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Google Lively: The Last Virtual World You’ll Ever Desire. Complete with microtransactions! More coverage: C-Net, Gamasutra. I expected someone to launch a Second Life competitor this year. I didn’t expect it to be the largest Internet company on the planet. Google is uniquely poised to validate this

Real anarchists use CSS. Real anarchists totally drop out of school. Real anarchists know Creative Commons licenses are totally tools of the Man. Real anarchists don’t believe in mp3s. Real anarchists aren’t down with stolen credit cards. Real anarchists believe the Internet should be the domain of “misguided

Missed this the first time it went around, so those of you who religiously read Raph Koster’s site (you should!) already saw this. (I noticed it when a link popped up on Quarter to Three.) MMOs are pretty popular in China these days. And Chinese players already have a

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wset9i4b0b4] Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information. Well, then.

Let’s see, you have lumthemad.net which used to be some ranty blog or another, and is NOT lumthemad.com, which features a blonde woman reading a newspaper and a link to stories about the female libido, and MOST DEFINITELY not lumthemad.org which is another site entirely, and

I know, it sounds wacky, but EA is considering taking The Sims… Online. A senior executive at Electronic Arts (EA), the company which owns the Sims franchise, said that in light of the popularity of virtual worlds and other computer games which allow players to compete with each other via

Wow, this is not the kind of thing you want to be telling your playerbase. I gave up on AoC after my initial month expired, but more from the high system requirements beating me into submission than anything else (my PC, to be fair, is 3 to 4 years old)