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Q&A with Wagner James Au on his book “The Making of Second Life”

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 3, 2008
7 min

Wagner James Au began writing his New World Notes blog on the virtual world Second Life in 2003. For two years, under contract with...

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This pirate just scored $3.5 million in VC funds

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 3, 2008
2 min

Daniel James loves to show up at video game events dressed as a pirate. The CEO of Three Rings has announced he has scored...

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The Scrabulous Facebook game in the NYT spotlight

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2008
1 min

Ever since Scrabulous was created by a couple of brothers in India, it has been a hot property on Facebook with more than 700,000...

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Trion chief thinks Activision Blizzard is trying to scare off WoW rivals

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 1, 2008
1 min

Lars Buttler isn’t shy in this story in GameDaily. The CEO of Redwood City, Calif.-based Trion World Network says that Bobby Kotick, the CEO...

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GDC roundup part 3: from Ray Kurzweil to Will Wright to the long lines for Portal post-mortem

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 29, 2008
8 min

Futurist Ray Kurzweil dazzled the crowd last Thursday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with his prediction that technological progress is accelerating...

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GDC roundup part 2: journalists squaring off and user-generated games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 28, 2008
3 min

I saw plenty of clashing and gnashing at the Game Developers Conference. User-generated games created plenty of it, but so did journalists themselves. On...

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Peter Leahy starts venture capital firm for videos games/entertainment

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 28, 2008
1 min

Video game industry veteran Peter Leahy has started a venture capital firm and is raising $20 million to invest in creative properties including video...