Kids' MMOs are huge, not dominated by media giants

Cory Doctorow 2:00 am Thu Feb 18, 2010

Reflecting on the VentureBeat report on big media companies' massively multiplayer online games for kids at the NYC Toy Fair, veteran game designer and entrepreneur Raph Koster points out that "kids worlds and media-driven worlds are probably more important than most all the AAA MMOs released 2007 to today. Whether that's a good thing… exercise for the reader."

Where's kids MMOs are at

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