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I was interviewed by an Australian radio show last month for my recent book (the show billed me as a “well known guru” and a “notorious nerd”), and the audio recording’s up now. Questions include RMT, wacky media stories about MMO players, a world filled with roleplayers, and Blizzard

As of this afternoon, I’m no longer an employee of Mythic Entertainment. The parting was on good terms on both our sides… and driven more than anything else by my family and I’s simply wanting to return to the Southwest. The fact that I’m moving on to

US military publishes plans for “The Long War“. (Thx to J, from previous comments.)

From a press conference held by the sysadmin of the Great Firewall of China: Mr. Liu also said the powers that the Bush administrations gained under the Patriot Act to monitor Web sites and e-mail communications and the deployment of technology called Carnival by the F.B.I., which

Second Life Escort Ratings (NSFW) It’s not all handcuffs and cream in Cyboria, sadly… This is all pretty good. But then things went wrong, because the people in charge of Amsterdam are skilled in banning, but not in looking after their facilities. Thus I got exposed to the extremely

Joystiq has a fascinating interview with Hoyt Ma, project manager for World of Warcraft’s Chinese distribution. The subscription model for WoW in China is different from other parts of the world. Instead of a monthly subscription fee, Chinese gamers purchase WoW Points cards for 30 Yuan ($3.64) that

1) Someone went to the trouble of analyzing profanity usage online in Halo 2. Sure, you knew it was there, but did you know there were 0.23 more racial epithets than averrals of sexual preference per hour? 0.23. Hm. That would be, like “ga” but you know, that