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dreamcast

Buy Every Single Japanese Dreamcast Game At Once

I don't normally like posting eBay auctions. I find something about them inherently tragic. But this one, oh boy, this one is just nice to look at. Some bloke in France is selling every Japanese Dreamcast game ever made. Every single one. 606 of them. Even awesome rare stuff like De La Jet Set Radio. Oh, and did I mention they're all sealed? They're all sealed. All 606 of them. Sure, bidding starts at $20,000, but for the entire Japanese Dreamcast collection, sealed, that may well constitute a bargain.
Dreamcast Collection [GameSniped]

3:30 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Luke Plunkett
11,741 views, 69 comments

Latest by N/A: This is absolutely a bargain, to hire a professional company to find all the games sealed+ the games price would more »

stuck in the ivory tower

Call For Papers: Economies and Virtual Worlds

In case any Kotakuites out there have a great paper floating around on virtual worlds, the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR) has put out a call for papers. Scheduled for publication in August 2008, the special issue will focus on (as the journal title would imply) commerce, but the catch is that the issue will be focused on virtual worlds. While this journal is centered on e-commerce anyways, I'm still curious to see what sort of academic papers crawl out of the woodwork. The divide between mainstream 'we play games' ideas on games and academic 'we study games' ideas on games is occasionally astonishing for both how far apart those two worlds can be and how close together they sometimes are. I'm not in a field that deals with this sort of stuff, but I'll be keeping an eye out for the issue next August. Full details after the jump. More »

12:30 PM on Sun Aug 12 2007
By Maggie Greene
716 views, 8 comments

Latest by xfire-toscana: Hello guys, I'm Dan Anthony; I work at Xfire, your handy neighborhood gaming community. I wanted to talk to this more »

mmorpg

The IRS May Be Coming for Your Virtual Wares

Over at Terra Nova they link to a piece in Legal Affairs that says the IRS is considering trying to find a way to charge people for virtual commerce. No, I don't mean using IGE, I mean taxing you on that gold you made for selling an Arcanite Reaper. Because the real world value of gold can be quantified, selling an item for 1000 gold, which has a value of (for the sake of argument only) $60. The IRS' thinking is this: "Goods taken in trade or won at play are taxable the moment they fall into somebody's hands, even if they are not sold for money." More »

9:39 AM on Fri Jan 6 2006
By lsmith
223 views, 11 comments

Latest by ecmuller: Errr...how are they going to charge taxes to only a small percent of an international community with no national boundaries? more »