Scott Jennings

An interesting opinion here that states, bluntly: Apple has no real corporate interest in the gaming community and does not see computer games as a path to success or a better image for Apple. Why, given the multi-billion dollar level of return on investment in gaming? Well… uh… they’

CNet has an interesting article questioning Second Life’s fiscal sanity: “Second Life” currently runs on 2,579 servers that use the dual-core Opteron chip produced by AMD. Each server is responsible for an individual “sim,” or 16 acres of virtual “Second Life” land. At peak usage that means

Raph Koster weighs in with a fascinating discussion of what went into UO’s gloriously failed ecology design. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). The last big element, however, was that there were a fair amount of team members who saw the whole system as a boondoggle, and not worth

Police seize video games in a killer’s apartment based on Jack Thompson’s advice. “Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you’re a hit man or a video gamer,” Thompson told the paper. (Link, and bad joke, from q23)

If you haven’t already seen it on Olbermann’s Countdown on MSNBC, this is probably the best bit of journalism you will see this year. If you HAVE seen it – the investigative reporter in question (“CARL MONNNDAY!”) has a blog. And comments. Woah nelly, has he got comments.

From the crack Fox News investigative team: Your kids are DOWNLOADING PORN FROM THIN AIR RIGHT NOW OH NO OH NO (I’d really like to believe Amber Night made this up.)