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Interview: Everything You Could Want to Know about Infinite Crisis

GodisaGeek: "Infinite Crisis is WB Games’ answer to the growing popularity of the MOBA. In a decidedly smart approach, they’ve decided to use their licenses to the DC Universe to hopefully create a more engaging and dynamic game than we’ve ever seen before. Will it have what it takes? We sat down with the fine folks at Turbine, the development team behind the project, to see what we could discover.

What we discovered is that the genre is something they know more than a thing or two about. Throughout the interview, we will be referring to the following map of Coast City."

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What It’s Like to Work On a Video Game Flop

VICE speak to developers behind Infinite Crisis and Hellgate: London about when best-laid plans go so very wrong.

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Gone too soon: The eSports we wish were still here

Infinite Crisis is closing its doors next month, snuffing out another spectator eSport all too soon - a new article takes a look at a handful of other eSports that have either been left out to dry or eclipsed by superior sequels.

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Why Did Infinite Crisis Fail?

One of the more interesting features of mmo games is that, just like a living person, they go through a life cycle. In the beginning, there's the development and testing phases. Then the game springs into the world to make its mark. After a number of years, the game begins to fade as the player population dwindles. Finally, there's the final end when the game shuts down. Normally such a journey takes quite a few years, normally a decade, to go through this cycle, but such was not the case with Infinite Crisis. The DC comics-themed moba recently let their players know that the game was shutting down in August despite the fact that the moba just officially launched roughly two months ago. Why did Infinite Crisis fail?

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