NetDevil have had an interesting journey. They're a privately owned, Colorado-based company that started out by making a niche space-combat MMO, Jumpgate, in 2001. They then went on to create the disastrous post-apocalyptic vehicle combat MMO Auto Assault in 2006 - a game so unpopular that it was switched off just over a year after release by owners NCSoft. Now NetDevil are back on track and working on two projects: a remake of their original MMO, JumpGate Evolution, and the LEGO Universe MMO. Both are looking extremely promising, but in this interview with executive producer Hermann Peterscheck Rock, Paper, Shotgun focus on lessons learned from the failure of Auto Assault, and what you can expect from this second attempt at Jumpgate.
In a perfect world, the mmos that people love to play would last forever, but that is seldom the case. It seems that the games gamers care about the most and pour their hearts into are the ones that eventually find themselves being shut down. To remember those games that have gone to the digital realm in the sky, MMO-Play offered a list of the top five mmos we miss the most.
LEGO Universe developer NetDevil has apparently laid off a large number of staff, with stories already circulating that the company has been closed.
GamePron is still searching for an official statement from NetDevil or parent company Gazillion, but studio founder and former president Scott Brown has called out to his former colleagues via social media.
Hit-Reset's Davejm takes a look at what has happened to the highly anticipated follow up to Jumpgate.
