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unusual facts about massively multiplayer online game


Doug Glanville

He is an avid MMOG (Massively multiplayer online game) player along with former teammate Curt Schilling.


Andrew Probert

On February 6, 2006, Perpetual Entertainment and CBS Media announced that Probert had been employed as an initial design consultant for the first incarnation of the MMOG Star Trek Online.

Anna Drijver

In the same year Anna sang the role of Aphrodite (goddess of love) in the Dutch version of the video game God of War III and did voice acting for the action-MMO game The Chronicles of Spellborn.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer video games

On September 3, 2008, Multiverse announced a MMO based in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe.

Exit Games

Exit Games is a German venture capital financed company, founded in 2003, with offices in Hamburg and Portland offering a multiplayer engine for cross-platform realtime multiplayer games and massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) on various technological platforms, including mobile, PC and consoles.

Lodestone Games

Before the game could be finished Sony Online Entertainment halted the production and re-tasked Lodestone to develop network hosting technology as well as a real-time weather system for the massively multiplayer online game PlanetSide.

ManagerZone

ManagerZone, also known as MZ, is a massively multiplayer online browser-based sports game by the Swedish developer Power Challenge.

National Geographic Animal Jam

National Geographic Animal Jam is a massively multiplayer online game launched in 2010 by Smart Bomb Interactive, in partnership with the National Geographic Society.

ZeniMax Online Studios

ZeniMax Online Studios was officially formed in 2007 by ZeniMax Media, and is headed by Matt Firor, a MMOG designer and an 11-year veteran of Mythic Entertainment.


see also

Game studies

In her book Play Between Worlds, T. L. Taylor (2006) recounts her experience playing the massively multiplayer online game, Everquest.

J. Todd Coleman

March 2011, named the #1 Most Influential person In the Massively Multiplayer Online game industry by Beckett Massive Gamer Magazine, a Beckett Media publication.

Online identity

Recently, a user of a massively multiplayer online game called Everquest, which is owned by Sony Online Entertainment, Inc., attempted to sell his Everquest identity on eBay.