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Archive for May, 2010

Multi-Level Social Gaming?
May 14th, 2010

Via PlayNoEvil, a report examining the possibility that some social games may move from their existing “social engagement” model to a more virulent strategy using multi-level marketing. As the article note: “…Facebook has turned down the knob on the data feed from games… and social games are suffering. Virtually every game and game publisher has […]

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A Real-World Battle Over Virtual-Property Rights
May 5th, 2010

Via the Los Angeles Times, an interesting report on ownership rights to virtual assets in online worlds. As the article notes, some Second Life ‘residents’ are suing its creator, saying it has quietly removed the idea of ownership and confiscated some property without compensation: “Architect David Denton spends much of his time on a lush […]

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