Just got this email announcement for VW2007. Alas, I won’t be there (I have a prior commitment for ETech — I’ll post about that when the details are final) but Areae will have John Donham there. 🙂

Virtual Worlds Conference – email update – February 2, 2007 Virtual Worlds Conference takes place March 28 – 29, 2007 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

1. Keynote address by Matt Bostwick, SVP, Franchise Development at MTV Music Group
2. Featured Speakers Announced
3. A Thank You to VW 2007 Sponsors
4 Early Registration Ends February 23rd – Save $400

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Peacemaker is out. For those who haven’t been following this serious game effort, it’s a title where you take the role of PM of either Israel or the Palestine Authority and attempt to make everyone happy enough to bring about lasting peace.

There are two good articles on it already: Ernest Adamds at Gamasutra and Sott Jennings at Broken Toys. Different takes, and they reference different classic games: Balance of Power versus Hidden Agenda.

The fact that we only have three significant games in this genre in 17 years is a little depressing.

I probably need to get this guitar-based music toy for the Nintendo DS. Press a direction on the DPad to reach different chords, and strum with the stylus. It’s an import only, but it’s not region-locked…

The default chord layout is missing the B and Bm chords. What’s up with that? No way to blues in E by default!

Here’s some videos of it:
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