Trion Real-Time Episodic Content For Size

By James Munn | September 26, 2006

We all know that Episodic Content has already taken hold in the video game industry. Trion World Network, a Silicon Valley startup, thinks that real-time episodic content is the future of video games in our broadband enabled world. Episodic content is nothing new, so I guess the new idea here is what they mean by “real-time,” or as they describe it, “Think MySpace.com meets “World of Warcraft” and interactive reality TV shows like “Survivor?” Only time will tell, twelve months of time to be exact.

Dr. Lars Buttler, former Vice President for Global Online at Electronic Arts, now Founder and CEO of Trion World Network, Inc, believes,

“Trion will offer a new kind gaming experience to the tech-savvy consumers who flock to sites like MySpace and YouTube.”

Buttler says that Trion will get revenue from paid downloads, subscriptions along with in-game advertising rather than from retail game sales. This “network” should be ready to go in twelve months, we’ll see what happens. Lars is expected to be a keynote speaker this November at the LA Games Conference so we can expect more news in the coming months.

Sounds like Steam but with media as well as games. Meh.

Via Reuters