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“Outside” MMORPG reviewed: Thjis is a review of the new MMORPG called outside. Apparently it sucks. Speaking of safety, despite the hostility of many of the players and the depth of the PvP system, it’s considered bad form to attack anyone except under very strict, very controlled circumstances. This is ...

Help for an MMORPG Addict?: An interesting conversation over at Slashdot. A friend of mine has had what many of us (his peers) are starting to consider a serious problem that we are becoming very worried about. He is addicted to World of Warcraft, and not in the same way ...

The Great Scam: I found this story via Boing Boing. It's the detailed description of how a guy scammed several other players in Eve Online out of 480 million credits. This is a story of deception, intrigue, and doublecrossing. It is a story of liars, bandits, and greed. It is ...

The Gaming Open Market - Welcome: Our first available service is the GOM Currency Exchange (GCX). The GCX makes buying and selling your game currency incredibly easy with our market overview and historical charting. Each currency has its own page where we consolidate all buyers and sellers giving you the ...

Flippage: An interesting article. Here's a quote, which should tell you quite accurately whether or not you actually want to read it. [...] he broke the conventions of in-game roleplay: Instead of playing a female mage wandering the lands of Aden in the name of Einhasad, Flippage was playing a ...

Earth Fires Destabilize Virtual Governments: Fascinating concept at work in EverQuest. The widefires raging in California have closed Sony's customer support center. "In other words, a firestorm has knocked out the government that rules over 750,000 accounts. There will be no police officers on the streets tonight. If you're in ...

Programmers Heaven -> Art_MultiplayerGames: Yeah, this is what we need: taking fake items and making them worth real money. "This paper will propose a revenue model for massively multiplayer gaming based on copying the real world economy enough to give players a more exciting game. By allowing and encouraging the ...

Google to test rival to Second Life : This would be something. You have to wonder to what end they re interested in this. Google is thought to be set to trial an online virtual universe based on its popular satellite imagery software that would rival Second Life. Arizona State University students ...

Real Life: The Full Review: This could be the greatest MMORPG ever created.

Welcome to There.com!: There is a combination of The Sims, Microsoft Comic Chat, and a MMORPG. It's a world where you can be yourself...somewhere else. I think this has been tried before, but the screencaps are cool, at any rate.

Project details for phpMMORPG: Cool. Check out the screencap. phpMMORPG is a Web interface that can be used to create an MMORPG with a back-end which permits users of the interface to create their own games. It features real-time chat, a map editor, a template system, a quest box, PVP, ...

Two things I found in the last few days have got me thinking about online personas. Second Life The New York Times did a big article this week about the MMORPG Second Life and how many people are using that game as alternate versions of their own lives. From the ...

Crave Entertainment to distribute 'Tringo': This guy wrote a computer game...inside of another computer game -- the MMORPG Second Life. It's the world's first recursive video game. Tringo, a cross between Tetris and bingo, was created by New Zealander Nathan Keir in Second Life, an online game where players have ...

Storage takes starring role in tech gizmo sales pitch: We went through a long period a few years ago when hard drive size was so abstract. Discs had gotten so big compared the stuff we put on them, that increases in hard drive space didn't really matter to anyone. I ...

Man buys virtual space station for $100,000: Another crazy purchase in an MMORPG. Jon Jacobs, a director of independent films, plans to call the space resort, in the science-fiction themed game Project Entropia, "Club Neverdie." Like other land areas in the game that has been visited by 300,000 players, the ...