26
Jul

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22
Jul

Gaia Online Launches zOMG Beta

Posted By GameSaint in Game News

The vast virtual world of Gaia Online is expanding yet again, with the just-launched closed beta of -- I'm not making this up -- zOMG.

This latest, free addition brings Gaia into line with more traditional MMO titles. While it has earned nearly 6 million users with a clever, teen-centric blend of social networking and casual gaming in the past, zOMG adds a world to explore, roleplaying elements and semi-real time combat.

Gaia Online senior producer Dave Georgeson believes that though the game may not overtake World of Wacraft, it should still provide Gaia fans with even more to distract them from reality: "If each of our 6 million subscribers decide to try it for free, and then 30 percent of them enjoy it and keep playing, that's a huge number of players."

But what about that name?

Dave chuckles. It "captures the spirit of our users," he says, pointing out the naming process which saw hundreds of thousands of submissions from the site's rabid fanbase.

Though the company originally planned to fit a standard high-fantasy MMO title to the expansion, Georgeson saw all those "Legends of" and "Realms of" monikers as too dull to truly reflect Gaia's unique (if indecipherable to adults) community.

zOMG, a "sarcastic" jab at "those who too often fall back on" the "OMG" acronym, perfectly represents the spirit of teenage irreverence and rebellion, says Georgeson.

Should I be worried that I'm getting too old to get this stuff?

The name aside, gameplay in zOMG seems very intuitive. Everything is rendered in Flash so there's no need for a high-end gaming computer, and even the UI seems like a simplified nod to those 3-D MMOs that are all the rage.

Key to the zOMG difference is the game's attitude. Georgeson demonstrated a bit of the combat in the game -- very rote, point-and-click type stuff -- but then also showed me one of the game's mini-games, a golf-like sport called "Goof."

Goof allows you to bat a large white golf ball toward holes within the zOMG world, though the key to its appeal is that the courses available range througout the combat zones of the MMO. One minute you'll be teeing off and the next you'll be assaulted by angry garden gnomes.

If only real golf were that exciting.

It remains to be seen how Gaia's users will react to a true MMO entering their social networking space, but simply based on the ridiculous success the virtual realm has already seen, I doubt zOMG will have much trouble finding a sizeable audience.

20
Jul

Vet game designer working with Pixar

Posted By GameSaint in Game News
The big news in the world of gaming today is the revelation that well-known video game designer Warren Spector, who's game development studio was acquired by Disney in 2007, is working on games in conjunction with Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios (formerly Walt Disney Feature Animation).

It all started with an entry posted yesterday on Spector's blog where he says:
"My team and I have been working hard on our own and (get ready for the cool factor to go way up) in collaboration with folks from Disney Feature Animation and Pixar. If I say anymore, I’ll get in trouble, so let’s just leave it at that."
What could this be about? On the Pixar side of things, put your money on Toy Story 3. It can't be Up; Pixar's contract with game publisher THQ runs through Up, ending thereafter. Or perhaps it's something else entirely...
18
Jul

Gamers Bought Video Games With Their Stimulus Checks

Posted By GameSaint in Game News
Did you buy video games with your stimulus check from Uncle Sam? Join the crowd. The IRS mailed the first stimulus checks on May 2nd and by May 6th video game resale prices started increasing. Just enough time for people to cash their checks and choose their games.



The chart below shows the average resale video game price for 2007 and 2008 (The average includes more than 5,000 video games from every console from NES to Xbox 360). The prices shown are an indexed price starting at 1 so you can see the relative price change easier. Because video games drop in price, for the most part, the actual 2007 average price is higher than 2008 average price.
17
Jul

Yahoo! Injects Commercials into Video Games

Posted By GameSaint in Game News

On Thursday Yahoo announced that it would begin including hundreds of online games for free download from its portal site. In an unusual marketing twist, Yahoo is integrating commercial advertising into the games. Whether or not the public will accept advert-heavy video games remains to be seen.

According to Yahoo, more than 400 popular games will be available for download, all supported by in-game advertising. The games include various titles from publishers such as Sugar Games and Big Fish Games. The titles should be available on the Yahoo web site before the end of the year, according to company representatives.

To integrate advertisements into the video games, Yahoo has partnered with DoubleFusion, and will be selling ad spots in the games with the assistance of NeoEdge. Most of the games being considered are casual online-type video games, which do not require much time to play. Some of the more popular titles include Solitaire and Tetris. These types of casual video games are associated primarily with female players in the 35 to 54 age group, according to Yahoo demographics specialists.

Critics have charged that placing commercial advertising inside video games is a sign of desperation from Yahoo, which has recently struggled to shake off unsolicited takeover bids by Microsoft and others after seven consecutive quarters of disappointing earnings. Some pundits charge the company is simply looking to earn an advertising buck any way they can, even if it means grabbing for nickels and dimes from online game advertising.

Yahoo, on the other hand, says that in-game advertising allows it and its various publishing partners to increase revenue by giving advertisers access to gamers, a coveted demographic.

But for many hard-core gamers, what Yahoo is doing is blasphemy plain and simple. Serious video game players are worried that the powers that be will begin injecting commercial advertising into all sorts of video games, not just downloadable titles. They imagine being in the middle of a high speed police chase in Grand Theft Auto IV, when suddenly the screen goes black and a Pepsi or Red Bull commercial takes over for 30 seconds!

While there is currently no indication that video game developers plan to incorporate this type of overt advertising into games, for many, Yahoo’s move sets a bad precedent. Real gamers want to keep their games pure and untainted by commercial advertising as much as possible. And as sick and tired as we all get of being constantly bombarded with adverts, who can really blame them?