<![CDATA[Kotaku: Virtual World]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Virtual World]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/virtual world http://kotaku.com/tag/virtual world <![CDATA[The Redesigned PlayStation Home Will Jam Fun in Your Face Tomorrow]]> The PlayStation 3's virtual world transforms from tired curiosity to gamer theme park tomorrow, when Sony rolls out its massive fall facelift for PlayStation Home. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5855593&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[APB Developer Rebuilds The World In Our Image]]> "What would it look like if Nintendo built Google Earth?" That's the question used to describe Crackdown and APB developer Realtime World's new project, a mix of social gaming, social networking, and traditional gaming known as MyWorld. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5598974&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Welcome To The City Of Sinners And Saints]]> Take a look at the first trailer for the City of Sinners & Saints, where social networking and cel-shaded cartoon avatars collide. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5175036&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Whirled All Its Own]]> My impressions of Puzzle Pirates developer Three Rings’ new project were colored by the minor car accident I got into on my way to check it out. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5133525&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Muxlim Launches Beta Of Muxlim Pal Islamic Virtual World]]> Islamic lifestyle and social networking site Muxlim has launched a beta of the virtual world/MMO we told you about back in October. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5105891&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Square-Enix Creates Giant Headed Virtual World To Shill Stuff]]> The company responsible for billions of tons of Chocobo tchochkes is giving Square-Enix Members another opportunity to be inundated with more Final Fantasy stuff. Squeenix's Virtual World launches in Japan next week, with the publisher revealing details on the members only service today. Replete with avatar creation, customization, mini-games and Chocobos, Virtual World behaves kind of like a low-rent Second Life or Home. Instead of creepy furry sexual fantasies played out with terrible graphics, Virtual World inhabitants will have tea with giant yellow birds. Instead of looking at billboards for Sony games, Virtual World users will look at billboards for Square-Enix games. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=329868&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Microsoft Considering A Virtual World, Too]]> At the recent virtual worlds conference, Microsoft general manager of entertainment devices Daniel Schiappa was on hand, and not all the quiet about why he was there.
By next year, you'll probably know more about why I'm up here.
OK, so he wasn't completely forthright about why he was there, but we get the point (mainly because he explained later). Microsoft is looking into deploying a virtual world like Second Life or PSHome to span the PC, Xbox 360 and possibly other entertainment devices (like the Zune?). And if such a world could seamlessly piggyback on Xbox Live...things could get interesting. But is it too little too late from Microsoft? Schiappa tells us more: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=309709&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[AWOMO Beta Launches]]> A World Of My Own is a game download service embedded in a virtual world that will allow users to meet other players in the guise of customizable avatars and quickly download gaming titles to play alone or with your newfound friends. The concept is intriguing the hell out of me as well as several big name game companies already signed on for the service. Companies like Atari, Eidos, Vivendi, 2K Sports, Sega and NCsoft are just a few of the publishers listed on AWOMO.com, which has been newly revamped to coincide with the launch of the beta program. Of the 30,000 slots opened, 20,000 have been filled, and with the beta only in an early download testing phase there is still plenty of time to sign up. I've got a feeling that AWOMO is going to be a pretty big deal one day, so be sure to bookmark this post to laugh at me should I wind up horribly wrong. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=290106&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=288589&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Playing with Augmented Reality]]> Sure, you're thinking, "I already play Augmented Reality. It's called relating to the people I work with on a daily basis". Well, supposedly this is way more fun than that. Augmented Reality, or AR, is what some people are calling the games that mix in the virtual world with physical reality. One of examples that MSNBC give is the real-world version of Quake that researchers at the University of South Australia created where users wore a visor and backpack while walking around in public, fighting super-imposed computer objects only they could see. It's like a mix of theatre and gaming. According to games analyst, Bll Pidgeon: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268144&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ed Wood Second Life Festival]]>
Ed Wood and Second Life go together like chocolate and peanut butter. After all, Ed was a director of inspired incompetence; Second Life is an entire virtual world filled with that incompetence. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=210540&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Feature: The Gamers Rough Guide to Pwning Second Life]]> by Wagner James Au More »
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