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Youxi Gongzhuoshi

Julian Dibbell, friend to all RMT, writes for the New York Times on the emerging new markets in Chinese gold farming. At the end of each shift, Li reports the night’s haul to his supervisor, and at the end of the week, he, like his nine co-workers, will be

I Must Obey All Memes

This one you can blame Cuppytalk on – what does my playspace (PC and videogame) look like? (Follow the link for trackback from other Bloggers That Must Obey All Memes). Well, actually, both are pretty spartan. My PC space (thumbnails) : home-desk.jpg And my video space: home-video.jpg So, now you

In Soviet Russia, Servers Emulate You

Playnoevil has a link to a trade paper story in Russia about the author of a Ragnarok Online server emulator losing out in court and being sent “conditionally” to prison for 3 years. The damaged party claimed that Kiseliov had used an illegal copy of the ‘official’ server part’s

Che Rolls In 0.0 Space

As a followup to the last post, a reader linked this article about why Eve is different. More than 3 million people have tried EVE. A fraction remain. Why? Probably because most of them want to play a game. And EVE isn’t a game. It’s a revolution.

Virtually a World

Amongst the seemingly never-ending navel gazing prompted by any public mention of SWG (and especially the NGE), Steve “Moorgard” Danuser brings up a point that’s been rubbing me the wrong way for a while now: Online games and virtual worlds are not the same thing. If you’re building

Your Suspicious Are Confirmed…

World of Warcraft actually is aimed at seven year olds.

You See: [A Crowbar]

Allen Varney follows up his earlier NGE story for the Escapist with the coda of Jeff Freeman’s adventures in blogging, thus proving that it’s never wise to actually blog about what you’re doing at work, because enterprising writers will dredge it up years later to prove a