And correction: Midway Home Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc.) is co-publishing (with Turbine) and distributing in North America.
The LotR MMO formerly known as Middle Earth Online, that is.
Today, though, the developer announced that it is no longer self-publishing Middle-earth Online, which has since been renamed The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Instead, Turbine has joined forces with Midway Games, which will now copublish and distribute the fantasy PC title, set for release later this year.
Turbine, Inc. announced today that Midway Home Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc. NYSE: MWY) will co-publish (along with Turbine) and distribute The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar in North America.
etc.
Either way, your post was very informative. Five thumbs up!
Gamasutra has the word that EA has the Lord of the Rings IP locked up through the end of next year.
That is, of course, with the exception of the LotR MMORPG mentioned in the article, which is being developed by Turbine, published in the US by Midway, and published in the UK by Codemasters.
Technology to prevent legal use ought to be perfectly legal to remove, one.
And two, perfectly illegal to apply in the first place.
If they want to pass laws taking away our rights, let 'em do that, openly and honestly, instead of engaging in some shifty, dishonest, sneak-attack from the rear on account of knowing they'd never get away with it while being honest.
Although... who would still buy music if you could download it for free online?
For years, I was in the habit of remembering favorites, typing URLs right into the location bar, and keeping my bookmarks a hideous mess of links I only wanted to put somewhere for a minute or two 'til I got back to them (then left them there forever).
If I needed to do a searh, I typed google.com in the location bar, hit enter, clicked into the search bar, typed whatever it was, got the list, then resumed clicking.
I've since switched to the search bar and just find it easier. Whether searching, or typing in the name of site where www.nameofsite.com is the URL, It's more ergonomic, less switching from typing in a bar to clicking.
If I'm thinking about it, course the location bar when I know the URL is best. But sometimes I'm thinking about other things, not thinking, maybe even hammered. Then it's back to habit, and I like that habit better than what I was doing before.
With writers, it depends. Some are good and some are bad. Sometimes a good one is bad for a particular project.
The killer though, is the writer - good or bad - who doesn't seem to realize it's a video game. Those get tuned out and treated as unimportant, 'cause... You try to straighten 'em out, then.
A lot of gamers/devs love to read well written things and recognize skill when they see it. One being treated as a member of the unskilled labor pool is A) On a project intended to be poorly written, B) Not skilled, C) Skilled, but writing for future-machines or wizards or some damned thing.
I remember when I accidentally deleted one or two (or three?) days of Susan's work. But I'm sure it was even better the second time anyway. So everybody won!
I'm getting to the point where I don't even care if violent games do make kids violent. I'm sick of the waste of tax dollars every time some politico needs proof that the constitution STILL hasn't been amended so as to make way for this.
I'd rather take my chances with the kids. For this amount of money we could put 'em all on zoloft anyway.
I, lazy/busy American/Nabob, cannot be inconvenienced to cart around one of these for every one of all my very important, easy to remember and of course identical passwords.
My bank has me scratch my mark on paper and fax it for anything critical, asks me to call from my phone-of-recod for some things of a little import, and insures everything else.
I don't know how much that costs you all in additional fees and such, but thank you, and keep up the good work!
30 people a day read my blog, and they were looking for something else. In the unlikely event I write something worth your reading of it, it could be years before anyone else pushes it here.
As long as the author can only suggest it, and not actually put it on the front page themselves, meh.
They're only slightly less capable, or if suffering from self-esteem issues potentially much more, judges of their work as the next random dude on the internet to run across it.
I called my wife over to see it. "Look at this nerd!" Har Har. "What a dork!"
She walked over to see. I explained the situation.
She wandered off. I watched and yelled back the play-by-play. "Oh when he turns his hand, it spins!"
Then suddenly startled myself, "THAT'S COOL!"
Immediately followed by, "I can't believe I just said that was cool. GOD!"
Wife cares not one bit about any of this.
Probably worse for the average user not to have a wrist-strap at all, but better for Nintendo not to have anything that anyone can claim to be defective.
Kinda sorta maybe. I got the impression it was sorta like an employee-owned-business and kinda like a co-op, but mostly like a web page with an email address on it.
First thought is that with no one "in charge", the ones who work the most will decide what gets worked on the most, at which point they ought to just dump everyone else and go into business.
I'd agree that MS is losing a lot of the "power" that owning the desktop used to give them, but not for many of the reasons cited there.
I think, rather, "the desktop" has just becoming less important.
It's not just about who has the best search engine, either. Yahoo's *integration* of messenger, email, a friendster-style network, blogging, email/webforum groups, customized homepage, etc. is more impressively useful than whatever OS and browser I choose to access those things.
Or rather, all those sorts of things combined are becoming more of what I consider "my operating system" to be than my wallpaper or even the contents of my local hard drive.
Google is on a slightly different path, but headed in the same direction, I think. I use gmail, blogger, googlenews, google maps - their integration is pretty terrible compared to Yahoo's - as is MS' integration of the piecemeal "online apps" that it has picked up - but google's stuff just seems to work better for me and I'm already there. Whereas Yahoo's implementation is almost compelling enough to get me to switch over to it wholesale, MS is doin' what now?
Slashdot Mirror
"The first time we have two female commanders in orbit - that will be neat," Whitson said.
He should have said "hot".
And correction: Midway Home Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc.) is co-publishing (with Turbine) and distributing in North America. The LotR MMO formerly known as Middle Earth Online, that is.
I think Midway's in it as more than a distributor.
Yahoo Video Games Game Invasion etc. Either way, your post was very informative. Five thumbs up!Ignore me. I'm stuck on talking about LotR Online mode. I know, I should hush now, 'cause adults are talking.
You think EA inviting their customers to play a Turbine game published by Midway? I disbelieve... ...Natural 20!
They're not using the Sims 2 AI. Nothing but the Sims 2 is using the Sims 2 AI.
Uhm... Are you talking about Kynapse?
LOTS of games are using that.
Not the Sim 2, though.
That is, of course, with the exception of the LotR MMORPG mentioned in the article, which is being developed by Turbine, published in the US by Midway, and published in the UK by Codemasters.
Strictly speaking, "open beta" usually means all 6+ billion of us are "invited".
'Course, it is LotR, so that expectation might not be out of line.
I liked this, too: "the most complete and authentic massively multiplayer online (MMO) world based upon the famous Books of J.R.R. Tolkien."
Uhm... ok!
8th-place, at worst. I'm going to have a t-shirt made.
I'm with you.
Technology to prevent legal use ought to be perfectly legal to remove, one.
And two, perfectly illegal to apply in the first place.
If they want to pass laws taking away our rights, let 'em do that, openly and honestly, instead of engaging in some shifty, dishonest, sneak-attack from the rear on account of knowing they'd never get away with it while being honest.
Although... who would still buy music if you could download it for free online?
For years, I was in the habit of remembering favorites, typing URLs right into the location bar, and keeping my bookmarks a hideous mess of links I only wanted to put somewhere for a minute or two 'til I got back to them (then left them there forever).
If I needed to do a searh, I typed google.com in the location bar, hit enter, clicked into the search bar, typed whatever it was, got the list, then resumed clicking.
I've since switched to the search bar and just find it easier. Whether searching, or typing in the name of site where www.nameofsite.com is the URL, It's more ergonomic, less switching from typing in a bar to clicking.
If I'm thinking about it, course the location bar when I know the URL is best. But sometimes I'm thinking about other things, not thinking, maybe even hammered. Then it's back to habit, and I like that habit better than what I was doing before.
Bookmarks are still a mess, though.
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Then who will write our books?
These are the line of defense against fanfic.
With writers, it depends. Some are good and some are bad. Sometimes a good one is bad for a particular project.
The killer though, is the writer - good or bad - who doesn't seem to realize it's a video game. Those get tuned out and treated as unimportant, 'cause... You try to straighten 'em out, then.
A lot of gamers/devs love to read well written things and recognize skill when they see it. One being treated as a member of the unskilled labor pool is A) On a project intended to be poorly written, B) Not skilled, C) Skilled, but writing for future-machines or wizards or some damned thing.
The ones who were saying that were unemployed, and if they still are, then they still are.
I remember when I accidentally deleted one or two (or three?) days of Susan's work. But I'm sure it was even better the second time anyway. So everybody won!
I'm getting to the point where I don't even care if violent games do make kids violent. I'm sick of the waste of tax dollars every time some politico needs proof that the constitution STILL hasn't been amended so as to make way for this.
I'd rather take my chances with the kids. For this amount of money we could put 'em all on zoloft anyway.
I, lazy/busy American/Nabob, cannot be inconvenienced to cart around one of these for every one of all my very important, easy to remember and of course identical passwords.
My bank has me scratch my mark on paper and fax it for anything critical, asks me to call from my phone-of-recod for some things of a little import, and insures everything else.
I don't know how much that costs you all in additional fees and such, but thank you, and keep up the good work!
I went to 'Freedom to Measure'. I read this:
I followed the 'search engine' link, which went to http://www.hostess.com/womanhood/f2m/Search.htm
It didn't work, so I manually went up to http://www.hostess.com/
There is a search engine!
But there were no hits for metrification.
30 people a day read my blog, and they were looking for something else. In the unlikely event I write something worth your reading of it, it could be years before anyone else pushes it here.
As long as the author can only suggest it, and not actually put it on the front page themselves, meh.
They're only slightly less capable, or if suffering from self-esteem issues potentially much more, judges of their work as the next random dude on the internet to run across it.
Yeah, and slashdot ate all my paragraphs, so I look like a LOON.
I called my wife over to see it. "Look at this nerd!" Har Har. "What a dork!" She walked over to see. I explained the situation. She wandered off. I watched and yelled back the play-by-play. "Oh when he turns his hand, it spins!" Then suddenly startled myself, "THAT'S COOL!" Immediately followed by, "I can't believe I just said that was cool. GOD!" Wife cares not one bit about any of this.
Probably worse for the average user not to have a wrist-strap at all, but better for Nintendo not to have anything that anyone can claim to be defective.
I thought I did that.
Kinda sorta maybe. I got the impression it was sorta like an employee-owned-business and kinda like a co-op, but mostly like a web page with an email address on it. First thought is that with no one "in charge", the ones who work the most will decide what gets worked on the most, at which point they ought to just dump everyone else and go into business.
I'd agree that MS is losing a lot of the "power" that owning the desktop used to give them, but not for many of the reasons cited there.
I think, rather, "the desktop" has just becoming less important.
It's not just about who has the best search engine, either. Yahoo's *integration* of messenger, email, a friendster-style network, blogging, email/webforum groups, customized homepage, etc. is more impressively useful than whatever OS and browser I choose to access those things.
Or rather, all those sorts of things combined are becoming more of what I consider "my operating system" to be than my wallpaper or even the contents of my local hard drive.
Google is on a slightly different path, but headed in the same direction, I think. I use gmail, blogger, googlenews, google maps - their integration is pretty terrible compared to Yahoo's - as is MS' integration of the piecemeal "online apps" that it has picked up - but google's stuff just seems to work better for me and I'm already there. Whereas Yahoo's implementation is almost compelling enough to get me to switch over to it wholesale, MS is doin' what now?