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Scott Jennings

Someone’s Been Reading forums.worldofwarcraft.com Again

Lore Sj\’c3\’b6berg has posted one of the best analyses of MMO message boards. Ever. I mean, I’m done now, he nailed it. If you play an online game that you enjoy, there’s one surefire way to spoil the experience: read the forums on the official site.

Second Life Found To Actually Be A Series Of Tubes

Raph Koster, in commenting on Second Life News Story 4.6 x 109, states that “the MMO community” resents the amount of publicity Second Life is getting, possibly out of jealousy. In response, I give you ABC, which apparently has confused Second Life with the entire Internet. Meanwhile, some clever

Funny, I Always Thought It Was More

This just in: according to a study commissioned by my tax dollars, 1 percent of the web is pr0n.

Story of My Life, In One Easy To Digest Sentence

From this week’s Escapist: Ranting on a videogame blog is like standing up in a church service and telling people how great God is and what a tricky fellow Lucifer can be.

Dudes, You All Sold Out… Oh, Wait

In what is probably a surprise to at least four people, Steve “Moorgard” Danuser and Ryan “Grouchy Gnome” Shwayder, who left SOE at roughly the same time, showed up today at Green Monster Games, the house Curt Schilling built. Danuser has more here, on his blog, as does Mr. Gnome.

Hail the Proletariat Vanguard Mouseketeers!

And you thought Marx wasn’t relevant to daily life any more. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oGIffyVVk]

Giants In The Playground

Business Week has a brief roundup of the Asian MMO market, with giants Shanda and Netease slugging it out for dominance and Korean and Western companies nosing in for a share of a market far larger than we can probably comprehend. Be sure to click on the slideshow for concept