from the Looks best in Red dept,
BigWorld powered Virtual World ‘Twinity‘ from Metaversum, has picked up a Red Herring Top 100 award in Europe, recognising leading private technology ventures in the EMEA region. Thanks to Virtual Worlds News.
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Twinity : Santa’s sack and the Titty Twister
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008, posted by skgfrom the Ho Ho Ho it’s Christmas dept.
Metaversum’s Twinity crests 100,000 users this month and is laying on improvement after improvement, from cute Googlemaps inserts to help you navigate through the behemoth city to early testing of the city of London, Twinitized.
Friday this week, there are some shennanigans on inside Twinity, including a best outfit competition winners to be announced at the Titty Twister club, and you can celebrate Christmas at the Brandenburg Gate – also with a massive Virtual Tree – the biggest ever seen virtually? Currently? Outside Second Life? Who knows. Frohe Weihnachten.
Holiday spirit has arrived in Twinity and we want to celebrate with you! For nearly 700 years, the traditional German Christmas Market has endured as a fun holiday celebration where friends, family and strangers can meet and enjoy the “Weihnachtsstimmung” (Christmas spirit) together.
In Twinity, just like at traditional Christmas Markets, you can buy and give gifts to your virtual friends! Get fun holiday clothes and accessories for your avatar or Christmas trees for your virtual apartment! Bring your real-life Glühwein and we’ll sing Christmas carols together under the biggest virtual Christmas tree you’ve ever seen!
BigWorld features ‘first’ in list of middleware engines on Gamasutra
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008, posted by skgfrom the Luckily there isn’t an ‘Aardvark’ engine dept.
Thanks to the miracle of alphabeticization, BigWorld is listed first in the round-up on Gamasutra, just nudging out Crysis and literally at the other end of the pile from Unreal 3, were it not for the fact Epic starts with an ‘E‘. Simutronics HeroEngine is the only other listed MMO specific engine.
A few omissions to the article include previously shipped BigWorld games and Virtual Worlds – Netease currently burning brightly in China with TianXia 2, and Metaversum’s Twinity. The first BigWorld title shipped in the first half of 2006, making four shipped MMO client/server middleware-powered games by 2008. In the coming quarters we should see launch activity from other BigWorld titles in beta, Firesky’s Stargate Worlds and Interzone’s Futebol.
Twinity pushes past 50,000 users
Monday, October 27th, 2008, posted by skgfrom the Fresh out of the Gate dept.
Twinity – the BigWorld-Powered-Mash-Up-Mirror-World (BPMUMW) from German Developers Metaversum has 50k users and growing according to APLink’s Peters. Not bad for only a couple of months out of the gate, and more to come as they steamroll more and more virtual cities out, with London and Singapore pegged as their next milestones, hot on the heels of Singapore’s Media Development Office’s investment in the infrastructure to support the Virtual World.
Happy 50th Twinity! Here’s to the next 500k 
The Beeb takes a look at Twinity.
Thursday, October 9th, 2008, posted by skgFrom the Now it’s mainstream dept.
The esteemed BBC takes a look at some virtual worlds and talks with Jochen Hummel, CEO of Metaversum, makers of Twinity, powered by the BigWorld engine.
“Fantasy worlds give you freedom and allow you to fly but the fantasy element limits them for the real world,” said Jochen Hummel, the chief executive of Metaversum, the company behind Twinity.
“Teenage boys are the biggest users but for adults there is a need to improve their real lives rather than escape from them,” he said.
Video of Twinity in action and audio interview with Mr Hummel available here.
Twinity launches open beta
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008, posted by skgfrom the Keys to the City dept.
APLINK It’s Real and others are reporting on Friday’s ceremony for Twinity’s formal open beta phase. CEO Jochen Hummel was on hand with other dignitaries, stating :
“Our vision is clear, this is a trusted environment within a virtual world, lifelike, and based on real metropolises. People can live, work, and have fun here. They can also beam themselves straight into the world’s most attractive cities with a single click. With the launch of our public beta phase, we have laid the foundation for Twinity’s international rollout.”Metropolises. Metropoli? Realistic havens of cyber citizens grooving and interacting with one another in a mirror world, powered by BigWorld. Dive in and get your access.
