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Sci-Fi Channel MMO
Post Date: Jun 2, 2008
Category: Games -> MMO
Imagine playing a massively multiplayer online game where the actions of you and your friends help shape the storyline of an ongoing television series. That's exactly what the Sci Fi Channel has planned for 2010, as they work with game developer Trion World Network to create the ultimate merging of the TV and gaming mediums.

"A television show that is on once a week isn't enough. The fans today want the experience to go beyond that," Howe said. "For example, we can tell them that there will be an alien invasion at a certain place in the game, at a certain time, and to be there with all their friends and be ready. The outcome depends on them. And then that battle will be part of the universe in the show."

Sci Fi had originally planned to do something similar with their hit Battlestar Galactica, though decided to start fresh in order to create a world in which the players decide who the heroes and villains are.

(Continuation Source: http://www.arnsteinlarsen.no/?p=16082)
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      ɤgreengamer

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      this sounds interesting- does this mean that the Hero's and villan's from the TV show will be player characters that had an impact on the event?
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      06.03.08 1:12 am
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          That's what it -sounds- like to me, I could be wrong...but I hope not.
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          06.03.08 2:26 pm
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              That would be a bit tough from the TV show point of view- I'd like to see how they pull that off. But if playing an MMO means theres a chance my character could turn on on TV then I'd have to dump WoW for awhile. Great tagline btw San.
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              06.03.08 2:55 pm
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            Oh yes, I heard something about this last year. It could be quite interesting.
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            06.03.08 11:41 am
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              This has the potential to be either a brilliant success...or an abysmal failure. Either way, it should provide us with a TRUCKLOAD of entertainment!!!

              Hopefully my computer will be working again by 2010....:cry:
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              06.12.08 10:21 pm
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