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News of the World News: Castronova Takes Virtual Commerce to the National Airwaves
Virtual Economist Edward Castronova — author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games as well as many engaging Terra Nova blog posts — hits the national airwaves this evening during a segment about virtual commerce to air on ABC World News Tonight. Check your local listings for time and channel, but don’t [...]
Full StoryNewsflash: Entire Second Life Population Faces Jail Time!!
by Walker Spaight In a development with shocking ramifications for the virtual world, Second Life’s entire population of 100,000 or more residents found itself facing imminent jail time — and not the cornfield kind — after U.S. President George Bush signed a new law last week that forbids using the Internet to "annoy, abuse, threaten [...]
Full StoryA Chat in the Desert
Cooperative gameplay, Egyptian-style Andrew Tepper, pharaoh of Egypt (or at least of the massively multiplayer online world of A Tale in the Desert) has something say, and he wants you to listen. He also wants you to get in his game, and is re-opening free trial accounts to anyone who’s interested, even if you’ve already [...]
Full StoryThe Island of Dr. Zamboni
Okay, so they’re not trying to push democratic governance in virtual worlds, but over at Democracy Island, which opens today in Second Life, the virtual world may may come in handy in settling governance issues in the real world. Under the tutelage of the New York Law School’s Beth Noveck and the guiding hand of [...]
Full StorySex, Fame and PC Baangs
Games journo Jim Rossignol recently traveled to Korea, and has brought back the first really in-depth story about PC gaming culture in that country, which he wrote for PC Gamer (UK) but which is currently available on Jim’s own site. For anyone even marginally interested in the future of gaming and virtual worlds, it’s a [...]
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