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Rumor mill goes into overdrive. As someone who’s been through rounds of layoffs: if that happened, it’s pretty crappy. As Damion commented in the F13 thread, closing the company down to liquidate outstanding debts and then sending offer letters to the employees left standing is a fairly standard

BusinessWeek reports breathlessly that Second Life may have some new competition: get this – people are playing online games not called Second Life! I know, I don’t believe it either. But it’s true! Suddenly it looks as if Second Life, that 3D virtual world that last year became a

Exploding on the forums today: In preperation for flying the top-tier Arena teams to California for an e-sports frenzy, Blizzard apparently disqualified many of them for account sharing. A writer from one of those teams had this to say: Preparing to book travel for the qualified teams, Blizzard

Microsoft claims that open source software in Linux violates 235 Microsoft-held patents. Really, honest, they counted and everything. [Microsoft’s lawyer] says that the Linux kernel – the deepest layer of the free operating system, which interacts most directly with the computer hardware – violates 42 Microsoft patents. The Linux graphical

Sure looks like it. For those just joining us: * CCP (Crowd Control Productions) are the developers of Eve Online. * Eve Online is one of if not the most popular “niche” MMOs, with hardcore PvP and even more hardcore in-game economy. * As part of that economy, until recently, there was

Second Life dropped a bomb on its merry Elysium Friday: to get into the ‘mature’ areas of Second Life (which in practice is, well, 90% of Second Life), you’re gonna have to prove you can drink legally. (A further statement here.) Second Life has always been restricted to those

David Jaffe dislikes reviews, takes ball, goes home. Penny Arcade, as always, with the trenchant prescient commentary!