Comments on: Gaming News: Earth Eternal for sale, Layoffs at APB dev, Spellborn closes down, Rage runs on an iPhone, Valve trademarks DotA, Digital Sales chart for the UK http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/gaming-news-earth-eternal-for-sale-layoffs-at-apb-dev-spellborn-closes-down-rage-runs-on-an-iphone-valve-trademarks-dota-digital-sales-chart-for-the-uk/ MMOs and game design Fri, 17 May 2013 13:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/gaming-news-earth-eternal-for-sale-layoffs-at-apb-dev-spellborn-closes-down-rage-runs-on-an-iphone-valve-trademarks-dota-digital-sales-chart-for-the-uk/#comment-10699 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:55:04 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4313#comment-10699 Thanks for the update (my first guess is Disney :P )

]]> By: Dai http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/gaming-news-earth-eternal-for-sale-layoffs-at-apb-dev-spellborn-closes-down-rage-runs-on-an-iphone-valve-trademarks-dota-digital-sales-chart-for-the-uk/#comment-10698 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:53:03 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4313#comment-10698 just to update on the earth eternal news, it has been successfully bought, but the remain SparkPlay Media staff won’t share who has bought the MMO until the contract has been signed in a week or so. but the new company have said that they will be keeping some of the staff that was laid off around for the running of the game, only makes sense really. anyways here is the exact text from the earth eternal player forums.

Well, the good news is that we had many parties bidding on EE. The auction for it ended today and the winner is a company most or all of you have heard of. I can’t tell you who it is yet, and you can take whatever your first five guesses are and throw them out, as it’s not any of them. I can’t release who it is until the contract is completed and signed (another week at least), but in the meantime the game and forums will be here and all the free stuff in the cash shop will remain free for the short-term future.

There’s a good chance that existing (or recently laid off, rather) SPM folks will be involved in the game again too! I’m probably going to do some consulting work for the company, and they want the help of other SPM staff members too I think. The caveat is that all is still kind of uncertain. They moved astonishingly quickly for a company their size, and even they don’t quite know what they’re going to do with EE and the engine yet. They need a few days to process and figure things out.

Anyway, that’s the news for now. I’m pretty happy this company won the bidding, as I think they have the resources and the pre-existing audience to help make EE a success.

Sincerely,

Matt Mihaly, CEO Sparkplay Media (a funny title for someone who currently has one employee beside himself)

this is great news for the people who play and enjoy earth eternal has the little game has so much potential, and the community is so much more compared to some F2P MMO’s around. anyways just thought i would update anyone interested.
Thanks.

]]> By: Stabs http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/gaming-news-earth-eternal-for-sale-layoffs-at-apb-dev-spellborn-closes-down-rage-runs-on-an-iphone-valve-trademarks-dota-digital-sales-chart-for-the-uk/#comment-10643 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:58:58 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4313#comment-10643 Last time I looked Atari was in a complicated mess of rival law suits. Iirc having started with a spat between them and Turbine it mushroomed from there. Hasbro has an ongoing suit against Atari.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=220214

Hopefully the legal mess won’t impact the new game adversely but I think they’d be crazy not to get it sorted before launching the new game and that they’d be advised to settle before even announcing it

]]> By: gravity http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/gaming-news-earth-eternal-for-sale-layoffs-at-apb-dev-spellborn-closes-down-rage-runs-on-an-iphone-valve-trademarks-dota-digital-sales-chart-for-the-uk/#comment-10640 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:26:57 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4313#comment-10640 EE was always a questionable design in my opinion. I know Mihaly (founder) from when I played Acahea.

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