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Bit of a tempest in the nascent Star Wars: Old Republic community boards today, when a player discovered that such words as “gay”, “lesbian” and “cryptofascist” were added to the obscenity filter. The forums nerd raged about this until the Bioware CM, Sean Dahlberg posted that the words were being

Years ago, John Smedley gave a keynote address at AGDC, which amounted to, in so many words, “the future of the MMO market is in Asia. And I’m going to bring it to America.” Tomorrow, the culmination of that launches, as Freerealms moves swiftly from open beta to release.

Hey, look, it’s WoW on an iPhone! I’d type up my reaction to this, but Thomas Bidaux (formerly of NC Europe, now running his own consultancy) said what I would have already, and probably in greater detail. (tl;dr version: nice technical achievement, not actually playable, but the

i want to make game it may be awesome or not i want to make game — Matthew Weigel’s awesome whiteboard haiku/commentary on game development Do YOU want to make game? Then you probably blog about it! Cuppycake tried to be controversial and failed on the topic, because everyone

Just when you thought it was safe to read the web, Second Life is in the news again. This time they are being sued by Taser International (who make, you know, tasers) because SL users are creating tasers in game and using them in bizarre sadomasochistic rituals. Dear god in

Sadly, quite a bit.

Copied from stopthecap.com which is being hammered for obvious reasons: netizens combined with congresscritters wanting to be netizens (or just look like them) scare off Time Warner’s planned bandwidth money grab. For now. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and I stood side by side this afternoon in front