The Salon.com article Showdown in cyberspace: Star Wars vs. The Sims (thanks HomeLAN Fed) looks at the massively multiplayer online game genre and the many games that are in development for it. People expect the market to grow, but it's questionable if it will unless developers start making their games accessible to the non-hardcore games. The article has various quotes from developers, including Will Wright of The Sims fame. In related news there is this Iritor Online Q&A (sci-fi MMORPG), Priest Q&A (wild-west MMORPG) and Dragon Empires Q&A (fantasy MMORPG).