See Virtual Worlds

See Virtual Worlds, the company behind the upcoming Michael and Universal Monsters MMO’s, has purchased Planet Calypso from MindArk for six million dollars. In the same transaction, See Virtual Worlds acquired the assets of First Planet Company, a subsidiary of MindArk.

Planet Calypso is the first planet in the Entropia Universe. The game’s been running since 2003 and has almost one million registered accounts. Planet Calypso has a real cash economy; in November 2010, an in-game virtual resort sold for a staggering $635,000. To learn more about the game, check out Senior Staff Writer Chris “Pwff” Tom’s, recent tour of Planet Calypso.

See Virtual Worlds announced late last year that it is developing two new planets to add to the Entropia Universe: Planet Michael, which is based on the life of the late ‘King of Pop,’ Michael, and a world that focuses on famous Universal Monsters such as Frankenstein and Dracula. Players can move their Entropia avatars from planet to planet and explore all of the various MMOs in the universe.

For more details on the acquisition, check out Massively’s interview with See Virtual Worlds President, Corey Redmond.

Source: abclocal.go.com & MJWN