I’m not much of a gamer, but Matt got me following video game law with curious interest. And now, via ArsTechnica, I’ve learned of crazy things going on in role playing game economies.
To some, the only surprise in Jon Jacobs’s US$100,000 purchase of in-game real estate is that nobody thought of it sooner.
The first thing [...]

Posted November 13, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: $100,000, game, game law, gamer, jon jacobs, mmo, mmorpg, real estate, role playing, role playing game, rpg, space station, video game, virtual economy, virtual real estate, virtual space station. One Comment.

Matt says my attempts to analogize online roleplaying games to more familiar contests like chess or automobile racing are “just silly.” But his response appears to reinforce my point rather than refute it. It is the responsibility of the gamers and gaming organizations to create and enforce rules. People violating those rules are subject to [...]

Posted September 28, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: game, game world, game worlds, gamers, games, gaming, in game, law, mmo, mmorpg, multiplayer online games, online games, online role playing, online role playing games, real world, real world violence, role playing game, role playing games, rpg, story world, video game, video games, virtual, virtual economy, virtual world, virtual worlds. 6 Comments.

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 [...]

Posted September 13, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: crime, game, game money, game world, game worlds, law, loss, mmo, mmorpg, multiplayer online games, murder, online games, real world, real world violence, role playing game, story world, theft, video game, video games, virtual, virtual economy, virtual world, virtual worlds, weird issues. 70 Comments.

The Laconia Citizen reported today that Ron Mowry’s 31 year quest for recognition as the real pinball wizard of 1974 has finally achieved some success. The Twin Galaxies Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records will credit Mowry’s 72 hour 8 minute marathon pinball session as a record.
Mowry set his 1974 record at [...]

Posted June 11, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: florida, laconia citizen, new hampshire, pinball, pinball wizard, plymouth, twin galaxies, video game, wizard, world record. 3 Comments.