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It takes a certain kind of person to deny any wrongdoing when they are caught with their hand in the cookie jar, while their hand is still in the jar. But once you’re caught, you might as well try to save face and play the victim, right? With the lawsuit moving forward by Wargaming.net over [...]
Archive for the ‘Killing MMOs’ Category
Wargaming Sues Chinese Developer Over World of Tanks Ripoff
May 10th, 2013 
Omali There are only two certainties in life: Death, and that if there is a product in existence, China has ripped it off and claimed it as its own. Now you can find a ripoff of just about anything in China, including MMO Fallout as I recently discovered. Litigation against these companies is generally extremely difficult, [...]
Night Cap: Does Account Expiration Inspire You?
April 26th, 2013 Omali Tonight’s night cap asks the question: Are you intimidated by threats of account deletion? Owing to how rare it is to find a company that is actually willing to delete characters/accounts these days, you might occasionally find an email in your inbox stating “thank you for playing, but due to inactivity your account/characters will be [...]
Paragon Studios Discusses Its Closure
April 10th, 2013 Omali It’s been five months since City of Heroes shut down, and the more we hear about the events surrounding the closure of Paragon Studios, the less realistic that NCSoft’s explanation that they had “exhausted all options” seems to become. Gamasutra has published a very informative piece on the closing of Paragon Studios, detailing how Paragon [...]
Disney Shuts Down LucasArts
April 3rd, 2013 Omali In a truly disappointing move, Disney has confirmed to Game Informer that the game publishing subsidiary LucasArts has been shut down, accompanied by an expected number of layoffs associated with such a change. Instead, LucasArts will move toward licensing rather than developing games based on the Star Wars franchise. “After evaluating our position in the [...]
Dungeon Fighter Online Shutting Down In North America
April 2nd, 2013 Omali Dungeon Fighter Online launched in 2009 in North America and despite some complaints about issues with gold spam, it was actually a fun game to play. Despite the shortcomings of gold farmers and hackers, DFO was a solid side scrolling hack and slash game, one that probably deserved a much warmer reception than it apparently [...]
Gamigo Shutting Down Grimlands Development
March 22nd, 2013 Omali Gamigo’s upcoming MMO shooter Grimlands has announced that it is setting development. In a news post on the game’s website today, Gamigo has revealed that Grimlands is the unfortunate victim of a shift in company focus, with less priority placed on high-risk and in-house developed projects, and putting more focus on publishing games. The announcement [...]
RealU Lays Off Most Staff, Gamigo Seeks New Developer
March 7th, 2013 Omali Otherland is an upcoming MMO based on the book series of the same name, written by Tad Williams. The game is being developed by RealU, and published by Gamigo. At least it was, recent rumors that RealU has laid off most of its staff were confirmed by a Community Manager over at the Otherland official [...]
Checking Up: Whatever Happened To Huxley?
March 3rd, 2013 Omali Every once in a while I come across an MMO here at MMO Fallout and think to myself, “oh yea, whatever happened to that game? It never launched, or if it did I certainly haven’t heard anything about it.” Huxley is just that MMO. In fact, the last time we discussed Huxley here at MMO [...]
Wrath of Heroes To Shut Down, Mythic Denies Refunds
February 27th, 2013 Omali Eventually someone will realize that despite the success of games like League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, and Valve’s DOTA 2, the MOBA genre is not the next line of games where companies can put out any product and simply sit back and watch the money print itself. Originally announced in 2011, Wrath of Heroes [...]
