At this year's Gamescom, Bengt caught up with Rune Vendler and Hugh Grimley to find out how Gameglobe is shaping up, and to discover what kind of the content the growing community is already making for the game that is now in closed beta.
In our interview we discuss how gamers are making use of the tools provided them ("I like it when they don't respect our rules, but they set their own rules in there. I like that kind of thing"), where they are with development ("We've been in closed beta for about eight weeks now. It's been going really, really well. We've been letting more and more people in every week, and they've been making so much content. It's fun to see them outpacing us, but now we can't keep up, there's too many great creators out there already"), and giving gamers the freedom to create whatever they want ("One of the things we were worried about, with user generated content you are giving people a lot of freedom. So what will happen? Will they misbehave with that freedom? So one of the most positive experiences is that they haven't misbehaved, they actually do want to create good content").
GG3 finds out that Square Enix halted its free game service, Core Online, over a month ago, without really making that decision public. This has axed access to free versions of Tomb Raider and Hitman, but also effectively cancelled their LittleBigPlanet rendition called GameGlobe. No more freebies.
Square Enix and Bigpoint have just announced that the highly anticipated Christmas theme is now available for the innovative MMO, Gameglobe. The latest update for the game provides a variety of Christmas themed items and decorations such as presents, snowmen and even some new vehicles and weapons.
The Mercenaries theme is fully loaded with new enemies, buildings, weapons and hazards including barbed wire, machetes, explosives and shotguns. It even has an 8-barreled minigun! Everything you need to make a game with real firepower!
