Massively Multiplayer News
A mix of gaming news:
- Blizzard has apparently pulled the plug on StarCraft: Ghost, at least for this console generation. This is something of a surprise to me, if true, and a shame: A demo of it was playable at BlizzCon and a long-ago demo I saw of the game when I worked at Blizzard, featuring Nova sneaking her way through a rogue Terran base, stealing a flying motorcycle (sorry, SC fans, I don’t remember what they’re called) and then zipping out into a battlefield with the Zerg and Terran armies clashing all around her looked amazing. (And for those keeping score, this makes two franchise-related games Blizzard has killed for not being all they can be, with the first being Warcraft Adventures, a painful-to-watch old style adventure game developed by a Russian firm.)
- PlanetSide, Sony Online Entertainment’s Starship Troopers-flavored MMORPG — well, they call it a Massively Multiplayer Real Time Shooter, which seems to me to be slicing this particular hair needlessly thin — is now free for a year, sort of. In PlanetSide Reserves, players can check out the game but are restricted as to what rank they can achieve in one of the three warring futuristic armies. I’ll definitely be checking this one out.
- Raph Koster, the man behind Ultima Online and who brought a distinct UO feel to the Star Wars franchise in the troubled Star Wars Galaxy MMORPG — because, when you think Star Wars, don’t you just fantasize about paying $15/month to be a droid repairman? — has left the building. Rumors that Sony would be losing the Star Wars license and that Bioware would be creating a massively multiplayer version of their wildly popular Knights of the Old Republic computer roleplaying games appear to be so much bantha poodoo, however.
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