Interesting months ahead for the gaming industry. The big gaming news of Q1 2008 was EA announcing its plans to release its FPS game Battlefield Heroes for free. It offers the game as a free download, and supports it trough micro-payments (you can buy in-game bonuses for real money or pay monthly fees for premium [...]

Posted on: February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Believe it or not, this is the official website of the largest metaverse project currently being developed. China’s Virtual Economy District which will be an ‘aggressive’ attack on retail everywhere. Ever since October 2007 rumours and facts about the ‘CVD’ have been surfacing in the media. The virtual district is said to be an 80-square-kilometre [...]

Posted on: February 5, 2008 | 9 Comments »

This weekend Orange Island organized a meeting in Second Live of a range of topics, and called it the ‘Orange Geekend’. I was present at an interesting (technical) update by PhD John Plevyak on scalability of Virtual Worlds in the future. Thanks to Simbian Chronos for re-reading my report of this because some of the [...]

Posted on: January 26, 2008 | No Comments »

Here is why I love to read the blogs of ‘Virtual World naysayers’ more so then I like to read the blogs of those that agree with the potential of Virtual Worlds.
After they hit you with 5,000 words of steaming horse pockey about socio-virtual-graph-branding consumer empowerment (or whatever the hell it is they prattle on [...]

Posted on: January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This year we’ve seen many brands come and go in Virtual Worlds. Some have invested in their own worlds, other have invested in a presence within social virtual worlds. Today I want to list some of the ways users and corporations have been playing with the Metaverse, creating the following overview of Business models they [...]

Posted on: December 30, 2007 | 9 Comments »

The biggest problem in technological advancement today is not the technology itself. Its translating its features to understandable changes for the masses. How do you communicate ‘3d web’ when the majority has never heard of web 2.0 and what it has to offer? Do companies understand the technology and will they take the time [...]

Posted on: December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »