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• E3 MMO movement

  From here, it sure like the virtual world-ish convergence that has long been predicted is hitting the consoles in earnest. XBox Live is adding avatars, akin to the Nintendo Miis, but it looks like they’ll have a bit more spatiality and multiplayer interaction to them — and will be the basic interface for XBL from now [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:05 PM from Raph's Website | 0 Comments

• The market glut

  Nielsen is saying that Club Penguin is stalling out — not much, just a -7% growth year on year from last April to this April. Of course, with the quantity of kids’ worlds coming into the market now, this is not really surprising, is it? I mean, I was at the grocery store this weekend, and [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:02 PM from Raph's Website | 0 Comments Filed under: Game talk, Game Industry, WoW, club penguin, Age of Conan, zwinky, flyff, gaia, shot online

• Club Penguin adds 1000 words a day to their filter

  MMO Week: Industry has been irresponsible with kids // News // GamesIndustry.biz Merrifield also thinks that there is an over-reliance on technology that ignores the human element, which is why they’ve decided to devote two-thirds of the company’s staff to positions such as safety moderators and customer service. “We know the limits of technology, even though I [...] Read More... Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 11:52 AM from Raph's Website | 0 Comments

• Disney decides to close VMK

  So Disney is closing Virtual Magic Kingdom, which apparently has a fairly active community. They are, of course, actively making other worlds available, such as Club Penguin, Toontown, Pirates, etc… but that is no consolation to the VMK community, who don’t consider any of those replacements acceptable. Once again — virtual worlds have to be killed [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:24 AM from Raph's Website | 0 Comments Filed under: Game talk, club penguin, vmk, pirates of the caribbean, disney, toontown

• Club Penguin and Sony Call Off Wedding

  As I posted last month, Club Penguin (one of the largest virtual worlds/MMOs around, focusing on kids) was in talks with Sony for acquisition at half a billion. According to paidContent, the deal is off. The Club Penguin folks were asking for upwards of half a billion, and Sony was offering $450 million or so. [...] Read More... Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 1:05 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments

• Club Penguin Worth Half a Billion?

  Holy shit…. TechCrunch reports that Sony is in talks with Club Penguin to buy the latter for upwards of half a billion! They have about 500,000 active users, $65 million in annual revenue and $35 million in annual profit. Those numbers make half a billion seem almost reasonable. That’d be a P/E ratio (price/earnings) of about [...] Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:34 PM from The Forge | 0 Comments Filed under: Runescape, club penguin