Cartoon Network preps 'Casual MMO'

April 17, 2008 The Cartoon Network is about to release a video game oxymoron ... what it calls a "casual MMOG." Back in April 2006, Disney's "Toontown" had only captured 0.9% of the MMOG market since its launch in June, 2003, but that was enough to convince rival Cartoon Network to begin cooking up an MMOG of its own that it planned to release this spring. [...] here it is, the spring of 2008, and the release of Cartoon Network's "FusionFall" MMOG has been delayed twice, first to this summer, and now to this fall, for reasons no one at Cartoon Network chooses to discuss.

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