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Oh dear : Worried that virtual currencies from online games could undermine the country’s financial system, Beijing has taken steps to restr...

Sun continues its progress through the ranks of open source supporters, hurtling fast towards top-spot as Richard Stallman's Number 1 fr...

Anything that talks about HTML5 and XHTML5 gets my attention pretty quickly. I don't pretend to understand all the implications of this...

For those who dismiss Second Life as "just a game" here's a thought : The more interesting question is why people keep repeati...

Raph Koster has an interesting meditation on another interesting meditation on, er, ganking: Ganking is defined as “someone powerful attac...

I'm such a sucker for a good bit of meta : A meta-guild -- i.e., a guild with a presence across a number of virtual worlds and/or MMOs -...

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...

As the boundary between online games, online worlds, and even the real world all starts to deliquesce, here's an interesting essay on w...

One of things I have come to appreciate, albeit rather belatedly, is how gamer culture is going mainstream. By that, I don't just mean ...

Here's a thoughtful analysis of another harmful knock-on effect of the loss of network neutrality: What will be murdered with no fallba...