Green Monster Games/38 Studios (whatever they're called now) is located like 100 yards from my house, in Maynard, MA. They have a pretty cool logo, but they tinted all the windows to their office black so you can't see inside.

What are they hiding???

wallapuctus

Wow, it's CNN and has video game in the title but no one got shot! *applauds CNN*

ShawnC++

@swirldude: If by "interesting" you mean "bombastic, condescending, egomanical prick" then yes, he's been pretty interesting!

VeeKaChu

Comprehending the sentence "Curt Schilling is retiring to work on an MMO" must be the fastest I've ever gone from smile to facepalm. Damn adverbial clauses...

heliophage

From what I understand Schilling is a grinder type MMORPG player.

SSJPabs

Curt Schilling has been an interest guy to follow over the past few years, but this still came out of left field to me.

@dechire: Stick around for Monday, will you?

swirldude

@dechire: You must be new here.

AGiES

@dechire: A baseball star announcing he's retiring to focus on game development isn't news for a game blog? Wha!?? O_o

jayntampa

Hopefully their eventual game is a sandbox that lets you blog and sound off on EVERYTHING THAT HAPENS TO ANYONE EVER. (this is a mockery of Schilling's blogging diarrhea, not Kotaku, this disclaimer is provided since this is a comment on a blog)

HAGE

this is not news

dechire

amazing

Dimipapa

Very very old news.

I remember reading his excerpt on Gamepro magazine about him building a new mmo even before the 2004 choke.

It even had couple screenshots of the office with an artist rendering some troll like figure on a pc.

Ah I miss the days when C. schilling used to review everquest expansions as guest editor in gamepro.

On another note, he needs to get his hands off gaming and lose that weight.

I belive if he loses 10 lbs, he gets extra 2 million dollars as his incentive.

Fyren

Schilling is a huge gamer, I live in Boston so I hear about it a lot. He is a loyal EQ player and is really into table top games as well. His company site is www.38studios.com . Check it out, pretty legit.

Foggynotion

it would be cool to have a gm feature. then i could be steinbrenner and run a franchise into the ground. Mechanically, it would be interesting to see if you could really do a baseball MMO since a full game takes so long. Team vs. Team perhaps?

nissan288

It won't be an official MLB MMO unless I can accidently use my "corked" bat during a game or be given steroids from my trainer without my consent.

Hiero Glyph

I used to like him when he was on the Diamondbacks. lol No that is awesome that he has a plan for himself after baseball. Never knew he was into MMO's.

ballaboy311

Schilling was one of the much-touted 'celebrity' EverQuest players, way back when MMOs weren't mainstream yet. So he's more familiar with the genre than a lot of gamers. More power to him.

jettokisora

I bet you'll be able to throw object at enemies.

sadkermit

Bloody Sock....the Game!!!

FarmboyinJapan

oh thats the one announced a while ago working with Tod McChashin

Darkedge

Curt Schilling mmorpg - Split Finger Fastball -80hp

indiemike

In a related story, Warren Spector's been down at the Devil Rays training camp trying out for second base.

sethmad

curious as to whether he saw UBO, felt annoyed at Darrel Evans, and now needs to make something that doesn't suck after 4 years of development.

Cyntalan

Hey Curt, is 38studios hiring?

ereusch

I am all for it why not. shows he wont be bounded by the strains of sports casting.

Streeks1984

I would just like to say the expression on his face in that picture is hilarious.

Gouki4u

@FarmboyinJapan: Haha... nice one

Can't wait for the Curt Schilling and Todd Pratt MMO collaboration. I remember Pratt playing Ultima Online and heard that he got all types of royalties from Origins at the time, castle included.

Trowble

I'm not an MMO player myself, but Schilling said in an interview awhile ago that he wants his game to be, basically, platform neutral. That you should be able to check in with your character and the game world from handheld devices like your phone, even if you can't play the game properly. Sounds pretty interesting to me, but I wouldn't expect any less from Scythehands Voxslayer.

Dudes_McGee

I'm personally surprised he didn't retire last season. Leave on a high note after the series win.

Archetype

@wallapuctus:
I know what you mean, I work in the next building over (2 Clock Tower) and they seem so mysterious. I never see much activity walking around the place. I don't think I've ever even noticed an employee (unlike Monster.com which basically populates downtown maynard during the day). They don't even accept applications for employment (my friend wants to work there).

Humajime

But, dude, he's working on the game with R. A. Salvatore (of D&D Dark Elf novel fame) and Todd (Spawn and a shitload of toys) McFarlane. That's like a fanboy dream team!

AlKusanagi

Curt is a jerk 1, and 2 he can make all the baseball games he wants... for the PC.

Strider-No.9

Hey, Schilling, how's Bush working out for you? Still think it was a good idea?

Strangelove

OH, reading this it makes much more sense then the title which I thought was implying he was going to retire to give himself over to his EQ2 addiction and gain 300 pounds playing it non-stop.

amusedtoe

@AlKusanagi: Salvatore, sure. Todd is a huge douche though. [en.wikipedia.org]
What that link maybe doesn't make entirely clear is Todd's hypocrisy as he was a vocal proponent of creators owning the rights to their own creations when he made the break from Marvel to form Image.

juv3nal

Wasn't this last year's news? I mean, that's when he started building the company. Is the news here that he's going to work at his company?

Dullspork

I remember hearing about this a while ago. I think they interviewed him on X-Play.(Yes, I still do watch X-Play.)

KM91

Schilling has been playing hardcore EQ and EQ2 for years.I had heard he started an MMO development company last year so it's no surprize that he'll be developing his own mmo after his last season with the Sox.

SUGARAY

Putting my own hatred aside for Schilling, I don't know if he'll ever go through with this. As EMTEEZ said, he talks A LOT. He's known for his yapping, so I question how serious he is about this- I'd put my money on him making a baseball game, but no going so far as an MMO.

PurpleMonkey

Great player, a bit of a tooly-tool as a person. He's been yapping on about this game for a while now (and he sure does love to yap on, lemme tell ya).

EmTeeZ

You morons need to stop badmouthing Schilling.

Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS will go down in history as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, pitching performance in the history of the game. The guy put his career and future health on the line so we, the long-suffering, could finally see them win it all (there's video of me sobbing when the last out of the 2004 WS was recorded).

Americana