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UNCOVERED: Greg street - The Untold Story

Riot hires another World of Warcraft veteran to get its League of Legends MMO over the line as we approach 6 years since its initial announcement

Brian Holinka was once WoW's combat lead at Blizzard

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The League of Legends MMO adds another World of Warcraft vet to its team

Former WoW lead combat designer Brian Holinka has found a new home.

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The MMO being led by former WoW designer Greg Street looks to be dead as his studio officially closes after NetEase ends funding: 'While we'd love to make our game, our first priority is to help our developers find employment'

Greg Street said in October that Fantastic Pixel Castle would "likely close" if it couldn't secure new funding, and now the curtain has fallen.

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Another MMO dead: ex-World of Warcraft and League of Legends lead's new studio "will close its doors" this month without releasing its flagship game Ghost

"Fantastic Pixel Castle will close its doors on Nov 17"

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Former World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO lead says replacing devs with AI is "a little bit premature" - "AI may one day accelerate game development. But it's not happening today"

"All of these layoffs are just to cut opex and make the stock prices go up. It will lead to empty portfolios for the next few years"

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As New World dies thanks to Amazon, ex World of Warcraft lead thanks the devs who made it for "trying to keep the MMO dream alive" as he struggles with his own new MMORPG

New World season 10 is the game's last major update

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Former Riot exec and WoW vet side-eyes the 'gigantic investments' and flubs of major studios as his MMO scrambles for funding: 'Please indulge me in feeling salty for a moment'

"A fraction of that could have created a lot of smaller games."

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$MMO vet picks through the games industry carnage and blames "gigantic investments" in games that were "burning money": "A fraction of that could have created a lot of smaller games"$

MMO vet picks through the games industry carnage and blames "gigantic investments" in games that were "burning money": "A fraction of that could have created a lot of smaller games"

World of Warcraft vet and League of Legends MMO lead Greg Street skewers bad bets

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NetEase pulls the plug on another studio: Former Riot exec's Fantastic Pixel Castle will 'likely close' if a new publisher isn't found soon

Greg Street founded Fantastic Pixel Castle in 2023 to make a new MMO called Ghost.

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World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO veteran says he saw Riot and Blizzard "seemingly abandon" approaching development "from a place of humility instead of arrogance"

"Polish won out over gameplay"

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Former WoW and League of Legends MMO dev showing off new game today, but be warned - "We're taking Unreal Man with a bunch of store-bought assets"

Project Ghost continues to look rough, and that's the idea

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The LoL MMO has "a lot of momentum" and "a great direction," despite going dark for a reset earlier this year

Riot co-founder Marc Merrill is pouring his time into the project

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Former World of Warcraft lead speaks out on the problem plaguing MMO combat – the "bajillion buff and debuff icons"

He also defends tab-targeting combat, saying it doesn't need to be stationary or "predictable"

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Former World of Warcraft lead says AI is fine for the MMO "grunt work," but not the creative tasks that "thousands of talented people" are dying to do

"Let AI go do my laundry so I can go paint"

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New MMO from former WoW lead gets the earliest first look I've ever seen, and it's the kind of ugly I want every game dev to feel comfortable sharing

Project Ghost offers an unprecedented level of transparency

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Riot hits the development reset button for its League of Legends MMO: 'The initial vision just wasn’t different enough from what you can play today'

The studio will be going radio silent about the project "to focus on the incredible amount of work ahead of them."

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World of Warcraft veteran explains how his new MMO’s take on private areas will work, without everything feeling “sad and empty”

It sounds like Ghost will handle things similarly to Final Fantasy 14

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World of Warcraft veteran's new MMO will draw from Arcane, Persona, and Spider-Man for its magic

Ghost is taking inspiration from some solid sources

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World of Warcraft veteran says to expect “difficulty spikes” in his new MMO: “RPGs are better when they are a little difficult, and I think that goes doubly true for MMOs”

Ghost can't come soon enough

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MMO veteran of WoW and League of Legends finally unveils new project 'Ghost,' set in a "new fantasy universe"

Project Ghost is the new game from Greg 'Ghostcrawler' Street

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Greg Street, who quit working on the League of Legends MMO to do 'something new,' has revealed that the new thing is another MMO

Fantastic Pixel Castle is a new Netease studio that's currently working on an fantasy MMO codenamed Ghost.

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Indie game devs confirm that loading bars are totally fake, and my worldview has shattered

Just because I knew it was true doesn't mean it doesn't hurt

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Former League of Legends MMO lead is spinning up a new studio to make a genre rival

Greg Street is setting up a remote studio to work on "something very MMO-like"

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There’s ‘no guarantee’ the League of Legends MMORPG will come out, says dev

Executive Producer Greg Street is optimistic, but nothing is for sure.

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