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Hidden in a Guardian story about the general Icelandic economic collapse: On three shiny floors of a former fish factory is CCP, a company best known in computer gaming for Eve Online, which has 300,000 participants all over the world – as many inhabitants as Iceland itself. However, restrictions on

It’s time for PREDICTIONS, that being the job of every pundit this time of year. But first, let’s see how I did last year so you can judge whether or not you should bother to read the rest of this post! This is going to be a slow

Maybe I’m the last one to hear about this, but saw this on an F13 thread: the Crown Prince of Dubai is providing backing for Europe’s most notorious uberguild. Ensidia is a joint effort by members of two of the top guilds in World of Warcraft, with the

Turbine lays off QA/CS staff just in time for the holidays

Hollywood is ‘crafting’ a movie based around the mindblowing spectre that MMOs may be bad for you. The story focuses on a married man who spends as many as twenty hours a day on a computer, existing through an avatar who is a thriving, musclebound entrepreneur. In reality, he is

Comments will be disabled blog-wide before the move later today, and re-enabled when DNS sorts itself out at the new place. In the meantime, an elegant discussion of MMO design theory. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhW76BIwP4

FCC commissioner terms World of Warcraft a leading cause of college dropouts