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Doctor Who: Worlds of Time Free-To-Play MMO Will EXTERMINATE Your Leisure Time

by James Plafke | 11:05 am, February 25th

The BBC and developer Three Rings, who are best known for the oddly fun Puzzle Pirates, have teamed up like a Time Lord and a man of the 51st century and announced they’ll be developing a free-to-play MMO based on Doctor Who, currently titled Doctor Who: Worlds of Time. Three Rings promises to divulge more details next week at GDC 2011, though the rest of us already know the details since we hopped in our fake police boxes and time traveled to the conference to get the details. No, none of us time traveled to the release date and played the game, because we all enjoy anxiously waiting in anticipation rather than playing actual games. From the press release:

“The game allows players to enter the TARDIS and be set a challenge by the mysterious Time Lord to help him defend civilized culture against infamous Doctor Who enemies.”

Apparently, the Doctor will be getting even less discriminating with the way he chooses companions, i.e. anyone who signs up for a game account.

(via Joystiq)

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For the Horde (of Obsessed Children): SpongeBob MMO In Development

by Jamie Block | 5:16 pm, June 9th

It appears that yet another random franchise is getting an MMO game. This time, it’s SpongeBob SquarePants. MTV Asia and GigaMedia are teaming up to develop and publish the game, which will launch in 2011 for gamers in China, Korea, India, Japan, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.

The game will be free to play, but don’t worry, it’ll still sap your money with an online store from which you can buy all sorts of unnecessary accessories. It’s a shame this isn’t coming to (and from) the United States, because it might just be the boost our economy needs.

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Evony Promises Less Skanky Ads – We’ll Believe It When We See It

by Susana Polo | 2:26 pm, May 15th

If you spend much time on the internet, you’ve probably seen them. The ads for the free-t0-play strategy MMO Evony that, instead of featuring, you know, gameplay or review quotes, feature boobs. And more boobs. I know I’m not the only one who first assumed that it was some kind of fantasy themed sex game, porn site, or social network.

Well, Evony has apparently volunteered to clean up its own act. In a statement to Gamasutra, they said:

Moving forward – based on community feedback as well as an in-depth look at advertising effectiveness – we are employing an ad campaign that focuses on the gameplay and features of Evony: Age II.

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World of Warcraft Nets Tens of Millions of Dollars by Selling … Glittery Sparkle Ponies?

by Andrew Cedotal | 2:46 pm, April 16th

Finally marrying MMO-related obsessiveness to infantile consumer taste, Blizzard is now making millions selling World of Warcraft players…shimmering space ponies?

Has online gaming’s biggest player finally turned itself into Farmville?

Blizzard has long been in the practice of selling “pets,” which are ornamental creatures that follow players around the gameworld. But the Celestial Steed is the first “mount” (read: ridable animal friend!) which must be acquired through grubby lucre rather than honest-to-god in-game effort.

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