Game talk

In the apparently neverending discussion thread on the Metaverse Summit, I seem to have been assigned the role of Second Life skeptic or even opponent, despite this not being my intention. In fact, it’s rather odd, since in some circles I am considered a staunch SL defender, whereas in others I am the skeptic…! I guess I have different avatars for different social worlds…

In a post over at his blog, Cory Ondrejka writes,

Would you be willing to give up on online game exceptionalism? 🙂

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Neither is new, but I think I haven’t blogged ’em before:

Google moves into virtual worlds, which pretty much everybody I know in the Bay Area has been talking about for weeks now… and

this article about the PCD Music Lounge, which is notable because it’s a custom virtual world designed for a band as a promotional tool.

Here’s a fantastic resource: Martin Rytter’s History Database of videogame events, which uses the timeline and lots more as a source, searchable, filterable and even exportable! Apparently it’s part of his thesis work on MMOGs.

Oh, look, I’m trivia.

The discussion with Prokofy Neva in the comment thread here has gotten interesting, I think, for those who aren’t watching it already.

I am not at E3 today. I was there yesterday. I only spent 2 hours on the show floor, alas, the rest was in meetings. This means I didn’t really get to see any games.

On the second night of the Metaverse Summit, I had dinner with an interesting bunch of folks, including Daniel Terdiman, the reporter whose articles on the Summit appear to have been reprinted everywhere on the planet; Nicole Lazzaro of XEODesign; Max Skibinsky of Hive7; and Ron Meiners, community expert extraordinaire. (There were another 9 or so folks at the dinner, but we ended up all at different tables).

Given the diversity of the group, it was only natural that we should end up talking about sex.
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