PoxNora studio acquired by Sony OnLine Entertainment

General Discussions
#1

W00T! Commercial Java game takes a big step forward!

http://www.edge-online.com/news/sony-online-founds-tucson-studio

Congrats to all at Octopi!

#2

Sounds like great news for java gaming, looking forward to see more java games from them.

Maybe we’ll now see a JRE and JOGL port for PS3?

#3

Interesting, isn’t it? So, PoxNora is now bumped forward. Wakfu is using Java on both client and server. CampFu from Rebel Monkey. Tribal Trouble 2. Hmmm… very interesting indeed…

#4

not to forget NCSoft’s Aion applet http://blog.renanse.com/2008/11/ncsoft-java-redux.html :slight_smile:

#5

That’s really interesting news for the java gaming world!
Congrats to all involved!

#6

Java rocks!!! ;D
I hope Java will be considered as a good choice to develop video games now.

#7

Pardon me but, where does it talk about using Java? Don’t have more time to search.

#8

It doesn’t but poxnora has been posted on the forums many of times.
http://poxnora.com/index.do

#9

ok, thanks

#10

there is a thread somewhere talking about jobs in java, this is a huge step for java development :smiley: