Metaplace enters Open Beta
Posted by Lowell Cremorne on May 15, 2009 · View Comments
Today the Metaplace team have announced the mover to Open Beta, so if you haven’t checked out this impressive 2D world with content creation, you now have no excuse not to do so. If you want some insight into Metaplace’s founder, Raph Koster, you can check our interview with him here. Things have evolved significantly [...]
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Subscribe to our RSS feed | Print This Post | Follow us on TwitterThe monetisation of Metaplace
Posted by Lowell Cremorne on April 24, 2009 · View Comments
The Alphaville Herald have an interesting post on the subscription options being considered for Metaplace. In the month or so since I last spent some time in Metaplace, its further growth in users and related new worlds has become apparent. It’s a platform that has real potential to earn dollars for its creators, particularly given [...]
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Subscribe to our RSS feed | Print This Post | Follow us on TwitterMerged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
Posted by Lowell Cremorne on April 2, 2009 · View Comments
1. This week we interviewed Draxtor Depres for Episode 9 of the TMJ Podcast. His latest commission is using machinima to represent classic Californian literature, and the latest product of that can be seen here: 2. Habbo Hotel’s parent company Sulake has released its financial results for calendar year 2008, showing annual revenue of 50 [...]
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Subscribe to our RSS feed | Print This Post | Follow us on TwitterMerged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
Posted by Lowell Cremorne on March 25, 2009 · View Comments
1. Habbo Australia have surveyed 4012 teenagers (12-18 year olds) on their concerns, with 81% citing the environment as a major issue, with an unsurprising emphasis on bushfires. Habbo will be closing down for Earth Hour on March 28th at 8.30pm AEDT. What say you Linden Lab, Blizzard and others? 2. The Alphaville Herald has [...]
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Subscribe to our RSS feed | Print This Post | Follow us on TwitterVideo review of Metaplace
Posted by Lowell Cremorne on February 27, 2009 · View Comments
The MP Insider blog has a video review of a particular gaming area in Metaplace – Zoo Escape!. For those who haven’t seen Metaplace in action, it’s a useful heads-up on its form factor and its content creation options: As stated previously, being web-based and having good content creation opportunities should prove an enticing package.
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Subscribe to our RSS feed | Print This Post | Follow us on TwitterMerged realities: events and issues for virtual worlds
Posted by Lowell Cremorne on February 6, 2009 · View Comments
Two of our more popular features each week are our weekly mainstream news roundup, The Watch, and our weekly does of machinima, Weekend Whimsy. The former runs Mondays, the latter Fridays. We’ve decided to add a new feature that will run in the middle of the week, called Merged Realities. It will be a handful [...]
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Subscribe to our RSS feed | Print This Post | Follow us on TwitterInterview – Raph Koster, Co-founder and President, Metaplace
Posted by Lowell Cremorne on January 25, 2009 · View Comments
If the virtual worlds industry has elder statesmen, Raph Koster is definitely one of them. It’s a term he probably dislikes, but the reality is he’s had a direct involvement in some key milestones from text-based worlds (MUDs) through to the present day. After spending some time with his latest project, Metaplace, we took the [...]
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