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Joe Ybarra, one of the founding members of Electronic Arts, has told GamesIndustry.biz that the newly-formed publisher hes now working for can provide a greater sense of connected community than other MMO publishers currently offer.
The new publishing company, FireSky, will take responsibility for bringing forthcoming MMO Stargate Worlds to the market, and is a subsidiary of Cheyenne Mountain Studios.
The company will pioneer the development of its SNAP (Social Networks At Play) concept, and has four studios currently working on projects, although Stargate Worlds is the only one of those announced so far.
We undertook the creation of the FireSky publishing label in order to provide us with an opportunity to start delivering products that were characterising as SNAP games, Ybarra stated.
The concept behind this is that we feel theres an opportunity in the market place for us to deliver a more robust experience between both social networking types of applications, like MySpace or Facebook, together with triple-A, high-end gaming as well as other forms of gaming as well - and integrate the two into one destination portal that we'll provide to customers.
A lot of the strategy for why we want to do that, comes down to that for an MMO, its really important to recognise that we provide a service to our customers and that it's a top-to-bottom experience that theyre going to enjoy - that's more than just the game.
Reacting to that concept, we felt that as long as we were providing great customer care, a good infrastructure, good pricing models and various other things, it would also be good if we could provide a way for the customers to interact with each other outside of the game.
In doing so, what we also wanted to do was deliver a wider range of content than just the MMO products, like Stargate Worlds, and to that end we have four studios now that are producing products, and we're in the process now of trying to find strategies from a publishing standpoint to integrate those products and deliver the social networking elements.
Ybarra, who has been named as FireSkys senior VP of strategic operations, is joined by fellow veteran industry figure Rod Nakamoto, who has been appointed to the role of senior VP of product development while Tim Jenson is the companys CEO.
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Stargate: The Ark of Truth UK TV Airing
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If your from the UK, you maybe happy to know that the direct to DVD movie Stargate: The Ark of Truth will air on Sky One this Easter Monday at 8pm straight after the second part of Terry Pratchetts The Colour of Magic which starts at 6pm.
It is released on DVD in the UK on April 11th if people are unsure when it was going to be released.
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SG-1 Radio moves to Saturdays
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Check it out: http://sg1-radio.com/
Cheers,
Acidrain
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Wraith Get Serious Upgrades For 'Atlantis' Season 4
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After three full seasons, the Wraith -- the big bad guys of the Pegasus Galaxy -- still have a place in the "Stargate: Atlantis" universe. It's just that now, they're getting a bit bigger, and even more bad.
New sets have been built featuring a much sleeker look for the life-sucking villains, but it seems only certain members of the cast and crew even know what they look like.
Read on............
http://www.syfyportal.com/news423832.html
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'SG-1' Series Finale Draws An Audience - PLUS: 'Atlantis' also delivers viewers
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Those who believe that after 10 years on the air “Stargate SG-1” is nothing but a dying animal are sadly mistaken. Not only is the series moving into the land of television movies, but the series finale made an impact by bringing in more viewers from key demographics than any other competing show.
In a press release from the SciFi Channel, “Unending” delivered a 1.7 household rating, translating to approximately 1.2 million viewers from 25-54 years of age and 1.1 million from 18-49. The episode achieved a total of 2.2 million viewers making it the highest rated episode since part one of "The Quest" last year.
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http://www.syfyportal.com/news423823.html
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