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“Oh, Take-Two Interactive, would you be mine?” breathed Joe Electronic Arts as he stared into his would-be lover’s eyes. Jane Take-Two Interactive looked away and glanced across the Game Industry Bar to the successful couple, Jack Vivendi and Jessica Activision, sitting in the private lounge nearby, cradled in each other’s arms and seemingly lost in each other’s company. … Continue

Activision's CEO, Bobby Kotick, as portrayed in this GameSpot article is boldly going where most have not dared to go before: challenging Electronic Arts' acquisition choices AND laying down the gauntlet for anyone to challenge World of Warcraft.

I recently had an interesting conversation with a developer of a virtual world. When I — perhaps glibly — described what he and his colleagues were developing as an “online game”, he quickly corrected me to tell me it was absolutely and only a virtual world. The question set me to thinking, finger tapping on my chin, about the basic understanding of what an online world is and how important those distinctions are. To sort through these online neighborhoods, let’s first define them and see what… Continue