Blogs about: Online Worlds

Featured Blog

Hidden in Azeroth

Jookal wrote 5 days ago: With all the tedious, juvenile rows going on in guild chat, I sometimes wish I knew the command to t … more →

Tags: World of Warcraft, Wow, MMO, Guild Chat

4 Takeaways From the Social Gaming Summit -- So Far3 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 1 week ago: The Social Gaming Summit kicked off in San Francisco today, bringing together developers, investors … more →

Tags: Casual games, CNN Big Tech, NYT Enterprise, Online Games, SYN Feature Enterprise

Online Gamers Playing More, But Paying Less: Report6 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 weeks ago: We’re playing more online games than ever before, but we’re paying less for them, intera … more →

Tags: NYT, CNN Big Tech, Online Games, SYN Straight News, Casual games, Electronic Arts, freemium, Sony

Will O3D Get Google Back Into Virtual Worlds?8 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 1 month ago: When Google (s GOOG) launched its O3D browser plug-in for displaying rich 3D graphics last month, I … more →

Tags: CNN Big Tech, NYT Company News, Online Games, SYN Feature Enterprise, chrome, Flash, Google, Metaverse, MMO

Second Life Takes Aim at Skype14 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 1 month ago: Second Life creator Linden Lab will announce on Wednesday that SL users have generated 15 billion vo … more →

Tags: CNN Mobile, Mobile, NYT Company News, SYN Straight News, Voice, Second-Life, Skype, SMS, VoIP

Zeevex Launches Cross-Game Virtual Currency 4 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 1 month ago: There’s a new entrant in the rapidly growing market for retail cards and virtual goods for onl … more →

Tags: CNN Startups, NYT Company News, NYT Internet, NYT Startups, Online Games, SYN Straight News, virtual currency, zeevex

Can Sony's Free Realms Compete With Club Penguin?9 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 months ago: When it comes to MMOs, freemium worlds for kids are enormously popular and lucrative; for the most p … more →

Tags: Casual games, CNN Big Tech, NYT Company News, Online Games, PC Games, SYN Analysis, Free Realms, MMO, MMORPG

Exclusive: Second Life Starts To Grow Again30 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 2 months ago: They say numbers don’t lie, and in recent months the number of people populating virtual world … more →

Tags: CNN, Online Games, SYN Straight News, linden lab, mark kingdon, MMO, Second-Life, Virtual World

How Virtual World YoVille Got 5M Facebook Users21 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 3 months ago: While everyone in the game industry was following the latest news from GDC last week, I happened to … more →

Tags: Casual games, CNN, NYT Internet, Online Games, SYN Feature Enterprise, MMO, Virtual World, YoVille, zynga

Open-source Flash Game Engine Now In Open Beta19 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 3 months ago: When it comes to gaming, the most popular platform isn’t the Nintendo Wii, but Flash, the inte … more →

Tags: CNN, NYT Enterprise, Online Games, PC Games, SYN Feature Enterprise, Flash, pushbutton engine

Can OnLive Really Overturn the Gaming Industry?21 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 3 months ago: Today everyone who follows the gaming industry is talking about OnLive, an upcoming service incubat … more →

Tags: CNN, NYT Enterprise, Online Games, SYN Analysis, GDC, Mike McGarvey, onlive, PlayStation, PS3

MMORPG Network Aeria Partners With Offerpal 1 comment

Wagner James Au wrote 3 months ago: Offerpal Media, a startup that links virtual currency to real-world marketing deals, scored $15 mil … more →

Tags: CNN Startups, NYT Internet, NYT Startups, Online Games, SYN Straight News, Aeria, offerpal, virtual currency

Twofish Elements Helps Developers Price Virtual Goods for Fun and Profit2 comments

Mary Jane Irwin wrote 3 months ago: Happening upon virtual items for sale in the games you play is now as common as a dentist handing yo … more →

Tags: Business, Casual games, CNN Startups, NYT Internet, NYT Startups, SYN Analysis, SYN Straight News, technology, Web

InstantAction Puts 3D Gaming Into Web Browsers14 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 4 months ago: InstantAction today officially unveiled its technology platform, which purportedly makes it possible … more →

Tags: CNN Big Tech, NYT Company News, Online Games, SYN Straight News, IAC InterActive, instant action

Offerpal's Virtual Money Service Gets $15M In Funding15 comments

Wagner James Au wrote 4 months ago: Here’s some good news in a particularly troubled time for Internet startups, and it’s es … more →

Tags: CNN Startups, NYT Internet, NYT Startups, Online Games, SYN Straight News, Anu Shukla, D.E. Shaw Ventures, interWest Partners, iPhone

The New Killer Platform for MMOGs is... FaceBook?2 comments

Mike Sellers wrote 7 months ago: Since my last post was pretty theoretical, I thought I’d bring this back to earth a bit. The M … more →

Tags: Games, Practice, technology, facebook, MMOG, Tools, Virtual World

VWs and MMOGs: The Great Divide?4 comments

Mike Sellers wrote 7 months ago: What’s the difference between a virtal world (VW) and a massively multiplayer online game (MMO … more →

Tags: MMOG, Vw

Rubric 5 embassies

mszhoracesophia wrote 10 months ago: Ashley despairs that we’in point of manufacture the vale of tears’s largest agency mutua … more →

Tags: Gabor Sari, online counseling, washingtonpost.com, gaming in libraries

Rubric 5 embassies

mszhoracesophia wrote 10 months ago: Ashley despairs that we’in point of manufacture the vale of tears’s largest agency mutua … more →

Tags: Gabor Sari, online counseling, washingtonpost.com, gaming in libraries


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS

Find other items tagged with “online-worlds”:
Technorati Del.icio.us IceRocket