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Play A Multiplayer Online Game While Surfing The Web

techcrunch.com — Want to play a MOG (multiplayer online game) passively while surfing the web all day? Then you ’ll like PMOG, the first game developed by California and UK-based GameLayers.

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  • dotlizard, on 02/04/2008, -2/+27looks addictive.
  • Freakboy380, on 02/04/2008, -15/+7"worst game ever" - comic book guy
    • Eoborges, on 02/04/2008, -6/+13"Worst Comment ever" - Eoborges
      • DontEatTheFish, on 02/04/2008, -2/+16you cant quote yourself if you are just posting it.
        its like a paradox, quoting a comment that hasn't been submitted yet.

        unless you have said it about another comment but then it is irrelevant.
  • vlforman, on 02/04/2008, -12/+4PMOG rocks.
  • jaychuck, on 02/04/2008, -3/+51I bet, once this goes out of private beta, everyone will be putting mines on MySpace. I know I will...
    • Emceegyver, on 02/04/2008, -13/+7People still go on myspace? I forgot about that place long ago, thanks a lot for reminding me
  • jggube, on 02/04/2008, -4/+79I already do that, I'm writing this comment in the middle of 25-man raid.... brb, people yelling at me to heal more.
    • praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+14MORE DOTS!
      • RG13, on 02/04/2008, -1/+6It'd be HOTs, if he's healing.
        Sorry, ill just go crawl back into my hole now.
    • bfrank72, on 02/04/2008, -1/+3Alt-tab for the win.
    • Pedlya, on 02/04/2008, -0/+7Greg, stop ***** posting here, heal Ryan, and Mellissa.
    • Tyrghast, on 02/04/2008, -1/+7uh jason just got feared into the WHO! THE *****! AGGROD THE WHELPS! KILL THE ***** WHELPS I SWEAR TO GOD!
    • Clark3934, on 02/04/2008, -0/+4Dual monitors ftw.
      • joegibes, on 02/04/2008, -0/+3Dual instancing? 5 copies of WOW ftw.
    • triskele, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Love that windowed mode.
  • nickkie72, on 02/04/2008, -10/+4A game I do NOT have to waste my life on?
    • Jarasmen, on 02/04/2008, -0/+8A game you can play while you waste your life anyway ;)
  • TalkingBanana, on 02/04/2008, -4/+8Looks fun. Can't wait till I get to do beta.
  • thebellmaster1x, on 02/04/2008, -8/+11If you're more for the single-player RPGs, I suggest Progress Quest.
  • vsujohn2, on 02/04/2008, -1/+7What an excellent idea, I wish i thought of it
  • toxicityj, on 02/04/2008, -13/+7yeah, its called windowed mode. thanks.
  • webtech, on 02/04/2008, -0/+30Invitations here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/03/pmog-get-your ...
  • juicebag, on 02/04/2008, -3/+16Buried because I want to make the closed beta.
  • diskit, on 02/04/2008, -7/+1I tried signing up, but I haven't gotten a confirmation e-mail or anything.
    What's up with that?
    • lougoose, on 02/04/2008, -0/+3It's in private beta....just because you sign up doesn't mean you get an invite right away. They want to work out bugs, then add more people, work out bugs, etc.

      Letting everyone in at once is a bad idea.
      • diskit, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Yeah I figured that out afterwards.
        The title of this Digg is really misleading and must have allowed me to jump to the false conclusion that I could actually play the damn thing.
        • lougoose, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1I can see that, I guess. Kinda frustrating, but it'll become a public beta eventually (or just skip to the final version).
          • diskit, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Yeah.
            It does say "Play A Multiplayer Online Game While Surfing The Web"
            For a game that's not even available to play I'd say that's bound to confuse people.
  • InsaneOni, on 02/04/2008, -5/+7I already do....It's called Eve.
  • OMGsplosion, on 02/04/2008, -0/+8I will probably stumble onto all the porno mines then... How embarrassing.
  • ThatGeek, on 02/04/2008, -3/+3looks cool, and a lot of the illustrations look cool and steampunky.
  • NeoNightmareX, on 02/04/2008, -0/+23"Hello Kitty: Island Adventure" kicks all other MOG's asses.
    • lougoose, on 02/04/2008, -0/+15Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
  • wonginator1221, on 02/04/2008, -8/+2I prefer alt-tab.
  • Remmy, on 02/04/2008, -0/+13Innovative way to track your online habits.
    • Javlington, on 02/04/2008, -0/+3Cunning, I didn't see that until you mentioned it...
  • Emachine, on 02/04/2008, -2/+9Sounds like something made by someone desperately trying to drive traffic to their ***** sites.
  • Jarasmen, on 02/04/2008, -1/+2DING!
  • SweetChinMusic, on 02/04/2008, -1/+18I foresee porn-hunting missions.
  • krystofr, on 02/04/2008, -0/+6Al Gore is behind all of this. He gave us the internet, he'll take it away from us, too.
  • lougoose, on 02/04/2008, -0/+14I'm putting a mine on scientology.org for sure.
    • Smills, on 02/04/2008, -1/+1Lets bomb it :p
    • spiritditch, on 02/04/2008, -1/+1I say nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
  • buddamus, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Play games and look at porn, cool
  • m00n1, on 02/04/2008, -0/+6And spammers will start manipulating the game in: 3, 2, 1....
  • Artemisian, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1I like it. Sounds like a wonderful opportunity to waste more time at work.
  • SurlyDuff, on 02/04/2008, -1/+4Obviously they've never heard of IdleRPG, my favourite online game.
  • ccdub, on 02/04/2008, -4/+2First thing I thought of when I read "MOG" was the awesome moogle from FFVI ... *dance*
  • RAEP, on 02/04/2008, -2/+1It sounds like a facebook app.
  • Excelryu, on 02/04/2008, -1/+1Cool. I already signed up for the beta. Now to wait for a invite.
  • FPSDavid, on 02/04/2008, -0/+9500 - Internal Server Error
  • gajolo, on 02/04/2008, -1/+2Digg brought down Techcrunch. :(
    "500 - Internal Server Error"



  • bmc31190, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1DOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
  • JoeRW, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Ooh, Im going to create the 'journey to Bucketheadland' web dungeon. I seriously spent 2 days unearthing all I could about that place and its founder.
  • Tyrghast, on 02/04/2008, -1/+1Earth 2025 is superior, and it's been around for like 8 years.
  • kurtisnelson, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Oops, I have been browsing too much. Maybe I should click this link.
    Leeeroooy Jenkins!!!
  • jimmick, on 02/04/2008, -0/+4I do not look forward to being portalled to meatspin
  • Darksoul, on 02/04/2008, -0/+0Yeah because I mean its not hard enough shooting and fighting laggy people in games as it is.....
  • Zizhou, on 02/04/2008, -0/+3So...does anyone else find it interesting that they actively track your web usage? I mean, I can understand it in the context of how the game works, but at the same time, the plug-in is basically giving them a free license to build a comprehensive database of all your internet activity without having to do any digging around at all. To make it worse, all of it is done under the innocuous guise of a game...

    I dunno, it's just something I find rather unnerving.
    • inputname, on 02/15/2008, -0/+1Not to mention, they say they may share your data (the collection of the tracked URLs) to third parties. It says so in the privacy statement.
  • QuickeningYak, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1FTA: "And here is one possible business model for the game - having advertisers create sponsored missions that give users some reward for completing them."

    Once people get wise to this (which probably won't happen until after deployment), the developer will either cease the project or go into the adware client biz and call it "upgrades" or some such (assuming they can get another round of funding).

    Folks, this might be a malware project in larval form. That's what I see. I hope I'm wrong.
  • ecker, on 02/04/2008, -0/+0i'm looking for an invite...if site is up and running yet... but yeah aecker@gmail.com thanks in advance! and yes, i read link and signed up at inviteshare but i don't think people are honoring invites there.. as will i!
  • TH3W1R3D, on 02/05/2008, -0/+1Just thought I'd let everyone know this game is actually kinda cool, and is as it claims to be 'passive'. Fun stuff.
  • thebouv, on 02/05/2008, -0/+0Who calls them MOGs?
  • megaflops, on 02/10/2008, -0/+1I would like a COD game and surfing the NET
  • Nekiruhs, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1Just got my invite. Sign up at inviteshare.com and I'll start giving some out every week (You only get 2/week).
  • vip0007, on 03/02/2008, -0/+0I signed up for the beta test , I will try it again

    http://games.wslaat.com
  • helenkupo, on 03/05/2008, -0/+0I just started playing and I'm hooked. If anyone needs an invite send me a message.
  • over1, on 05/31/2008, -0/+0http://rmooosh.net/games
    http://rmooosh.net/vb
    http://rmooosh.net/

  • teslat, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0try this
    http://games.3abkr.com/
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