Today, the BBC news, technology section, released an article entitled “Universal avatars bestride worlds” It seems that IBM and Linden Lab are working on a way to allow avatars created in one virtual word to travel to another virtual world.

The BBC News Technology section recently posted an article on Metaplace, a new web application developed by Areae Inc and Raph Koster , that will allow anyone to set up a virtual world online. I think this is an interesting new development and I look forward to seeing more about this as the product […]

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In the Technology section of NewScientist.com, David Robson reports on a study by researchers at the University of Southern California, the Palo Alto Research Center and the University of Deleware that dispel some common assumptions about gamers. Here’s a link to the article.
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The article is short and the study focused on one MMO, Everquest II; […]

In this the christening post of pause-ponder-play, let me share with you a moment which arrived in the guise of the ordinary, but offered an insight that has helped me understand how I’ve come to be where I am today. I am a graduate student and a teaching assistant. In my duty as a teaching […]