    wadeb writes: "NCSoft Austin is running a beta of Lineage (the popular MMORPG ? from Korea) for Mac OS X (10.1.2 required). Lineage is the world's most popular MMORPG, with over 2.7 million active subscribers worldside. The demo is available from the website as well as through Apple's iDisk."

  5. Lineage Beta Released For Mac OS X

    Apple · Apple · · posted by pudge · from the roleplaying-games-for-dummies dept. · 28 comments
    wadeb writes: "NCSoft Austin is running a beta of Lineage (the popular MMORPG ? from Korea) for Mac OS X (10.1.2 required). Lineage is the world's most popular MMORPG, with over 2.7 million active subscribers worldside. The demo is available from the website as well as through Apple's iDisk."

  6. The Latest On Lord British

    Games · Games · · posted by chrisd · from the who-doesn't-want-a-moat-after-all dept. · 103 comments
    Our friends at Salon have an article "The Return of Lord British" about what Richard Garriot has been up to in the last year since he's left Origin. It is mostly about Lineage (a mmporpg ? ), but it touches on EA mismanagement (new tagline "We create write-offs").