Turns out they recently installed a fiber optic link to the studio at the school and local station -- and CNN affiliate -- WWL is evacuating their operation to that studio.
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Games makers may laud the always online requirement as the future, he said, but so far no studio had got it right or used that permanent link to do more with a game.