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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA--Online gaming has been "the next big thing"
for years now, and the success stories are beginning to show their
impact on the industry. From Counter-Strike to World of Warcraft,
breakthrough games are piling up, increasingly making some form of
connectivity a mandatory feature for upcoming products.
Last night, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion featuring a few
industry heavyweights to discuss the changing landscape of game design
in light of an online world. The lineup gathered to discuss "The Era of
Connected Gaming - An Inside Look At An Industry On Revolution"
included Lars Butler, former vice president of global online for
Electronic Arts and current CEO of the upstart TWN; Laurent Detoc,
president of Ubisoft North America; Raph Koster, chief creative officer
of Sony Online Entertainment; and Peter Moore, corporate vice president
of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business. The panel was
moderated by GameSpot cofounder and senior vice president of CNET
Networks' games and entertainment division, Vince Broady.
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Rest here: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6144016.html
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The
single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed
for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and
abnormal."
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"Linear
entertainment in single-player is to media what masturbation is to
sex," Butler said. "It'll always be there, but it is not the real
experience."
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"Calling
[online-connected games] revolutionary is absolutely on the ball. I
think that most companies that are still going strong today will wake
up tomorrow as if they've
been hit by a truck. It is such a fundamental shift in the industry."
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