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Wage Wars will be an online game, 8 and may be digitally distributed. 6
6. Lee, Matt (03/07/2007). Email to MoxCo. Executive. ‘ Citizen Siege correspondence’. Oddworld Forums.
8. Lanning, Lorne (05/09/2007). ‘ Lorne Lanning’, special feature. CGSociety.
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He talked about online games in his most recent interview, with Oblio and Phong at Massive Black’s Revelations workshop. I haven’t yet transcribed it, and I don’t feel like sitting through all 40 minutes of it right now, so from memory: he was talking about how to stay alive in the gaming industry, you really need to be aware of exactly what kind of games are economically viable. Right now developers are getting out of console gaming because there’s too little to be made there, what with the increasingly complicated hardware and software structures that need to worked around. The possible exception to this is the Wii, whose toolset is built up from the Gamecube’s and not completely reinvented like its rivals’. Therefore more developers are turning to online gaming.