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According to reports from Korea, the National Assembly (the Korean legislature) is considering a bill that will make trading in virtual gold a crime, specifically with fines assessed on companies that buy and sell the stuff. Ted Castronova from Terra Nova sees this as a long-needed shot across IGE’s

Checking my referral logs, I noticed something amidst the flotsam of spam fake referrals, google searches for Jessica Chobot porn, and the odd message board post: Scott Jennings labels Scott Jennings King of the Dorks, decries pedophilia spreading among the Scott Jennings community Part of this is, of course, my

This atypical bit of straight reporting done as a courtesy for Kain Shin and Quoc Tran of the Austin chapter of the IGDA. If you’re not a game developer, your interest in this article may be lessened. Or heightened, depending. If you ARE an Austin area game developer, and

As seen in this podcast description of his frothy/ing radio show, Bill O’Reilly just plain doesn’t like you. Did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them? \’e2\’80\’a6I really fear for the United States because, believe

Press release Federal search warrants were served on owners of L2Extreme who were also questioned during the raid. L2Extreme was providing its users with unauthorized service and code for NCsoft’s online computer game, Lineage\’c2\’ae II. The warrants enabled officials to halt L2Extreme’s operations while collecting further

Matt Mihaly, who is among the few paying attention to a game you probably never heard of that makes a LOT of money, posted a story about how they sent legal threats to a site that charges for gold-farming guides. That company (whom I am carefully not naming!) sent a

OK, it’s not THAT bad. Quite a bit actually to hit on. Two clueless mainstream news stories, take your pick. From Slate: World of Warcraft is lame, because it’s not more like Second Life. The most obvious thing to add is customization. The MySpace generation expects a personalized