Today I see this link to Limbo, a game which offers up a different visual aesthetic, but gameplay that looks like a clever elaboration of traditional platforming.

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Eyes usually go wide when I describe what it is like for the gamer in South Korea. Fortunately, people no longer have to believe my outlandish stories, because The New York Times has published an article on it.

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Red Herring has an article on Weblo, an example of crossover between real world data and virtual worlds. There’s also a CNet article. It appears to basically be a money speculation game, using real world data as inputs: mostly geography, in the examples, but also things like celebrity likenesses, domain names, and so on. Among the tidbits in the article are that it’s pulling in $90 a minute. Impressive, if so.

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I’ve mentioned State of Play IV before, but I just got a reminder email about it asking in part to help with publicizing the conference, so… here I am, publicizing the conference. It does look like I’ll be there on a panel as well.

Also, if you are someone who might make sense as a sponsor for the conference, which has a multiple-year history of really making a significant contribution to the virtual world scene, please do consider being a sponsor.

The set of speakers does look very good, with some voices that we don’t get to hear very often: Unggi Yoon no doubt discussing the state of law and virtual worlds in South Korea, for example.