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Google to shut down Lively virtual world


It wasn't exactly an MMO game; more of a graphical chat room. But it was created by one of the biggest Internet based companies in the world. Yet even the power of Google couldn't get people to try out their Lively virtual world. This week the company announced that Lively, launched in beta form last July, will shut down by the end of the year.

Many people believed that Lively could have been the first step in a plan by Google to get more into actual PC gaming but as Google's blog site states, "...we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off. " As it turned out not many folks showed up to participate in Lively which may mean that Google's low key approach didn't get the attention it first expected

[Via Massively]

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