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Turbine Lands $30 Million in Venture Capital

Posted by Zonk on from the more-virtual-land-ready-to-be-plowed dept.

Gamasutra has word that MMOG maker Turbine, developer of AC, AC2, DDO, and MEO, has succeeded in raising another round of venture capital for current and future projects. From the article: "The company has recently been strengthening its publishing and rights hold on its internally-developed products. It assumed complete control of development and publishing on Middle Earth Online, after finalizing a deal with Tolkien Enterprises and VU Games, and also took full control of Asheron's Call from Microsoft following the company's first round of financing. Of Turbine's major new MMO worlds, Dungeons & Dragons Online is due to launch later in 2005, and The Lord Of The Rings: Middle Earth Online will launch some time in 2006."

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  1. For those still confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I know that the parent was a joke, but the excessive use of acronyms in the story is still pretty confusing. The games being referred to here are:

    AC = Asheron's Call
    DDO = Dungeons & Dragons Online
    MEO = Middle Earth Online

    A MMOG, of course, is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game.