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Diablo launches, from Blizzard. Though not a true MUD, it is immensely popular and brings awareness of graphical multiplayer RPGs to the masses. -
UO launches commercially and breaks 100,000 users very quickly. Rich Vogel joins Origin before launch. -
Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck is published. -
Second Nature Interactive discovers that its name is taken and renames itself Turbine Entertainment Software. -
A development deal is signed for AC , to be developed by Turbine. Jeremy Gaffney is among those involved, though he later leaves before it ships. Toby Ragaini is principal designer. -
NCSoft launches Lineage . -
NWN on AOL was shut down on July 19, 1997, when AOL made the official switch to WorldPlay (formerly INN) for the Games Channel. -
Mythic releases Darkness Falls , a commercial text MUD. -
In September, UOX, the first UO server emulator, manages two simultaneous connections with UOX3. By 2000, there would be several hundred UO server emulators running. |