Wide World of Video Games

September 13, 2005 – 7:23 am

Matt started talking up the weird issues developing around multiplayer online games a few weeks ago. Then soon after he blogged it, a story appeared in On the Media (listen, transcript)
Short story: online gaming is huge — one developer claims four million paying customers. More significantly, the interplay between real and virtual worlds might create [...]

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Culture of Entertainment

June 23, 2005 – 1:02 am

I don’t remember how I found this tip to BaitCar.com’s collection of police videos of car thefts. They’re good for a few laughs, but things like this — and about half of the programming on Spike — make me wonder how far we are from from the worlds depicted in Running Man and so many [...]

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