This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
Gamasutra brings us word that Microsoft is going to enable amateurs to develop for the 360. At first, it looks like it’s for a “club” style sandbox only, not for the general public, but it does hold out hope for totally indie games to make it out to the hands of the general population someday.
Yehuda has issued a Call for Open Source Board Gaming, prompted by the fears that game mechanics are getting locked up by patents.
So I went and made a Minihome on Cyworld’s US beta to try it out. You can visit it at http://us.cyworld.com/raph if you like.
A few observations:
Business 2.0: Where to find the world’s hottest startups – Aug. 10, 2006 covers a host of Web 2.0 apps. Not all of them are what I would call “startups” anymore, but what’s notable is that two of them are associated with the virtual world space: Cyworld and Habbo Hotel.
