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Salon.com
September 21, 2000
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IEEE Spectrum
December 2007
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Playing Dirty Automating computer game play takes cheating to a new and profitable level. |
Salon.com
December 3, 2001
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The return of Lord British Banished from his own Ultima domains, game designer Richard Garriott is making a comeback, via Korea... |
Wired
November 24, 2008
Julian Dibbell |
The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire By age 18, Brock Pierce was a dazzlingly successful dotcom entrepreneur, living large on a $250,000 executive salary and the promise of millions more in post-IPO equity. By his 19th birthday he had lost it all. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies An economist talks about how online games can blur the line between fantasy and reality. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2007
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On a Quest for English Online role-playing games, which take players on explorations of medieval fantasy worlds, are showing the potential to be a powerful tool for ESL learning. |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2005
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Playing in Parallel Worlds Not all that long ago, you could count the number of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) on one hand. Now you'd need a lot more fingers. |
Salon.com
July 9, 2002
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Showdown in cyberspace: Star Wars vs. The Sims If online role-playing games are ever going to break out of the hardcore gamer ghetto, they'll have to do more than please the geeks. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2004
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eBay of the Elves A new computer game from Vivendi takes cues from the success of eBay. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
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Online Games Revisited Part of the appeal of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) is that they are built around persistent worlds -- which means these online universes can change and develop. |
PC Magazine
June 28, 2005
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Virtual Currency For the over 800,000 subscribers to Sony Online Entertainment's Everquest II game, life in a virtual world follows a familiar pattern. |
D-Lib
December 2005
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Parallel Worlds: Online Games and Digital Information Services Online games possess a number of characteristics that correlate to aspects of digital information service development and use. |
