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Sunday Comics: Dead Island In the industry of MMO middleware, the Australian-owned, Micro Forte-spun BigWorld has quite a reputation. While its clients have been limited in the past to the boutique, but highly profitable, Chinese market, it wasn’t long ago (mid-2006) that the software was picked up by Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment for Stargate Worlds, an MMO of the sci-fi show that’s currently in development.
Now BigWorld (the company is actually named after the middleware) has entered into a “strategic partnership” with Global Netoptex Inc (GNi). GNi is, in essence, a hosting business, and the plan is that BigWorld will sell the software while GNi provides the hardware – making the two combined a one-stop shop for MMO developers.
It’d be interesting to find out the pros and cons of buying pre-baked MMO server/client software, considering most developers seem content with making their own. Sounds like an interview in the making…
You can read the full release after the jump.
Avid readers of PC Powerplay will be aware of the fact that editor Timothy C. Best shipped off to Perth last month, leaving his post on the PC gaming magazine. Associate Editor Anthony Fordham has since filled the role and, if you cast your mind back four years ago, you’ll remember that it’s a position Fordham has held before.
Tim decided that writing about games probably wasn’t as fun as making them. As such, he’s now over at Interzone Games. No doubt he’ll be working on their BigWorld-based and currently nameless MMO.
I recently hit Tim with a few questions regarding his shift from journalism to games development. Hit the jump for the interview!
PS. Any readers of PCPP out there? What do you think of the changing of hands? Probably a better question is: Do you read gaming mags? Let us know.
