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I am unsurprised to see that there is a fresh paper out that states that there are strong mathematical commonalities between gang formation and guild formation. (I am also unsurprised to see Nic Ducheneaut and Nick Yee among the authors of the paper).
In particular, we find that the ...
Gaming
World of Warcraft
Driven
Another month, another concert. This one is for Charity Day, another MacZ event in Metaplace. It runs from 2pm-4pm Pacific time. You can get there at this link: http://www.metaplace.com/thestage/play
Or right here, if you can see this world embed:
Head up the stairs and through the ...
Gaming
Music
I am playing a live web concert tomorrow, from 2 to 4 pm Pacific , in Metaplace. The set list will be completely different — no overlaps — from the Halloween show. As before, it’ll be just me and a guitar, streaming live to the world.
I’ll have the world embedded here ...
Gaming
Some of them anyway. Go here for Adventure, Asteroids, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Lunar Lander, and Yars’ Revenge . They look to have been recreated quite faithfully, in Flex maybe?
The mouse works in Crystal Castles. Don’t forget the level skip you can do by going to the back ...
Gaming
Atari
Asteroids
BattleZone
danah boyd gave a talk at Web2.0Expo that I thought made some great points.
The irony is this: while she gave her talk, the Twitter backchannel was being projected up behind her, where she could not see it. She was in fact in an attention battle with every Tweeter there. On top of that, she ...
Gaming
http://www.metaplace.com/TheStage/play
Head on through the doors on the second level of the lobby to the stage proper.
Gaming
Alexander
I first met Jesse at an event at MIT, where we had a mutual fanboy moment. Now every time his name pops up on a TV screen I get to point it out to the kids. He’s a big thinker on transmedia — the ways in which stories can cross between many media and be “read” at ...
Gaming
Alexander
Ugh, yet another country…
Last Thursday in Venezuela, a new law criminalizing “violent” video games and toys was approved by the National Assembly.
The law scapegoats gamers for the obscene levels of violence in our country (see below), and goes to extraordinary lengths ...
Gaming
DS
Defendin' De Penguin
Massively is reporting that WoW is caught in the battle between the Ministry of Culture and the General Administration of Press and Publication over who gets to regulate online games — and has been denied permission to operate (again).
The Ministry of Culture was, I believe, the arm of ...
