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Massively multiplayer online games
evolve with dragon-loving masses

Massively multiplayer online games
evolve with dragon-loving masses 05/31/2004 08:13 PM
Nwanews.com - Mon May 31, 05:46 am GMT

"I weigh approximately 175 pounds
(subject to g = 9.8 m/ss), and am
neither a dragon nor a pinata. […] You
should like words, science, and video
games. But you shouldn’t be ugly either.
Or male. Or a zombie dragon, powerful in
life, unstoppable in death. "

"I weigh approximately 175 pounds
(subject to g = 9.8 m/ss), and am
neither a dragon nor a pinata. […] You
should like words, science, and video
games. But you shouldn’t be ugly either.
Or male. Or a zombie dragon, powerful in
life, unstoppable in death. " 07/14/2004 10:19 PM

Games, Inc. Expands Its Multi-Player
Game Collection With the Addition of
Online Poker

Games, Inc. Expands Its Multi-Player
Game Collection With the Addition of
Online Poker 09/09/2004 11:49 PM
Biz.yahoo.com - Thu Sep 9, 02:56 pm GMT

Scholastic offers new Dragon Tales, I
Spy games

Scholastic offers new Dragon Tales, I
Spy games 05/28/2004 12:43 PM
Scholastic Inc. is offering a new game aimed at preschoolers based on PBS's Dragon Tales television show, as well as a new game for grade school-aged kids based on the popular I Spy book series. Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly With Dragons and I Spy: Spooky Mansion Deluxe are both planned for a June release, shipping on hybrid CD-ROM for Mac and Windows operating systems. They'll each cost US$19.95.

Planetwide Games Brings the 1st Fantasy
Player vs. Player MMORPG "Risk Your
Life" to North American Video Game
Players

Planetwide Games Brings the 1st Fantasy
Player vs. Player MMORPG "Risk Your
Life" to North American Video Game
Players 12/22/2004 01:05 AM
Open Beta for “Risk Your Life” Passes 100,000 North American Registered Player Milestone in 8 Weeks, Joining 1.2 Million Players Worldwide [PRWEB Dec 21, 2004]

Tamale Chef Kills Friend, Cooks Him
(Reuters)

Tamale Chef Kills Friend, Cooks Him
(Reuters) 04/22/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - A Mexican cook killed his drinking buddy, cut up his body and boiled him in herbs, according to police who fear he may have been turning him into tamales.

a Chinese video game player who murdered
a friend

a Chinese video game player who murdered
a friend 03/30/2005 05:27 PM
National Post Mar 30 2005 9:45PM GMT

Online Games Of Skill vs. Online Games
Of Chance

Online Games Of Skill vs. Online Games
Of Chance 05/24/2004 04:40 AM
While the US has been notoriously tough on the idea of any online gambling in the US, there are a number of companies doing quite well in the somewhat "gray" area of online games of skill for money. These aren't games of chance, but still require players to put up money, and the winners go home with more than they put in. The difference, of course, is that the win is based (at least somewhat) on the skills of the players. However, this can be a very fine line. Most games involve a mix of skill and luck, and you can make the claim that classic gambling games like poker and blackjack require some amount of skill as well. Still, the online "games of skill" providers claim they're just like a typical sports association, like the US Tennis Association, that sets up tournaments and awards prizes to the winners - minus their own cut. Of course, they conveniently skip over the part about where the money comes from. With these online games, it is still a "pay to enter" sort of contest. Either way, it's not entirely clear how the legal issues will play out. Some states already bar such online games of skill, but many don't. Federal laws are still unclear, and the companies involved in this space are lobbying heavily to try to make the point that they should be allowed to continue where online gambling sites are forbidden.

New NCsoft games show the best, worst in
online games

New NCsoft games show the best, worst in
online games 06/01/2004 08:24 PM
Augustachronicle.com - Mon May 31, 07:30 am GMT

Who's Your Online Music Friend? Not
Microsoft

Who's Your Online Music Friend? Not
Microsoft 01/28/2004 12:27 PM
Cory sez: Copyright law has never said that the guy who makes the records gets to tell you what kind of record player you can use. If Scoble and his employer want to offer a product with "features" that their customers want, those features should reflect what their customers want: No Windows user rolled out of bed this morning and said, "I wish there was a way that I could get Microsoft to deliver me tools that allow me to do less with the music I buy."

Online social networking: Friend or foe?

Online social networking: Friend or foe? 01/26/2004 07:41 PM
Google recently unveiled an online social networking service, dubbed Orkut www.orkut.com, that it hopes can successfully compete with the likes of Friendster. ...

Videogamer murders friend over online
dispute

Videogamer murders friend over online
dispute 03/30/2005 11:39 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Mar 30 2005 2:46PM GMT

Playing Games With Sony's Player

Playing Games With Sony's Player 04/07/2005 05:02 AM
The PlayStation Portable is being adapted to myriad uses, many of which its manufacturer probably never intended. But you can't keep a good hacker down.

FBI Arrests Actor's Friend For Putting
Screener Online

FBI Arrests Actor's Friend For Putting
Screener Online 01/23/2004 03:57 AM
Just a week and a half after the MPAA flipped out when they discovered a screener movie they had sent to an actor for the Academy Awards had made its way online, the FBI has arrested a friend of the actor. The actor, Carmine Caridi, known for playing mafia-type roles, apparently ratted out his friend pretty quickly when the FBI came knocking. Caridi admits to sending every single screener he's received in the past three years to Russell Sprague, who he believed was a movie fan who wanted to see the movies. Sprague is now under arrest and accused of taking those films and putting them online. Of course, part of me wonders if the FBI didn't have anything better to do with their time.

Viacom May Become a Games Player (Los
Angeles Times)

Viacom May Become a Games Player (Los
Angeles Times) 08/21/2004 05:33 AM
Los Angeles Times - Viacom Inc. may consider purchasing Midway Games Inc., a money-losing video game company controlled by the media giant's chief executive, Sumner Redstone.

Web to Be Major Player at Olympic Games
and Euro 2004 (Reuters)

Web to Be Major Player at Olympic Games
and Euro 2004 (Reuters) 05/25/2004 08:52 PM
Reuters - Internet and mobile phones will debut as a major part of this year's two big sporting events: the Olympic Games in Athens and the European soccer championship in Portugal.

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

Topics

The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

[it's the danbri and Libby show!]

Planetwide Games Launches "RYL: Path of
the Emperor" Worldwide Player vs. Demon
Battle at RYL.net

Planetwide Games Launches "RYL: Path of
the Emperor" Worldwide Player vs. Demon
Battle at RYL.net 03/14/2005 05:55 PM
Open Beta Ends and Pay to Play Begins March 17, 2005 [PRWEB Feb 25, 2005]

A Thinker's Best Friend: IdeaFisher
Software Bores Deep into Problems,
Provides Over 1,000,000 Solutions - New
Online Training Program Released to
Speed New Idea Success

A Thinker's Best Friend: IdeaFisher
Software Bores Deep into Problems,
Provides Over 1,000,000 Solutions - New
Online Training Program Released to
Speed New Idea Success 02/01/2005 09:16 PM
"Creativity on demand" is how IdeaFisher Software is defined by over 362,000 users worldwide. But what does this mean in application, and how can a software program make you more creative? IdeaFisher+ExitPath, developers of these next-generation creativity applications clarifies with a new training program and a 3rd-party book on creativity-by-association, the basis for IdeaFisher's software... [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

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EUR 1,453,610.18 Online Jackpot Won by
European Player

EUR 1,453,610.18 Online Jackpot Won by
European Player 06/09/2004 04:30 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Wed Jun 9, 08:33 am GMT

"Online Games"

"Online Games" 06/03/2004 05:04 AM

What have online games done to us?

What have online games done to us? 06/07/2004 04:23 AM
Content.sina.com - Mon Jun 7, 08:50 am GMT

Online bridge player solution now Mac
compatible

Online bridge player solution now Mac
compatible 06/28/2004 09:48 AM
OKbridge, a member-supported online bridge club, has released OKplus, its next-generation software with "anywhere access" to the Internet...

Gamers Don`t Want Online Games?

Gamers Don`t Want Online Games? 07/10/2004 09:35 PM
Cinescape.com - Fri Jul 9, 09:57 am GMT

Western games go online

Western games go online 08/17/2004 10:55 PM
Stjoenews-press.com - Tue Aug 17, 08:53 am GMT

Trouble with Online Games

Trouble with Online Games 07/16/2004 08:41 PM

Wired reports on Electonic Arts' decision to shut down UXO (Ultima X: Odyssey) and goes on to elaborate on the pain and cost of running a massive online games.  While developing the game client and server itself is within the realm of developers' abilities, creating the content of a virtual world and keeping it an interesting place to live in is a difficult and neverending task that most developers will find difficult to manage, even if they have a deep pocket like EA.

The missing ingredient in today's online games that full 3D online world developers forgot to translate from MUD (Multiple User Dungeon, a text-only online world) is community participation in building and maintaining the online world.  Instead of hiring legions of artists and area designers, they should have leveraged the creative power of the players themselves by creating tools and offering incentives.  With such legions of superusers, all they needed was a much smaller staff to control the legion.

Player participation in running online worlds should not stop with content but also operation.  Let the superusers handle most of the in-game headaches such as user complaints and conflict moderation.  Going beyond that, superusers should also be used to play NPC roles such as monsters, shop owners, etc.

Unfortunately, EA looked only at the numbers and chose the easy way out instead of using UXO as an opportunity to explore more creative options.

A few online games can be priceless

A few online games can be priceless 01/01/2004 11:14 AM
CNN Jan 1 2004 10:01AM ET

India can be hub for online games

India can be hub for online games 06/24/2005 03:08 PM
Us.rediff.com - Thu Jun 23, 06:06 pm GMT

Online games: The next big thing

Online games: The next big thing 08/22/2004 12:34 AM
Agencyfaqs.com - Sat Aug 21, 11:00 am GMT

Online games could be next big thing,
but not yet

Online games could be next big thing,
but not yet 08/22/2004 11:23 PM
News.nzcity.co.nz - Mon Aug 23, 03:03 am GMT

Online games could be next big thing

Online games could be next big thing 08/22/2004 11:23 PM
Chron.com - Sat Aug 21, 01:05 pm GMT

Online games Web sites

Online games Web sites 12/24/2004 01:04 PM
Chicagotribune.com - Thu Dec 23, 12:08 pm GMT

Online Games Could Be Next Big Thing,
But Not Yet (Reuters)

Online Games Could Be Next Big Thing,
But Not Yet (Reuters) 08/19/2004 03:01 PM
Reuters - Video games makers searching for the next big thing to pull in players at Europe's biggest computer games fair hope to tempt more gamers to pit their wits against one other online as Web technology improves.

Asia and the online games it plays

Asia and the online games it plays 06/02/2004 08:17 PM
Atimes.com - Tue Jun 1, 08:03 pm GMT

Online Games will be Boosted by 3G
Networks

Online Games will be Boosted by 3G
Networks 11/17/2003 05:47 AM
3G Nov 17 2003 4:50AM ET

Crackdown on online computer games

Crackdown on online computer games 08/06/2004 11:38 PM
Theage.com.au - Thu Aug 5, 04:02 pm GMT

Tencent To Develop Online Games

Tencent To Develop Online Games 09/02/2004 11:14 PM
Einnews.com - Thu Sep 2, 01:48 pm GMT

Online games play with politics

Online games play with politics 12/26/2004 01:03 AM
Games with a political and social agenda have provided a novel take on world events.
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