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There’s a new entrant in the rapidly growing market for retail cards and virtual goods for online games today: the Zeevex Virtual Currency Exchange. The coin of the realm is Zeev Tokens, which can be purchased via retail cards sold at thousands of brick-and-mortar stores, redeemed and stored online, where it can be used to [...]

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Come July, Atlanta-based Zeevex is going to start selling its Xtreme Online Game Card in more than 20,000 brick-and-mortar retailers in the U.S. thanks to a distribution partnership with InComm, providing a way for gamers to buy virtual currency offline to redeem their online value through the Zeevex website at a later stage. By doing [...]

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Guest writer Kevin Dudenbostel recently paid a visit to Hi-Rez Studios to get a preview of their upcoming MMOFPS Global Agenda. Read on for his impressions og the game and of the team behind it.
When The MMO Gamer was invited to visit Hi-Rez Studios for a sneak peak at their upcoming game, Global Agenda, I [...]

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In the current economic climate, it’s hard to find a company with good news to share. And the volatile MMO business might be the last place you’d look.
Yet Iceland-headquartered CCP, developer of EVE Online, is not just healthy, but growing, seeking 60 new hires, says North America president Mike Tinney. “We’re in a pretty [...]

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Georgia really wants game developers to come to their state, so much so that free rent is being offered at a new facility.
The Creative Coast Alliance (TCCa) and the Savannah Economic Development Authority (SEDA) today announced a deal for up to one year of free rent in the Game Development and Digital Media Center. The [...]

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An Insider’s View of the Making of Fusion Fall
Monday, March 9
3:00 – 4:30
Skiles 002
Join us for a roundtable discussion with the designers of the FusionFall MMOG as they discuss how this complex game,
merging a variety of diverse cartoon properties was developed by a multi-national team.
Chris Waldron, Game Producer
Sam Lewis, Lead Game Designer
Mario Piedra, Creative Director
Matthew [...]

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Innovative game architecture combines fast-action character creation and personal interaction on a massive scale, eliminating geographic and server constraints —
ATLANTA – (February 24, 2009) – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today its Performance IP™ network and Managed Server hosting services are [...]

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It’s an amazing and intimate conference in which the industry’s brightest stars come to Savannah for two days of talks, dinners and a ridiculous amount of southern hospitality.
Registration is only $50 for the general public for two days.
Speakers are still being announced (as I get their bios and profiles in), but the line up [...]

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In this current economic situation, developers and publishers alike are forced to downsize their staff. The general perceptions of a recession-proof industry are incorrect. Fortunately, while the major players in the video game industry are taking difficult hits, the independent studios are quietly toiling to develop new titles.
Hi-Rez is developing a new MMO called [...]

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By Will Freeman
February 13, 2009
As EVE Online continues its new promotional push, and prepares a free expansion and a debut boxed release, we spoke with the game’s in-game economist Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson.
Develop: You’ve got a very unusual job. For our readers that don’t know about your role, what are you responsible for in the EVE [...]

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