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Gamasutra has notes from an interesting talk on the history and nature of the Chinese MMO market. In explaining some of the essential characteristics of the Chinese online gamer, Singman cited Deutsche Bank/iResearch findings on exactly why Chinese gamers want to play online games. According to the research, 16.

Apparently, the lead singer of Iron Maiden is better at evacuating people from war zones than the US Government. Who knew.

Firefox 2 has crashed about 9… whoops, no, 10 times trying to make this blog post. I’m sure some will find that fitting given that this is a post denoting J. Henderson’s post mortem on Shadowbane and\’c2\~Wolfpack Studios. Wolfpack is now Stray Bullet Games. What’s

….which has apparently been bought by… um… someone in Montana. Yeah. I got nothin’. Sorry. However, I am encouraged by this friendly picture from the new owner’s website: In other Horizons news, David Allen might hire you, if you’re supercore enough.

Warning: following this link will actually make you stupid.

…is here. Apparently, done with the help of IGE for fact checking. “Twenty to 30 percent of gamers out there in the world object to the buying and selling of assets in the virtual world. … They don’t feel it’s fair. They think it’s cheating,” said Thomas Morelli,

I’ve been sick. I spent the past few days doing nothing besides watching cable news blearily. (That includes sleeping. As in, I haven’t been.) Apparently there is fighting in the Middle East. Who knew?