MMORPG.com's Jon Wood takes a look at Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment's recent announcement that they would be shelving their MMO in favor of a third person online action game, and what it could mean for the future of the MMO.

Yesterday we posted a story directly out of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the developers of the often troubled Stargate Worlds, that their MMO project had been sidelined in favor of another game.

This new game, being called Stargate Resistance, is a third person shooter online action game that uses many of the assets of the MMO to create an experience that "pits teams of Stargate Command personnel against the System Lords and their minions in exhilarating real-time online battles."

It's an interesting and not at all unforeseeable outcome for a studio that has, in the past, been unable to pay its employees and has since been plagued by rumors, both credible and not, about staff attrition, working conditions and most importantly funding problems.

Read Wood: Resisting Stargate Resistance?