Bobba, Pocketsize Virtual World

Sulake, previously known as the editor of the "hangout" virtual world Habbo, launched today a mobile version of the product conceived exclusively for mobile devices.
Bobba, or the Pocketsize Virtual World, is currently in Beta, and is available for Nokia S60 users only. Announced ("soon") for iPhone and iPod, it obviously aims to generalize the presence [...]

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Conference on education practices held in Second Life

How could Second Life be a life if there were no conferences organized in it?
Virtual Worlds-Best Practices in Education, a conference about benefits education could have from virtual worlds, is being held in Second Life these days (March 27-29). Ranging from rather philosophical and society-changing to more practical, some of the questions that participants of [...]

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Real bank in a virtual Entropia Universe

Is this a joke? Doesn't look like!
Entropia Universe is a virtual world, a Second-Life-like creation by the Swedish MindArk, with 800,000 registered users and 80-100,000 regular players. Just for a notice, let's say it's a little… weirder than SL, but nothing too unusual up to now.
The thing is that they really got a (real) financial [...]

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