A Somewhat Unsurprising Announcement
Richard Garriott leaves NCsoft
Scott Jennings
It's A Rare Day I Agree With Kotaku
…but hey, even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
Note to game developers: war is not TURBO XXXTREME NO RULES NO FEAR AWESOME. And previous Call of Duty titles (up to the magisterial Call of Duty 4, which is a fantastic epic both in its overt and less
FreeRealms Beta Opens?
Certainly looks that way…
Your Tax Dollars At Work, Part Eighty-Nine
US military to test emergent AI systems in commercial MMOs.
To test out the computer generated humans’ “humanity,” Parmentola and his researchers want to unleash some of their cyber Soldiers into so-called “massively multi-player online games” such as “World of Warcraft” or “Eve Online” – games frequented by thousands of super-competitive
Obama Only Posts On The Class Role Forums, Anyway
Send your feedback to Cyberpresident Obama! It’s what Sanya recommends.
I wonder who Obama’s community manager is. Do they post on Free Republic?
My Secret Vice...
…show tunes.
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(note: I wonder if the people who did this know how Les Miserables ended.)
Second Life Users Furious Over Barely Understandable Controversy
WARNING: BY READING THIS BLOG POST YOU WILL LEARN A LOT ABOUT SECOND LIFE. VERY LITTLE OF IT INVOLVES SEX.
So. What do you do in Second Life? BESIDES that (I *warned* you there was very little sex involved here). You build stuff.
To build stuff, you need a place