Online games are evolving. Originally they were flight simulators and card games, they moved into dragon slaying and science fiction, now they are teaching communism. In the exciting game Learn from Lei Feng you get to sew socks and strive to make your clothes more average. If you are lucky you get to meet [...]

Raph Koster is one of the leading lights among online game designers and he has posted up his lessons from online games. As usual with gaming posts it will mean nothing to you if you haven’t played them, but you know exactly what he is talking about if you have ever played any of them. [...]

Sales of online items are big. Bigger than you think they are. So far nobody official has noticed them really, but with the money being passed around it is only a matter of time before the government wants their piece of the action. Julian Dibble writes about some of the tax implications in this article [...]

Here is a brilliant flash movie that sums up massive multiplayer online games very, very well. I do enjoy them, but this is spot on. As usual with these this is much funnier if you have ever played one of these games, but having played any of them you will find it accurate. There is [...]

A new developer making very big promises is tauting a new online game called Africa.  This article on MTV news is filled with some big claims, but if the game is anything like the description it could be a ton of fun. The hype level is pretty high though, so I will take a standing [...]

The Escapist has an amusing article about what happens when a wizard tries to hand out a beginner’s quest in the real world. Apparently only young women seek experience in the real world. Also check out a great article on whether you can role play in online games by John Tynes. Tynes does some of [...]

Fear of Girls is a movie mocking the truly hard core of the role playing game world. I want to dislike it for picking on easy targets but it is pretty funny and sadly like most I knew some who fit this pretty closely. Worth a look.
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Very interesting application called OGLE that lets you extract 3D images from computer games and the like and print them out on the various modelling printers on the market. They are hugely expensive printers at the moment, but someday you can have your own action figures of you in game characters. If I was [...]

Interesting story in TGdaily about how some groups are now testing group members english skills before going into a dungeon with them on the online game World of Warcraft. I will be honest, I am find I am less concerned with the english skills of a player I group with, though good english is [...]

Last weekend was Blizzcon, a convention for fans of the computer games maker Blizzard. Blizzard makes the Warcraft series of games, as well as the popular Diablo and Starcraft games. Anyhow, the clever lads from NotAddicted went to the show and have come back with a series of yearbook like entries of ‘most likely to’s. [...]