Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Image via Manticore's blog, comparing Core's creator-company revenue split to Roblox's split CEO of Manticore Frederic Descamps just announced a new monetization structure for people who develop games on Core, its new Unreal-based, Epic-funded user-generated game development platform, and it reads very much like a direct attack on Roblox. Because while Roblox has shown seriously…
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If you're one of the many millions waiting for the new open world game Cyberpunk 2077 (I'm debating making the massive download myself), the hands-on reviews are starting to be published — and so far, they seem to lean but positive but mixed. Pros: Beautiful open world, fun gameplay. Cons: Buggy, not as open as…
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Fascinating tidbit from this Forbes profile of hiphop start Travis Scott, on his groundbreaking Fortnite shows earlier this year: The implications of his Fortnite concert quickly became evident. For Epic, it proved that the company was well on track to becoming more than just a maker of video games. For Scott and, really, the entire music industry,…
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Here’s a first look at Book of Travels, a Kickstarter-powered project that’s an MMO but flips our expectations of an MMO on its head. Where we’ve come to expect a massively multiplayer online world, with Book of Travels it’s the world that’s massive, but the number of actual players are, by design, going to be…
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The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores, a new-ish game that I love for iOS and PC/Mac on Steam, is technically a resource-management civilization-building sim. But the gameplay itself is quite different from most any other game in that genre I've ever played. With vibey music and sound effects (the wind, the ocean waves, the ambient/folk loops), a…
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Attention AOC and other Among Us fans: There's a new community-fan, playable version of the hit deception and backstabbing game in VRChat: Click here to play. (No, not the horror-themed fan version of Among Us I mentioned the other week, that's another project still in development.) While this VRChat version of Among Us is faithful…
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If anyone is interested, we are working on a VR Chat map based on #AmongUs Come check it out and join our discord! We would love to know what everyone thinks of it! https://t.co/cCfMGjaLSl#VRChat #VR #amongusfanart #AmongUsMeme pic.twitter.com/lGPtsyE3BN — Shoobly (@Shooobly) September 25, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Among Us, the wacky sci-fi party hit game of deception…
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Pictured: A nightclub experience… in Grand Theft Auto V Online While the "Is Second Life a game?" argument has basically gone since SL launched, reader "0xc0ffea" (who also co-hosts the largest SL community on Reddit) posts a fresh perspective: Whatever SL is on an ontological level, not treating it as a game has contributed to…
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IncrediMarble is a fun new sandbox construction game for iOS where you get to build gigantic marble slide worlds with real time physics, and earn points by adding more and better slides. The more points you earn, the more pieces you win to keep upgrading your slides, and turn them into massively deranged contraptions. (Android…
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I've previously called Core, the new Unreal-based, user-generated game development platform from startup Manticore, as a kind of Fortnite-meets-ROBLOX concoction. So I wasn't surprised at yesterday's news that Epic, publisher of Fortnite and developer Unreal, directly invested in the company: [Core] is getting an injection of $15 million, thanks to a funding round led by Fortnite creator Epic…
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