Smart’s studio 3000AD has announced Galactic Command Online. Going by the feature list, GCO is essentially Smart’s last 100 games condensed into MMO form.

You can’t argue his style of game is ripe for an MMO treatment, though the man himself is reluctant to place Galactic Command Online in the same genre as the likes of World of Warcraft. In his words: “…The game isn’t really an MMO in that sense of the word (it’s not more an MMO than APB, Global Agenda, Crimecraft etc) but unfortunately thats the terminology the industry seems to have stuck with – as are we”.

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EA’s decided to mix chunks of Mythic and Bioware to create a new group to handle the publisher’s RPG and MMO projects, with Bioware’s Ray Muzyka manning the helm. No doubt Bioware’s Star Wars MMO was a catalyst for the move.
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