Massively Multiplayer: Gaming In The New Millennium

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There's the possibility of a new game company rising in Italy, but it could still be some years from this point. The possibility of butterflies in that department are still there though. It's certainly one of the more likely spots for a potential TTL original game company.
 
Yeah, Mario's homeland should have a good video game company.
Yeah for that asking europeans like @Neoteros more information, i knew about spain(family), UK(Rare,etc) and how Ubisoft regional subsidiaries work as increase workforce and keep cost at bay(yeah outsourcing, but that is how economics work), but nobody say anything about italy, and italy have pretty good techical colleges, yeah something would be come, specially as the new millenium boom is just starting...
 
Mmmm....it'd take a bit of time to get some satisfactory answers for the European questions...in the meantime, any opinions on GTA: Miami or The Dark Tower?

GTA: Miami seems quite similar to its OTL counterpart, The Dark Tower on the other hand, I'd probably love it, it must be one hell of an acid trip. :p

Good, that will be a surprise,

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You still touched a good point, besides England and France(ubisoft), Sweden(DICE, and others) and now Poland(cd project) europe is a wasteland for videogames since the death of mircocomputers, IIRC the new ecco means something as novotrade is from Hungary but the rest of europe(besides a few spanish making licensed and edutaiment games). Why that? some europeans might give reasons about it=

Italy used to have a computer powerhouse in Olivetti, but competition from the US coupled with cheap Taiwanese computer components killed it. And many people here still see video games (and anime, fantasy, sci-fi, etc.) as children's stuff, too. We're in the same situation North America was in the early 1990s, when it comes to acceptance of nerdy interests, maybe it's a good thing because the subculture here hasn't been dudebro-ized as much as it's been dudebro-ized elsewhere, and it's actually one of the least homophobic/sexist and most accepting demographic slices of the country.
 
Italy used to have a computer powerhouse in Olivetti, but competition from the US coupled with cheap Taiwanese computer components in the early 1990s killed it. And many people here still see video games (and anime, fantasy, sci-fi, etc.) as children's stuff, too.
DAMN, but well, AGAIN THAT IS HOW ECONOMICS WORKS, still all develop nations have professional and someone might tried, still thanks for that info, again italy is winx club lands....ummm

Still the same as spain, besides Mercurysteam, spanish biggest product was an edutaiment game series, so anything can happen.
 
Italy is also where W.I.T.C.H. comes from, IIRC.... and yes, Elisabetta Gnone has started publishing the comic ITTL. Maybe she'll get contracted to work on a game? Possibilities...
 
Italy is also where W.I.T.C.H. comes from, IIRC.... and yes, Elisabetta Gnone has started publishing the comic ITTL. Maybe she'll get contracted to work on a game? Possibilities...
That would be a begin for any company, i was investigating and best selling game made from italy is..just dance(Ubisoft Milan), yeah.. the rest is too niche and license(only one i played was WRC) and we need stuff for next gen, so thanks all readers for the ideas.
 
Still on the subject of politics, how are Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart and Matt Drudge doing?
 
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Still on the subject of politics, how are Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart and Matt Drudge doing?

Drudge is still running a big-time conservative news website and is also a frequent Fox News commentator. As for Huffington and Breitbart...they're married, despite her being 19 years his senior. She's also still a conservative and is running a fairly major conservative website with Breitbart.
 
Drudge is still running a big-time conservative news website and is also a frequent Fox News commentator. As for Huffington and Breitbart...they're married, despite her being 19 years his senior. She's also still a conservative and is running a fairly major conservative website with Breitbart.
WHOAH!:eek::eek::eek:That is hilarious!x'D
OK, well, last one and non-political: How is Neil Degrasse Tyson doing?
 
WHOAH!:eek::eek::eek:That is hilarious!x'D
OK, well, last one and non-political: How is Neil Degrasse Tyson doing?

Still the director of the Hayden Planetarium and working on monthly columns for various science publications. He's also working with the Gore administration on a committee to advance space exploration (similar to his role with the OTL Bush administration).

BTW, the OTL date of the Columbia tragedy is coming up. The accident that caused it is butterflied away, but there's still the potential for a similar shuttle disaster because the safety measures that took place after Columbia haven't yet happened. So that's something that might be addressed later on.
 
Still the director of the Hayden Planetarium and working on monthly columns for various science publications. He's also working with the Gore administration on a committee to advance space exploration (similar to his role with the OTL Bush administration).

BTW, the OTL date of the Columbia tragedy is coming up. The accident that caused it is butterflied away, but there's still the potential for a similar shuttle disaster because the safety measures that took place after Columbia haven't yet happened. So that's something that might be addressed later on.
Even that i doubt something like Challenger or Columbia might repeat with butterflies, still the space shuttles did have their days numbered(Shuttles seems like a nice idea on paper but pratice the rockets were always better) so depends, again without a major war i doubt something will drain the NASA all the money like otl.
 
The butterflies could speed the TTL's Columbia tragedy or could delay it. Ah...butterflies. They are cruel creatures and they work in such mysterious ways.
 
Drudge is still running a big-time conservative news website and is also a frequent Fox News commentator. As for Huffington and Breitbart...they're married, despite her being 19 years his senior. She's also still a conservative and is running a fairly major conservative website with Breitbart.

...Well, that's still maybe not as surprising as Jennifer Morrison and James Rolfe, but it does come close.

Is there a particular conservative commentator OTL who runs a liberal web site ITTL? :p
 
You Still got Berlusconi don't worry, if he survives as long as otl, depends, still much of the Eurozone is far better as USA is not antagonizing, and if you see there a big butterflies already soared but nobodies noticed it.

You still touched a good points, besides England and France(ubisoft), Sweden(DICE, and others) and now Poland(cd project) europe is a wasteland for videogames since the death of mircocomputers, IIRC the new ecco means something as novotrade is from Hungary but the rest of europe(besides a few spanish making licensed and edutaiment games). Why that? some europeans might give reasons about it=
Speaking of CD Project Red, is there any chance they might do Cyberpunk 2077 a little bit early ITTL?
Mmmm....it'd take a bit of time to get some satisfactory answers for the European questions...in the meantime, any opinions on GTA: Miami or The Dark Tower?
They both sound awesome, and while I think I'd miss Ray Liotta as Tommy, Joey Pants is a good pick to replace him. (and quite frankly an underrated actor in general that even I'm guilty of overlooking and forgetting about...have to do something about that.)
Even that i doubt something like Challenger or Columbia might repeat with butterflies, still the space shuttles did have their days numbered(Shuttles seems like a nice idea on paper but pratice the rockets were always better) so depends, again without a major war i doubt something will drain the NASA all the money like otl.
Actually, if you really look into it, the space shuttle is (and always was) a complete deathtrap piece-of-shit. I'm amazed they didn't all get destroyed by some malfunction or another. It never should've flown, and there were so many other better designs under consideration before they were forced to choose this one.
 
Speaking of CD Project Red, is there any chance they might do Cyberpunk 2077 a little bit early ITTL?
Depends of butterflies,might end different(looks, gameplay,etc) and pretty prone as is a more recent original idea(unlike witcher who was planning since 90's!!!) but depends, maybe CD Project make something different after done with the witcher.

Actually, if you really look into it, the space shuttle is (and always was) a complete deathtrap piece-of-shit. I'm amazed they didn't all get destroyed by some malfunction or another. It never should've flown, and there were so many other better designs under consideration before they were forced to choose this one.
Excatly, NASA got the worst example of working with an obsolete tech(the shuttle were thinking to use for satellites before we make them smaller and was cheaper just build new ones that use the old ones to remplaced it), the space station was a bless in disguise, as give them too much useful live but make those tragedies...i was thinking something but that will be later.
 
One more question, and it is a political one: How is our OTL president, Donald Trump (God, I still hate to say that) doing?
He did run as reform party, he is still in business and butterflies galore might stay in that, he is just like OTL at this point(2002) maybe that apprentice E3 spoof will still be made? who knews....
 
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