GDC08: Gaia Online launching casual MMO

by Elizabeth Harper Feb 19th 2008 at 8:42PM

Filed under: Events, real-world, New titles, Browser, Casual, Gaia Online

At GDC this afternoon Gaia Online's Craig Sherman announced that Gaia is developing a free, flash-based to play casual MMO. Though you may presume this is just another web-based casual game, Sherman says it will be a "real MMO." It will be launching this summer and Gaia expects it to become one of the top MMOs in the world within the first few months -- after all, they already have a user-base of 5 million players who want this kind of game play, so they aren't starting from scratch. Sherman wouldn't give us a name for the game (saying that they'd solicited names from current Gaia users and received around 20,000 responses), but ensured us that it would be a full-scale MMO (with combat, etc) with a heavy social aspect. Though we're hungry for more details, summer is only a few months away!

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Eliot said on 12:38AM 2-20-2008

If you're only going to put one link in a post, make it something more useful than a self link.

Paticake said on 2:36AM 2-20-2008

Don't count on anything until they've released it. They've been talking this up for years, and it has yet to manifest.

Frans Charming said on 5:19AM 2-20-2008

Nothing new if you read the Gaia news on the site. They have been working on it for some time, and have screenshots and back stories available.

Ghen said on 8:21AM 2-20-2008

Here's hoping for more instead of less character customization.

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