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3 fictional universes that should go MMO

It’s really easy to imagine a well-established fictional world as an MMO. Any imaginative world beyond our own has factions, races, neat archetypes and cities that could be strung together into another WoW clone. As much as we all would like to see innovation beyond that, here’s my top three “why by Odin’s raven does this not exist?” contenders for fictional universes that haven’t already been made into MMO’s. Expect the “verse” suffix attached inccorectly to many words and plenty of foolish optimism.

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3 fictional universes that should go MMO

It’s really easy to imagine a well-established fictional world as an MMO. Any imaginative world beyond our own has factions, races, neat archetypes and cities that could be strung together into another WoW clone. As much as we all would like to see innovation beyond that, here’s my top three “why by Odin’s raven does this not exist?” contenders for fictional universes that haven’t already been made into MMO’s. Expect the “verse” suffix attached inccorectly to many words and plenty of foolish optimism.

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Living with a Prosthetic Avatar

Around six months ago I enrolled in a theology class known as “The Problem of God”. Although my professor was a Pastor and my college a Catholic institution, the issues we tackled were bravely secular and refreshingly open-minded. My professor

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Living with a Prosthetic Avatar

Around six months ago I enrolled in a theology class known as “The Problem of God”. Although my professor was a Pastor and my college a Catholic institution, the issues we tackled were bravely secular and refreshingly open-minded. My professor

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A protagonist is NOT you

Most protagonists are empty, hollow shells in need of something to fill them. Thus was our verdict, as handled by our own Stefan Samurai (this is the link to which this article is a response, by the way… CLICK IT!). What

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A protagonist is NOT you

Most protagonists are empty, hollow shells in need of something to fill them. Thus was our verdict, as handled by our own Stefan Samurai (this is the link to which this article is a response, by the way… CLICK IT!). What

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Thoughts on Nonplayer

Fun fact: I don’t read comics; they’ve never captured my interest much. Nonplayer though–this caught my eye right away, and it’s easy to see why. Yes, I’m very superficial. You throw something like the picture above my way, and I’ll

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Thoughts on Nonplayer

Fun fact: I don’t read comics; they’ve never captured my interest much. Nonplayer though–this caught my eye right away, and it’s easy to see why. Yes, I’m very superficial. You throw something like the picture above my way, and I’ll

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Weekend Note: Uncharted Awe

Things! They happened last week! More things! They are happening right now. I will don last week as the ‘week of trailers,’ because we posted lots of those in our news items. You see children, the awesome marketing tactic used

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Weekend Note: Uncharted Awe

Things! They happened last week! More things! They are happening right now. I will don last week as the ‘week of trailers,’ because we posted lots of those in our news items. You see children, the awesome marketing tactic used

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Movie Games Suck

Tell you something you don’t know, you say? Okay. Apparently James Spawn of Hitler Cameron thinks the same thing). He makes no…well, he makes a lot of excuses about why the Avatar game was a terrible game critically and commercially,

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Movie Games Suck

Tell you something you don’t know, you say? Okay. Apparently James Spawn of Hitler Cameron thinks the same thing). He makes no…well, he makes a lot of excuses about why the Avatar game was a terrible game critically and commercially,

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