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While visiting the virtual-economy.org blog for yet another wacky SL story (“Sweden establishes an embassy in SL! OMG!“) I noted something interesting; some anonymous comments to a very old story about IGE’s acquisitions, that read as though they are sour grapes from persons recently let go. Bear

Today from Davos, we have this observation from Mitch Kapor of Linden Labs (courtesy of the UK Independent): Mitch Kapor, the father of Lotus and chairman of Linden Lab – a $11m revenue company that is expected to double in size this year – thinks Second Life could help the world to

Apparently finding housing in San Francisco is now an epic quest.

Hard to say, but this screenshot is making the rounds: eBay’s proactively removing RMT auctions is huge in and of itself. However, there’s another side to this: note the MMO being referenced in the CS chat. Note that UO is one of the few MMOs that permit RMT,

This just in: Pope Benedict XVI dislikes video games. Who would have guessed? Any trend to produce programmes and products – including animated films and video games – which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behaviour or the trivialization of human sexuality is a perversion, all the

So Europa Universalis III is out. And everyone knows what a Paradox fanboi I am, so clearly I should be raving about this! My initial impressions aren’t that good. It’s UGLY. This is using a new 3D engine for Paradox and… it’s just bad. Sure, the screenshots

Exhibit A: First Life! Exhibit B: Linden Legal Responds! We do not believe that reasonable people would argue as to whether the website located at http://www.getafirstlife.com/ constitutes parody – it clearly is. Linden Lab is well known among its customers and in the general business community as a