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Spacetime Studios' games hit 100 million play sessions

by Mike Schramm (Feb 9th, 2012)

Spacetime Studios has hit a pretty crazy milestone, even in the ever-more-massive world of iOS and mobile gaming. The company's MMOs on the iPhone, Android, and Chrome platforms have hit a total of 100 million play sessions, which means people have loaded up and logged into Spacetime's titles more ...

Pocket Legends offers paid content for free

by Mike Schramm (Apr 19th, 2011)

Pocket Legends, I maintain, is one of iOS' best technical achievements. It's a full-featured MMO, in the style of the legendary World of Warcraft, and it's available to play for free on Apple's App Store. It's huge among a certain audience (and, in fact, I've been told that audience is even ...

GDC 2011: Spacetime Studios returns to Blackstar

by Mike Schramm (Mar 7th, 2011)

I last spoke with Spacetime Studios' CEO Gary Gattis last year at GDC Online in Austin, and when I saw him then, he told me his company was commissioned to create a PC MMO for NCsoft called Blackstar. Spacetime spent months and months of work on the project before it was abruptly canceled, ...

Best App Ever winners announced, Angry Birds wins big

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2011)

148Apps' own Jeff Scott just handed me an actual piece of paper here in the Macworld press room, and on it there are all of the Best App Ever winners listed. You can read the full list online in PDF form, but we'll spoil a few of them for you. Best App Ever for 2010? None other than a little app ...

GDC Online 2010: Spacetime Studios and the making of Pocket Legends

by Mike Schramm (Oct 8th, 2010)

Pocket Legends has been out on the App Store for quite a while now, but if you (like me) haven't seen it in a while, you might want to check it out again. Spacetime Studios has been steadily updating the game, and the title they showed off at GDC Online 2010 this week was pretty impressive -- an ...

Pocket Legends updated to Pocket Legends: Adventures, a full MMO on iOS

by Mike Schramm (Aug 10th, 2010)

I tried Pocket Legends for the iPhone a while back, and found it to be pretty interesting. It's a full 3D MMO inside the iPhone, where you create a character, equip it with weapons, and then jump in with a few other people to hack, slash, and cast your way through a dungeon. It could use a little ...