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Another in Shacknews’ fascinating history of Eve’s conflicts, this one looks at the origin of Goonswarm’s partnership with the Red Alliance. “For two years, Lotka Volterra and the Southern Coalition fighting RA would basically fling every racist stereotype about Russians onto the forums that you could imagine,” says

According to this not at all alarmist report, 60% of all trojans on the Interweb are aimed at online games. 40 per cent of all trojans are aimed at Lineage 2 with Blizzard’s World of Warcraft being the second most popular target with 20 per cent of all known

Incorruptible Warrior, the truly bizarre anti-graft game from the land of some truly bizarre MMOs, has gone offline. This translation of a Chinese newspaper article has some details of the game: When you kill a corrupt official, you gain experience points. For example, killing the notorious eunuch official Wei Zhongxian

Everyone likes World Of Warcraft. Or drinking heavily. In his talks, Raph Koster bemoaned more than once how Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime’s keynote address was to a full house, while Sulka Haro and Min Kim (of Habbo Hotel and Kart Rider fame, respectively) gave audiences to less packed audiences,

Linden Lab has put up their “SL Grid” platform documentation site, which Prokofy Neva wonders if this is a first step towards outsourcing servers. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to stuff my cat in a carrier and take her to the vet to get her ears operated

If you’re coming to town for AGDC (I’ll be there – not speaking this year, but prowling the halls looking for victims, er, recruits) and don’t know what to do when blowing off the “Here’s What I Did And Why You Should Pay My Company Money” lecture,

From my new favorite webcomic ever.