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7-Eleven Will Sell Games Year Round, and Charge You to Play Guild Wars

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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7-Eleven Will Sell Games Year Round, and Charge You to Play Guild Wars

Remember how weird it was when 7-Eleven started selling select promo-partner games at their stores? Remember how awesome it was when they completely ignored street dates of aforementioned games and sold them regardless of labels warning them against doing so? Well, now you can buy AAA games at 7-Eleven year round, starting with seven this [...]

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Solution to Gold Farmers? Design with Gold Farmers in Mind

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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Solution to Gold Farmers? Design with Gold Farmers in Mind

At the 2008 ION Game Conference, there was a panel called "Real Money, Fake Money and Loot: Designing Economies for MMO Games" in which participants spoke about the economic game design issues that surround MMOs. The consensus opinion from the panelists was that the best way to combat gold farmers was to design an MMO [...]

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Rights in a Virtual World

Thursday, March 13, 2008

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Rights in a Virtual World

An article over at Gamasutra discusses a panel at the SXSW conference about human and property rights in a virtual world. The panelists included Erik Bethke, the CEO of GoPets; Greg Boyd, an attorney; and Andrew Schneider, co-founder of Live Gamer. Susan Wu of Charles River Ventures moderated the panel. Though human rights were touched [...]

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