Wii are the World… An Advent of Communications Games?
October 27th, 2007
Two interesting articles by the Virtual Worlds News and Next-Gen.biz about recent rumors suggesting that Nintendo’s next version of Wii’s Animal Crossing game will have massively multiplayer functionality and be set as a social networking MMO. As VWN states, such a development will be a continuation of a trend with this particular game: “…Previous versions […]
Read more »3D Retailing: Virtumall Reality?
October 22nd, 2007
The Boston Globe recently reviewed Kinset Inc., an online store start-up which claims to “combine e-commerce with the kind of visually rich, three-dimensional environment that have been made popular by the virtual world Second Life and such videogames as World of Warcraft, but that would feel familiar to a conventional department store shopper.” We are […]
Read more »WoW… Real Americans
October 22nd, 2007
Ran across Cory Doctorow’s insight that there are 4x as many WoW players as farmers in the U.S., and then noticed the Wikinomics’ gang’s take on his post as well. As the latter points out: “…new collaborative media present different way of thinking about social interaction and collaboration. However, when you talk about ‘mass collaboration’ […]
Read more »World War 3(D)?
October 22nd, 2007
Eric Rice offered an interesting take on what he describes as a forthcoming “epic battle” between Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Earth that might affect the emerging mirror and virtual world marketplace. Intriguing excerpts below, but perhaps of most note is Rice’s discussion of what he sees to be some of the likely disruptions in […]
Read more »My(games)Space
October 22nd, 2007
From today’s WSJ, news that MySpace is seeking to create a destination for games. Now, while not pertaining strictly to a three dimensional virtual world or MMOG, we wanted to note this development as it is yet another example of a dynamic social network actively introducing & promoting gameplay – and the social features thereof […]
Read more »The Economist’s Social Graph’iti… Impact upon Advertisers
October 20th, 2007
The Economist recently offered a measured look at social networking, social graphs, and Facebook that we found interesting. While noting Facebook’s two genuine breakthroughs (namely, letting outsiders write programs and keep all the advertising revenues these might earn, and its “mini-feedâ€, an event stream on user pages that keeps users abreast of what their friends […]
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