Project Outback Kaput

Outback Online, the virtual world project from Yoick, is finished according to a post on Yoick CEO Rand Leeb-du Toit's blog where he mentioned "the demise of the virtual world I was working on." In February it was reported on the stealth mode virtual world based on peer-to-peer technology and aimed at teenagers. Then in May sources reported that Warb, who had been providing the front end, would be splitting off to go in its own direction, now focusing on user-created virtual worlds. At that time we were told by sources close to the company that it was having trouble raising funding. "Partly because of the dynamic nature of the space…there have been some fundamental shifts over the Summer of Facebook, hugely positive trends that have validated my decision not to continue with Project Outback," explained Leeb-du Toit.