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‘Last Lecture’ professor dies at 47 - CNN.com Most of the world thinks of him as the guy in the video giving the last lecture, the guy with the bestselling book. To me, he’s the guy who co-founded CMU’s Entertainmnt Technology Center and graduated tons of kids into the game industry, organized academic summits at GDC, [...] Read More...

Edward CastronovaThe results of the Arden project are available in a working paper here. The working paper has also been submitted to a journal for peer review. Summary: In a fantasy game setting, we made two equivalent worlds and set the... Read More...

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COPA, the Child Online Protection Act, has been overturned by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This is actually upholding a lower court ruling from a while ago. It will be interesting to see what effect this might have on virtual worlds, given the parental pressure for safe worlds and the ongoing political crusades, and [...] Read More...

Greg LAdmin note: As an anti-spam measure, we've flipped the switch to implement TypeKey in the comments on TN. Hopefully, this will not be too much of a hassle for the commenting community -- if it is, we may go back... Read More...

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