Looking for answers? Dianetics, The Secret, The Seven Deadly Foibles of Unrepentant Sociopaths? The revelations that you seek are in Ecco the Dolphin.

Produced by Ed Annunziata and developed by the international Novotrade International team (later Appaloosa Interactive), the first Ecco the Dolphin came out early in the age of Sega Genesis. ( Read more... )

Japan steps up and takes real life judicial action for a virtual crime:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/23/international/i063235D45.DTL&tsp=1

A 43-year-old player in a virtual game world became so ( Read more... )

I do live! According to recent reports, anyway. I've actually been trying to post this for a week, but am only just now getting to it. I have a lot of things to catch up on, and hopefully am getting to a portion of them this weekend ( Read more... )

So. Steve (the greenbottle fly, if you remember him) continues to persist. I think he's even gotten most of the coffee off of his body.

Brief update, mostly for a couple of links. WoW friends will appreciate this, courtesy wired_blogs: "From MMO to CEO", a rather belated article covering the transfer of leadership skills learned in online game ( Read more... )

It seems that the feminism issue rears its head on the speculative fiction blogosphere about once every six months, maybe more frequently if you follow specific blogs in question. I'd been meaning, with certain trepidation, to throw my hat in, and now seems an opportune time as I have found myself unwittingly participating in one editor's salvo in ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Real Post Day. But for now...

There is a comet larger than the sun passing through the solar system. Link courtesy gregvaneekhout.

And National Geographic has a sea dinosaur IMAX feature! that I really want to see, but the nearest theatre is in Rochester. Sigh.

And check out this nasty guy in particular. The ecology of that ancient sea rivals any ( Read more... )

Via anguirel. This is one of the most brilliant things I have ever seen. Ever.

Video game field show at Cal Berkeley.

The only thing that could possibly make it better is a video from the home field side... it seems like there must be one somewhere, but alas, youtube fails me.

In other video game news, play Free Rice -- test your vocabulary and donate ( Read more... )