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Drew Carey goes on dates with fiancee inside Second Life
Filed under: Real life, Second LifeThe next time you see a couple being cutesy in SL, it might just be Drew Carey and his fiancee. According to PARADE Magazine, they use Second Life to go on dates when...
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Taatu launches English beta
Filed under: Betas, Real life, News items, Habbo Hotel, Free-to-play, Browser, CasualTaatu, founded in Belgium in 2005, looks very much like Habbo Hotel. The similarities of visual styling and target...
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Social currency and giving in MMOs
Filed under: Real life, Culture, Economy, OpinionSFGate.com takes on virtual giving in MMOs, with pretty accurate results-- they cover everything from Facebook (is that an MMO?) to Habbo Hotel, and...
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Kzero forecasts virtual world growth through 2008
Filed under: MMO industry, Club Penguin, News items, Second Life, Habbo Hotel, Virtual worlds UK-based virtual world consulting and research firm Kzero have put out a predictions for virtual worlds for...
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New MMOSG: Sociotown
Filed under: At a glance, Real life, Video, Game mechanics, New titles, Previews, Opinion, Second Life, Habbo Hotel, Virtual worldsA new MMOSG (that's Massively Multiplayer Online Social Game, which I...
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More thoughts for the future in Second Life and beyond
Filed under: News items, Opinion, Second Life, EducationIt being the end of the year, people are prognosticating like mad. Analysts for Second Life and virtual worlds are no exception. This time it's...
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GDC08: Sulka Haro tells us how to Habbo
Filed under: Business models, Culture, MMO industry, Habbo Hotel, Casual, Virtual worlds, Massively Event CoverageSulka Haro, lead designer on the wildly popular Habbo Hotel virtual world, yesterday...
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GDC08: Thinking outside the virtual world
Filed under: Culture, Events, real-world, Virtual worlds Tuesday afternoon, Michael Acton Smith, CEO of Mind Candy, presented attendees at the GDC's Worlds in Motion summit with an interesting look at...
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Does it get any better?
Filed under: Real life, New titles, Free-to-play, Browser, Casual, Virtual worlds Take an advertising/marketing operation and mix it with a virtual world, and what do you get? No, not There -- well,...
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Bad News Week: Shock! Horror! Crime wave!
Filed under: Opinion, Second Life, Habbo Hotel, Virtual worldsIn Bad News Week, we take an irregular peek at some of the most mixed up and counterfactual reporting that the mainstream media performs on...
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Webkinz, Habbo, Linden Lab make list of top 25 most valuable startups
Filed under: Real life, Business models, Economy, MMO industry, Making money, Second Life, Habbo Hotel, Webkinz, KidsThe Silicon Alley Insider has the latest iteration of its "World's Most Valuable...
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Virtual worlds without interoperability are dead worlds, Swaminathan
Filed under: MMO industry, Second Life, Habbo Hotel, Virtual worldsKishore Swaminathan, chief scientist for IT consulting firm Accenture is skeptical about the long-term success of non-game virtual...
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One billion people will flock to virtual worlds by 2017
Filed under: Business models, News items, Virtual worldsMarket research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics has forecasted a surge in virtual world registrations over roughly the next decade. The...
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"Free-To-Play" model pulls in a dollar per user in the west
Filed under: Business models, News items, Free-to-play, Casual, Virtual worldsOne dollar per user per month may not sound like a huge revenue for any game, but when you start thinking in the terms of...
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Virtual Greats to sell celebrity likenesses
Filed under: Business models, Culture, Economy, MMO industry, News items, Second Life, Habbo Hotel, Virtual worlds, Gaia OnlineAnd not just likenesses. Metaverse developer Millions of Us intends to...
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Habbo crests 100 million avatar milestone
Filed under: Events, in-game, News items, Habbo Hotel, Virtual worlds One hundred million. 100 million. 100,000,000. No matter how you look at it, it's an extraordinarily large number. It's the number...
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Where is Second Life going?
Filed under: MMO industry, Opinion, Second Life Where is it all going? With an MMOG you already know: Content updates, free and paid expansions, and so forth. A broadening and sometimes also a...
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Keen Teens? Not on MMOGs/Virtual Worlds, study finds
Filed under: Culture, MMO industry, News items, Opinion, Academic, Virtual worlds Pew Research has just published results of a study into American teens focusing on video games and civics, entitled...
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Plenty of gaming options for today's 'tweens
Filed under: Business models, Culture, MMO industry, Free-to-play, KidsAccording to this MSNBC article, there are no less than 200 youth-oriented virtual worlds and MMOs either in development or on the...
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Massively speaks with Sparkplay Media's CEO on Earth Eternal
Filed under: Fantasy, Business models, New titles, Free-to-play, Browser, Casual, Earth Eternal, Massively Interviews With Sparkplay Media's first game, Earth Eternal, going into beta, we got the...
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