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Behind the beak of Club Penguin: would you let your child play?

Club Penguin is no hybrid chocolate bar.

It’s a browser MMO about cartoon penguins and their snowy online world of mini-games and igloo decorating. It’s a giant; a business boasting 150 million registered accounts and 10 to 15 million active monthly users. And a portion of those pay £5 every month.

Lane Merrifield created it for his children.

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News: Rockstar "only scratching the surface"

Houser sees more potential in open-world.

Rockstar has barely scratched the surface of what’s achievable in open world games, according to co-founder Dan Houser.

When asked by IGN what the future holds for the developer, Houser suggested there was still plenty more mileage left in the free-roaming Grand Theft Auto template.

“I think there’s something really interesting in the open world experience,” he explained.


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