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Nanovor online battle game opens to the public

Duncan Riley — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:58 +0000

“Online battle game” Nanovor, from the creators of MechWarrior, Shadowrun and Crimson Skies has now opened its doors to the public, offering gameplay that is somewhere between Spore, Pokemon and Fight Club.

According to the official spiel, “Nanovor features nanoscopic monsters that live to fight and fight to live. Nanovor can be trained and evolved into more advanced fighters, expanding their strength and speed. Players collect Nanovor and battle them online with their friends.”

The fighting monsters aside, game play allows players can battle their friends online and strategically choose each attack. Players can also trade or buy new Nanovor with “special in-game currency called Nanocash.”

Nanovor is only available for Microsoft Windows, so if you’re a Mac user you’ll need an install of Windows in Bootcamp of similar. You can download the client here.

Get Revenue-Generating Games For Your Blog

JR — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:47:31 +0000

There’s a new way for you to add revenue-building NBC-based games onto your blog or Web site. Social game developer King has joined forces with online games network Mochi Media to expand its new ad-driven game system for Web publishers. The whole thing is available free of charge.

Mochi Media has already built a revenue-based game system for sites to use. Anyone can create an account and start embedding its ad-supported games. Publishers then receive a portion of the ad revenues based on the plays on their pages. With the King addition, dozens of titles such as “The Biggest Loser,” “Deal or No Deal,” and “1vs100″ are being added into its catalog.

King operates MyGame.com and powers many of the games at Yahoo Games. It also has partnerships with NBC, hence the official game show-based titles.

As for Mochi Media, it bills itself as the “largest online games advertising network.” Aside from King’s titles, it has thousands of titles available for publishers and continues to accept submissions from developers as well.

You can check out the specifics and sign up if you’re so inclined at the Mochi Media site.

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Millions of Chinese Kids Addicted to Online Games

Dominic Rivera — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:44:54 +0000

Millions of young Chinese are addicted to unhealthy online games, a committee of China’s National People’s Congress reported. “Unhealthy” games in Chinese government standard refers to those that feature violence, pornography, and unpatriotic games.

Because of this, the Chinese government is calling for stricter monitoring of “unhealthy” Internet games, recommending that games should automatically log off once a set number of hours of continuous playing is reached. In 2006, Internet game developers were told to install technology that asks, or should we say demand, real name and identification number.

Li Jianguo, vice-chariman of the National People’s Congress said that Internet-addicted teenagers account for about 10 percent of China’s web users. With more than 200 million Internet users in China, that’s millions of “unhealthy” young Chinese and a huge business for “unhealthy” game developers.

But at times, I can’t blame these kids. They need some relaxation after competing at a young age at the Olympics or after a hard-days work manufacturing our cool iPhones or after lip-synching backstage because you’re not cute enough to be shown to the world. Okay, but please, when you relax, no “unhealthy” online games. Go play Halo3, instead.