Archive for February, 2004

Essay: The ESRB game rating system is broken

By J I recently wrote an article for the Alphaville Herald on how I believed that Electronic Arts had misled the Electronic Software Rating Board (ESRB), as well as consumers and parents alike, about the rating of their popular MMORPG, The Sims Online. My criticism was met with a variety of comments from readers of [...]

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Thunderbox PC to Sponsor a MMORPG Guild

In an interesting bit of news that was recently discussed on Slashdot, Thunderbox PC has announced that it will be a sponsor for the EQ and UO superguild The Syndicate (no relation to TSO mafia also known as The Syndicate). All of which makes us wonder: if TSO survives, would corporate sponsorships of mafias and [...]

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