Otherland MMO Announced

Eurogamer breaks news that German games publisher DTP Entertainment will be making an MMORPG based on Tad Williams' Otherland series of books. As anyone who has read the books will know, this could be an interesting new spin on virtual worlds. Quoting: "For want of a better soundbite, let's call it the first cyberpunk MMO: a virtual world about virtual worlds, in which your avatar is an avatar, the NPCs play NPCs, and you explore a multiverse in which you might be in realistic historical surroundings one minute, and cartoon fantasy ones the next. Everything changes, even your own appearance, and nothing is even pretending to be real. ... You start the game as one of those consciousnesses in a place called the Land of the Lost, a nightmare scenario which you're trying to escape. You'll run, be killed, and reborn in a 'baby' state as a simple, low-rent sim (though we suspect the game won't be using that term, for obvious reasons) - a blank, featureless avatar that can be male, female or even neither."

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Re:Yet Another Windows-Only Title?

[citylivin]

Look macophile, its bad enough we have to support your "different" platform in the corporate world now. Don't be wandering into the gaming world with your turtlenecks, lattes and copies of the communist manifesto. I am tired of mac users, between their sips of ethos water and radiohead tracks, preaching minority rights. YOU made the choice to buy an incompatible, overpriced, non upgradeable "appliance", not me. Whats next, complaining that you cant PC game on your tv or dishwasher?

Shouldn't you be focusing on your schoolwork anyway comrade, instead of thinking about games? How are you going to buy that next overpriced mac if you dont get into some sort of advertising, movie executive, or ceo of a web 2.0 company job?