I think I have mentioned before my affection for Blokus, a wonderful board game about placing pieces on a grid, but they are only allowed to touch at the corners.

Well, now Blokus Trigon is out, and the pieces are built out of triangles instead of squares.

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Article centered on China, with more of the usual figures and a good glimpse into the culture of it there.

It’s been an ill-kept secret, but now it’s official that Cartoon Network will have an MMO.

Yet another in the march of the major media licenses. Interestingly, this one looks to be following the free play model, with microtransactions. It will be interesting to see how kids + microtransactions mixes in the Western market.

Business Week Online just published an article on new media and community that’s an excerpt from Henry Jenkins‘ new book. Edit: Looks like it came originally from Next Generation. It heavily references the work that we did early on in SWG in building community.

These days, it sure seems like there’s a mixed reaction to how the community is handled, but I do think we did a pretty good job back then, and at the time it was widely referenced as a model.

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