Reconstructing the fall of game developer Flagship Studios
Flagship Studios was one of the most ambitious game development studios started in recent years. It launched a critically acclaimed game, Hellgate: London, in November, 2007 that had garnered more than 60 game review magazine covers.
The game sold more than 450,000 copies (at $50 each, that’s $22.5 million at retail) But by August, 2008, it was out of business.
Stephen Goldstein, former director of business development and general counsel of Flagship, said in a talk at… Continue Reading
Roundup: Amazon Web services go down, MySpace to join OpenID and more
Here’s the latest action:
Amazon Web services go down over the weekend — The problems crippled messaging service Twitter and many other sites.
MySpace to join OpenID? — TechCrunch’s sources say the social networking site will join the OpenID initiative, which allows one login to work across multiple sites, later this week. If so, it would be the second-largest OpenID implementation ever, second only to Yahoo.
The New York Times and LinkedIn forge a content partnership — Users of the business-oriented… Continue Reading