Month: March 2009
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Entropia becomes a bank
Ars Technica reports that Project Entropia and MindArk are in the process of getting an actual banking license.
…a Swedish video game developer has been granted preliminary approval for a real banking license by the Swedish Finance Supervisory…
…the game itself has proven to be incredibly successful, having generated over $420 million last year.
Now, though, MindArk’s going to be just like a bank in the real world: it will be backed by Sweden’s $60,000 deposit insurance, offer interest-bearing accounts for its clients, feature direct deposit options, let players pay bills online, and apparently will offer loans to customers.
And another long-standing prediction among virtual world watchers begins to come true: that virtual worlds would eventually become fiduciary institutions.
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BBC Click checks out Metaplace
Alas, I can’t embed a BBC vid here, apparently, so here’s the link:
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Webscape: Best of the web from Click.
Seems like they liked it. 🙂
Lots of other blog posts about Metaplace all over the place, by the way… but I don’t have time to assemble a link list right now…
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Tetris HD … still going…
Remember that bad idea of a giant Tetris? This is what it looks like after two weeks.
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GDC and GamesBeat next week
Next week I will be at GDC in San Francisco, and also at GamesBeat ’09, but only for half the week. I’m not speaking very much — a couple of very short presentations. I’ll kick off the Worlds in Motion Summit with a look at the big trends over the last year in virtual worlds, and I’ll be giving a little bit of a forward-looking glance at the next ten years of games at GamesBeat.
As usual, I will try to liveblog (and this year, tweet!) sessions as I can, but honestly, I don’t know how many sessions I will get to attend…!