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Fallen Earth Gen Con Team Gets MEAD!

August 30, 2007

“We just received this photo from Shaun Dean (on the left) with Lead Game Designer Lee Hammock in the Fallen Earth exhibit at Gen Con Indy. You’ll notice between these fellows is a basket with four bottles of home-brewed Mead as a thank you from Shaun (DarkTreader) and his thoughtful mom, Karen Dean (Taelanna). We appreciate the gift and our thanks go out to Shaun and Karen for their kindness, and for their support of Fallen Earth!“

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Written by Erazor · Filed Under Fallen Earth 

Interview with Fallen Earth Lead Game Designer, Lee Hammock

August 29, 2007

Having spoken to both Vivox about their VOIP technology and Icarus Studios about their middleware solution we had a quick chat with Lee Hammock, Lead Game Designer for Fallen Earth, which uses Icarus middleware for its development. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic North America and is at the time of publishing, without a release date. [Source]

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Written by Erazor · Filed Under Fallen Earth 

BioWare adopts Stream Processing Engine

August 8, 2007

BioWare has licensed StreamBase’s Stream Processing Engine for use in it’s unannounced MMO. StreamBase has previously provided Complex Event Processing software to financial institutions as well as the government and military sectors.

Complex event processing, is a new technology where a software system supervises events streaming through the enterprise’s software infrastructure. Complex event processing has also caught the attention of U.S. intelligence agencies, which have made a strategic investment in Lexington, based StreamBase Systems through In-Q-Tel, the independent investment firm that supports technologies of interest to the CIA. The amount was not disclosed.

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Written by Erazor · Filed Under BioWare, KotOR MMO 

World of Starcraft not in the works

August 4, 2007

Blizzard’s Chris Metzen confirmed that the company is currently not developing World of StarCraft. So while “Team 3″ is most likely working on an MMO (given the recent next-gen MMO related Job openings at Blizzard) it is based on a different IP. [Full story]

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Written by Erazor · Filed Under Blizzard, World of Starcraft 

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