The News Review:

- THQ’s nline Role-Playing Studio Sold Amid Pressing Financial Troubles
- Blockbuster Introducing New nline Game Rental Program
- Microsoft attempts a 300000-player online game
- Federal Reserve Bank offers online games

THQ’s nline Role-Playing Studio Sold Amid Pressing Financial Troubles
Seeking Alpha
The company’s first internal IP a Massively Multiplayer nline Game. The company’s reportedly been using.

Blockbuster Introducing New nline Game Rental Program
Kombo.com
Starting June 30th a pilot program will be launched for online game rentals in Cleveland hio. Customers will be charged on a per game billing cycle format (you only pay for the games you rent) complimented by a small monthly fee. Blockbuster plans to offer games for the PS2 PS3 Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. In addition they plan to merge the video game online rentals with their Total Access program for movies.

Microsoft attempts a 300000-player online game
Neoseeker
A recent job posting released by the company calls for "an experienced server developer to help develop our server architecture. We are building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new ways; creating a completely new set of web services to support dynamic programming information of games and scheduling data. "The listing goes on to describe that applicants will be "building a backend capable of hosting a 300000 player game in real-time with real money on the line (anti-cheating etc). "Maybe Microsoft got sick of hearing about the PlayStation 3 exclusive MAG and decided they’d shoot for something higher than 256 — way higher.

Federal Reserve Bank offers online games
The Patriot Ledger
Games are suitable for individual and classroom use and are intended for middle and high school students but adults can also benefit.  “Peanuts & Crackerjacks” was  launched in 2001 to explore the market for professional team sports – how leagues gained market power why tickets cost so much why athletes earn as much as they do why there is so much economic conflict in pro team sports. "Hero" is the second unit in the “Show Business” series which was written by Robert Jabaily. The first "Climbing the Charts” was launched in 2007 to illustrate how markets develop the role of technology in shaping markets intellectual property rights and copyrighting.  “Pursuit!” focuses on explaining economic growth.
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