Power On Games

[Gamasutra's new editor-at-large Chris Morris examines the curiously abrupt end of Acclaim's 9Dragons, which stranded 1.5 million U.S. players -- when a game struggles in the high-risk MMO market, the players end up losing out, too.] Nobody saw the end coming for 9Dragons - especially the players. A post in the game's Acclaim-operated forums, which went up just hours before the U.S. servers shut down, was the only official notification. A panicky press release from ...