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The virtual world of EVE Online now has an official economist , Eyjólfur Guðmundsson: Some of you may have read in various articles and int...

How's this for proof that virtual worlds can have real-world consequences? An online game operator has demanded that banned players don...

Just when you think there can't be any areas left uncolonised by free software, you discover treeCAD . (Via MMORPG .)

Raph Koster points out that setting up a MMORPG is pretty cheap these days: even the top-end SmartFox system , which is Java-based, costs j...

If online games and virtual worlds are becoming realistic to the point of blurring the boundary with the real world, it is perhaps inevitabl...

Whether we like it or not, this is something of a milestone : Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft, its subsc...

More signs of the times: Disney CEO Bob Iger showed off the revamped Disney.com during his CES keynote yesterday, but there was little &quo...

So the hope that Ryzom.org might turn into a major open source MMORPG didn't work out (although there are discussions about building ...

Far be it from me to give any publicity to the arch-enemy Disney (hawk, spit), but this story about the latter's plans for a MMORPG spi...

A couple of weeks back, I wrote about attempts to take the MMORPG Ryzom open source; now it seems that these have received a big boost fro...

Talking of the blurring of distinction between life and games, here's a great rumination on certain aspects of modern China (a subject ...

Blender is a fine 3D modelling package, with a remarkable history : The "Free Blender" campaign sought to raise 100,000 EUR so tha...

Talking of RL and SL, this extremely witty piece is deeper than you might think: Volumes have already been written about real life, the mos...

Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people know him as one of the world's greatest composers: ...