Second Life bloggers published numbers regarding the volume and some statistics about the inworld economy. It is very well known that virtual economies have become rather serious subject of studies, and from this point of view the data exposed might surprise you. In any case, here they are :
User-to-user transactions within Second Life total $350 [...]

AbleGamers, a community for disabled gamers (can't help noticing the wordplay), did, and MSNBC reported about, an "one question interview" with 81 game developers at the latest GDC. The question asked was "Have you ever thought about how disabled people play video games?". 80 people and 1 douche bag, they say, because someone actually laughed [...]

ANP (the Netherlands national news agency) reported today about an interesting legal research outcome. The research concerns a project carried out by Innovation Lab and commissioned by the justice ministry.
The research concluded (link in dutch) that there is nothing in the Netherlands' legal system that opposes the possibility of psychiatric detainees passing a test in [...]

Washington State University, in its CUB Auditorium on the Pullman campus, will host today the Virtual Journalism Summit. The Summit is presented by The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, in partnership with the McCormick Foundation, and has for objective to examine the growing popularity of virtual worlds and the influence it has on [...]

Since Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' gave it the best publicity it could dream of, the annual Pamplona Bull Run grew to be probably one of the most exciting (and uselessly dangerous) events in the world. Dozens of people get hospitalized each year, and number of victims since the records exist is 14 (far too [...]