After the failure of what was likely the most-publicized and heavily marketed massive multiplayer online (MMO), LEGO Universe, the question of whether games oriented towards children can succeed is a legitimate one.  LEGO was online for just over a year and went free to play (F2P) in...

The Lego Group will be closing LEGO Universe at the end of January (the 31st) due to a lack of paying customers.  The game went Free to Play (F2P) and saw hundreds of thousands of new players join, but failed to convert enough of them into paying customers to continue operations. The...