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16th December 2009 by Diane

Online games closing in Europe

closing-downAs the European online games market is becoming increasingly competitive, we are starting to see some casualties, games and companies not meeting the success they planned and closing operations or shutting some games down. In the recent weeks, the following closures have been announced, all in the Free to Play category:

  • Italy-based Gametribe portal, operated by Game Media Networks, subsidiary of Digital Bros, a retail videogame distribution company, will be closing down on December 31st. The portal had already lost or not renewed the license for Dekaron from developer GameHi since September. It also operated action online game Infinity, cel-shading MMO Dreams of Mirror Online (DOMO) and football session game Kicks Online.
  • UK and Spain-based company Rourke Online has seen its portal Key2Play and game servers disconnected after failing to pay for the hosting at the end of November. They were operating F2P MMOs Priston Tale 2 and Ys Online. Ys Online’s service termination had already been announced.

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12th December 2009 by Thomas

ICO’s One-Year Blogiversary!

istock_000009325754xsmallIt seems like only yesterday that we began our love/hate relationship with WordPress, but it’s been a year already! Times have changed for us since then, too. When we set up the blog a year ago, we were cautious about setting expectations for it since we’re very busy most of the time, but we have a lot to share and really wanted to make it work. After a year’s experience with it we’ve learned a few things, and we’re making a little change.

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