Game Industry Hopes to Flourish from Mars

Avatar Reality, a gaming company in Hawaii is hoping to make it big off of a virtual reality game, Blue Mars, that is based on Mars in the year 2177. The game displays Mars as a terraformed paradise. People involved in the game are allowed to enter the game for free but then have to purchase things like apartments (per month) and different hair styles. Professional city developers constructed the layout for the Martian cities in the game and the game creators hope that the game will let people have a tie in with real-world economy as well. People involved in the game can also make virtual money by doing things like serving as tour guides for newcomers in the program. Blue Mars is set to come out in the middle of 2008 and the developers are hoping to have over 10million users by 2013. The picture below is the image of a spaceport in the game.

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