Our latest coverage of Playable Worlds.
Raph Koster has enlisted the help of Portuguese software company Didimo to help populate his Playable Worlds virtual multiverse using their AI-powered 3D character generation platform called Popul8. The relatively new platform takes a huge chunk of the workload from the developers by creating all of the characters in the game with minimal input and is also in use by [...]
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Raph Koster and Gordon Walton team up once again as Walton joins Playable Worlds as the studio’s new Executive Producer and Chief Product Officer. Walton has a total of 40 years’ experience under his belt and worked together with Koster as Executive Producer of some of his MMORPGs including Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. Until recently, he was also [...]
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Playable Worlds scored an additional $25 million in investments earlier this week which studio founder Raph Koster says will be used to expand the development team and support the development of their still-unannounced dynamic sandbox MMO. While the team isn’t ready to share specifics about the upcoming game just yet, Koster is more than happy to talk about the technology [...]
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Raph Koster and his new development studio, Playable Worlds, have secured another $25 million in investments in their Series B funding round. The round was led by South Korean video game publisher Kakao Games with participation from Galaxy Interactive, Bitkraft Ventures, and new investors Lilith Games and Gainjels. The studio had also raised $2.7 million in seed funding back in [...]
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Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds has just landed a $10 million investment during their Series A funding led by Galaxy Interactive in partnership with Block.one. The new studio is currently working on a ground-breaking MMO built with cloud-computing in mind. According to the official press release, the MMO promises to open a “pathway to brand new kinds of gameplay and game [...]
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A few days ago, Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies Lead Designer Raph Koster announced his new game development studio called Playable Worlds. The studio was co-founded together with veteran strategic advisor Eric Goldberg who also serves as the studio’s head of business, strategy, and corporate development. Playable Worlds is already hard at work on their flagship MMO with $2.7 [...]
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