Kotaku:
In just over a month since the release of Star Wars Galaxies Chronicle Master mission creation tool, fans have created more than three million pieces of interactive Star Wars fiction. The Chronicle Master system works much like City of Heroes Mission Architect, allowing players to use in-game tools to create their own miss (Read More)
Kotaku:
World of Warcraft finally adds a virtual Thanksgiving celebration to it's lineup of seasonal holidays, and just like the real Thanksgiving, Pilgrim's Bounty is mainly about cooking and eating. I knew something was missing from World of Warcraft. If I am going to be nearly comatose from eating brown food, then my WoW charac (Read More)
Kotaku:
World of Warcraft finally adds a virtual Thanksgiving celebration to it's lineup of seasonal holidays, and just like the real Thanksgiving, Pilgrim's Bounty is mainly about cooking and eating. I knew something was missing from World of Warcraft. If I am going to be nearly comatose from eating brown food, then my WoW charac (Read More)
The Guardian:
Great animation dominates this week's web videos – including what happens when pigeons get the bombGet ready for amazing animations this week on the viral video chart. In fact, with Spacious Thought, Pigeon:Impossible and Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No, there are three real beauties in our top 10 – and honestly I don't know whi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Changing connections "Green Card Lawyers" [Usenet spam] and "My Naked Wife" [email virus] arose (War beneath the web, 12 November) because they could. Both Usenet and email were successful among early adopters, but neither could really adapt to their eventual parasites. The web has become popular too, and also has issues wi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Prepare for cyberwarMcAfee's fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report says some of the world's leading countries are arming themselves for cyberwar.More opting for OpteronThe world's three fastest supercomputers now use AMD Opteron processors, though Intel-based systems still have 80% of the Top 500.UK gets Binged!Microsoft (Read More)
Kotaku:
With the real world lacking in loot, Marc Owens set forth on a project to make it appear more like an MMO, by crafting himself a suit that would look more at home in WOW than on the BUS. Owens' built his"Avatar Machine" costume to "[replicate]the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view thems (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Six years after creating Second Life, Philip Rosedale announced that he would be focusing on a new project. Shrouded in mystery, the Linden Chairman and fellow Lindenite Ryan Downe began work in October on Love Machine Inc. Said Rosedale in today's blog post, "Yes, we are working on making a version of the Linden Lab LoveMa (Read More)
Kotaku:
Looking for early access to Funcom's intriguining new current-day MMO The Secret World? Is it worth three months of Age of Conan to you? Funcom wants you back in Age of Conan, and they want you back bad. As of today, they are offering a free two weeks of Age of Conan to returning players, with some rather special incentive (Read More)
Kotaku:
Teased in 2007 and finally revealed earlier this year, Guild Wars 2 still has a long road ahead of it, with NCsoft revealing that the game won't be out until sometime in 2011. We've been following Guild Wars 2 since the first stirrings back in 2007, through the scrapped beta and onwards to this year's big reveal. According (Read More)
Kotaku:
Let me get this out of the way: I'm not a Trekkie. I was a loyal Star Wars fan until the prequels and thereafter switched my science fiction allegiance to Neal Stephenson. So forgive me if I can't come up with enough Star Trek quips or effectively weigh in on the Kirk vs. Picard debate. I can, at best, recite the lines from (Read More)
Kotaku:
Zach Gage says his riff on Space Invaders isn't maliciously designed software made to destroy your computer files — though it might do that. It's a more thoughtful project than that. Lose/Lose is about values and value. It's about what happens if a "Game Over" screen destroys your copy of the game, as happens with Gage's ga (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
It's even harder to adapt to the digital gale sweeping through publishing when big 'old-media' stories about canonical authors are still grabbing everyone's attentionWilliam Goldman, who wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is almost as well known for his coruscating portrait of the movie business, Adventures in the Sc (Read More)
Kotaku:
TABLE OF CONTENTS November 2009 Massage Games Don't Always Have Happy Endings The Xbox Massage-Makers: Money, Sex Toys & Indie Backlash by Stephen Totilo Intervention I Kept Playing - The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction by Mike Fahey Meet The FAQers For Little Money And In Many Words, These Gamers Help You by Owen Good (Read More)
Kotaku:
GameSpot reports that a man has sued Sony, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment of America, contending the company violates the Americans with Disabilities Act for not making its virtual worlds more easily navigable by the visually impaired. The nature of Alexander Stern's visual impairment isn't clear (Read More)