BLOG—A new controversy springs up from the release of Manhunt 2, and this one has nothing to do with violence. A producer at the now closed Vienna office of Rockstar Games has called foul about Vienna employees’ absence from game credits.
 Rockstar Games’ Manhunt 2 is a controversial game, and now it’s not just because of ratings and violence. Following the release of the game, a producer at Rockstar’s now closed Vienna office, which worked on the game from 2004—2006, published an outraged post on his personal blog concerning Manhunt 2’s credits which do not give recognition to the staff members employed at the Vienna studio and who worked on the game.

The producer, Jurie Horneman, was one of over fifty employees who worked on the game in Vienna before the office was unexpectedly closed down on May 11th of 2006, after which the development for Manhunt 2 was moved to Rockstar’s London studio.

In response to the slight Horneman perceives from Rockstar, he attempts to name all 50+ employees from the Vienna office and lists them in his weblog post.

According to Horneman, other than the people who briefly visited London to assist in the development of Manhunt 2 at that location, “nobody f

turns out as a major disappointment !?
It's never a good idea to count mmo games before they are hatched.

Do you remember the beginning of 2006 and its big press announcement of 5 major game developments in the MMOVSG area ?
For those who still have problems with that term, the meaning is Massively Multiplayer Online Virtual Sex Games =)
Even the big german newspaper SPIEGEL reported about these developments and speculated about how these new candidates would implement virtual sex as an immersive experience...

Well, for most of these games the scheduled release time is up !
Let's take a look on what was reached:

1) Spend The Night
     "Graphically-rich 3D multiplayer virtual sex role-playing game"
    Planned Completion Date: 2007

This game was a really promising candidate, its production suspend was already announced April 2006 due to funding issues and therefore a very early disappointment.

2) Naughty America The Game
    "Dating and network realm in a 2D-cartoon-based world"
     Planned Completion Date: March 2006 (Beta Version)

There's no progress on the game homepage, even the entry page still titles "coming fall 2006". That's not very promising, plain-spoken

Although I write an advice column, sometimes I need an outsiders opinion when it comes to matters of the heart. When these occasions arise I turn to Monstar. Why you ask? Because the fucker has an entourage of hot chicks 24/7!

The problem I have been having is that as soon as I fall asleep they steal all my pills and cash and buy purses. I?m not alone in my suffering. but that doesn?t make me feel better.
I just want a girl that will eat my pussy watch the fights and play WOW. well Monstar hooked a sister up. I would like you to meet The most interesting porn chick I have had the honor of Stalking. Mia Rose. (pictured above) I haven?t been able to get her into the fights yet (Jenna just takes the hipness out of it)but if she ever gits level 60 she promised to spend the day watching hot guys sweat with me. I seriously think she may be marriage material!

Well naturally I followed the tried and true way for a journalist to get some ass, I interviewed her about something she is passionate about...World Of War Craft.

What server do you play?
I play on US server Mal? Ganis. I started on Arthas but the server was going to hell so me and my guild switched. "25? to switch your char and all

Online role-playing games captivate users, cut into their sleep, a study finds MMORPGs have become a huge phenomenon in the last 5 years

Professor: These games really suck in players
   
NEW YORK (AP) -- Role-playing games with an Internet element are so much more captivating than equivalent electronic games where users don't go online that they change users' lives, cutting into their sleep and boosting the time they spend playing, a new study shows.

So-called massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, have become a huge phenomenon in the game world in the last five years. The largest, "World of Warcraft," has more than 9 million players.

The study by Joshua Smyth, a Syracuse University psychology professor, says one reason for their success is they really suck in players.

Smyth divided 100 student volunteers randomly into four groups. One got tokens to play at a local arcade, a second played the adventure game "Gauntlet: Dark Legacy" on a Sony Corp. PlayStation 2 console and the third played role-playing game "Diablo II" on computers.

Only the fourth group, which played MMORPG "Dark Age of Camelot," also on computers, had online interaction.

After a month, the MMORPG pl

BLOG - Big businesses are increasingly acknowledging the benefits gaming can play on their staff and organizations.
 

The growing role games are playing in the lives of so many people is leading companies to formulate strategies aimed at harnessing the skills and familiarity employees have with virtual environments in order to benefit their organizations.

According to the BBC, academics and researchers say that the organizational skills required to run team games or coordinate a 40 person raid in a virtual world can be highly beneficial in the workplace.

"It's about harnessing that ability to play to get work done," says IBM’s Ian Hughes.

Dr Byron Reeves, a professor at Stanford University who has formed a company called Seriosity that applies game elements to workplaces, says that companies are more than willing to look at different methods for improving the functionality of their workforces.

Seriosity is currently working with a handful of Fortune 500 companies, and one program being run adds a virtual currency element to e-mail to help people prioritize messages and avoid information overload.

"The whole idea here is to get the objectives of the individual players aligned with th

I've built many blogs ,and forgot where they are now. Kinda mess up. So I decided to gather all the links here. As we finally have our own blog space on MMOsite~

My Space:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&friendID=35710504&blogMonth=&BlogDay=&blogYear=&Mytoken=B123311D-BB9C-4B3E-A439BE1518637FB371345701

Zorpia:

http://www.zorpia.com/adamskydancer

Most aspiring porn stars come to porn valley from far off places like Florida, the farms of the Mid-West or even from Los Angeles but not too many come from the barren wilderness of Alaska. Meet Mia Rose, a 19 year old porn star with an appetite for sex as large as her home state is big. Breaking into the business of porn with her older sister Ava Rose, Mia's catalog of DVDs is small but growing by the day. In this Interview with XRentDVD's Big D, Mia discusses the challenges of moving from a small town in Alaska to Los Angeles, how her approach to sex is different than her sister and why she has been to the beach but never swam in the ocean.

Big D: Your start is a bit different than most. You are the younger sister of Ava Rose and you both got into porn at the same time. How did you guys come to the decision to go into the adult business and start making adult DVDs?
 
Mia Rose: My sister and I were born and raised in Alaska but we had moved down to Reno, Nevada when someone approached us on MySpace. They said they wanted to take some pictures of my sister for a photo shoot. Just pictures that were going to be nude and that was fine but she also didn't want to go alone. So she directe

Codemasters' sci-fi title RF Online is the publisher's second MMO that it will be offering for free in Europe and North America.
“Moving RF Online to free-to-play game marks yet another milestone for Codemasters Online and the wider industry," claimed Codemasters Online marketing director Ed Relf. "We have proven with ArchLord that has been downloaded over 1 million times the potential success that can be experienced and we are pleased to be in a position to re-launch RF Online using a similar model."

In late 2006, Codemasters announced that its fantasy MMO ArchLord would be going the free-to-play route.

A number of online companies have been moving towards the free-to-download/play model in an effort to attract a wider audience in a market that's dominated by World of Warcraft. NCsoft's Dungeon Runners is also a free experience, as is SOE's Free Realms and the entire Acclaim lineup.

Typically, such free MMOs are supported by microtransactions, subscriptions for "enhanced" gameplay and advertising.

 Ahead of Ubisoft's Q2 results expected October 23rd, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter has predicted sales ahead of consensus estimates of €112 million ($158.9 million) and said the company's share price should rise with continued success of the Nintendo DS.

Pachter says that based on the last two months of NPD results, September should see Ubisoft bringing in $66 million in U.S. sales, up from $51 million the year prior.

He also predicts that the company will raise its guidance for fiscal 2008, and that Wedbush has adjusted its own Q3 and Q4 estimates as Brother In Arms: Hell's Highway gets lifted into Q3, but is maintaining "conservative" yearly sales estimates of €825 million ($1.17 billion).

Finally, says Pachter, "We expect continued strong sales of Nintendo Wii and DS hardware to provide a near term catalyst for Ubisoft share price appreciation. We believe that the company’s lineup of casual games will benefit from strong DS sales, and will position it to deliver upside to consensus revenue and earnings estimates for FY:08."

Codemasters Online Gaming has released a trailer and a batch of screenshots from Dirty Dancing The Video Game, a game inspired by the 1987 movie with the same title. You will have the opportunity to experience the life of Baby, learn to dance with the resident dancing couple, Johnny and Penny, and work alongside the team at the renowned Kellerman’s Mountain House Resort. The game will be available during late 2007.