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Amongst the seemingly never-ending navel gazing prompted by any public mention of SWG (and especially the NGE), Steve “Moorgard” Danuser brings up a point that’s been rubbing me the wrong way for a while now: Online games and virtual worlds are not the same thing. If you’re building

World of Warcraft actually is aimed at seven year olds.

Allen Varney follows up his earlier NGE story for the Escapist with the coda of Jeff Freeman’s adventures in blogging, thus proving that it’s never wise to actually blog about what you’re doing at work, because enterprising writers will dredge it up years later to prove a

NotAddicted has an interesting interview with the proprietor of a stateside gold farming operation which was hit hard by bannings Monday. [22:35] <Frybread> Do you do those in-game advertisements? Tell spam or group invite spam? [22:35] <The Botter> no, worst thing ever. If someone

Rumors had abounded that venture capital had dabbled in the RMT industry before (specifically Goldman Sachs and IGE) but today comes the announcement of a new player: Sparter, funded by Bessemer Venture Partners. TechCrunch, a dot-com zine, has some analysis:  eBay is one place where gamers currently try to trade

Wanting to know what exactly my team’s been working on for the past year or so? Well, one sure way to find out is to join up so that you can sign all the required Ninja Domination Authorizations (NDA for short). Anyway, these are all going up on the

Russian ninja terrorizes Italy