As is all over the gaming news, you can now acquire armor for your horse in Oblivion for Xbox 360.
It’ll just cost you real money.
Company-sanctioned RMT hits single-player games
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Harbingers
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Apr 032006
Games are about to become a lot less relevant to the future of virtual worlds.
That’s where Electric Sheep comes in. The company, technically based in Washington D.C. but operating more often than not in the virtual world, has been booking six-figure deals from members of the Fortune 500 who want to engage their customers/communities… employees can find themselves hired by a client to customize an island, or what in “Second Life” is called a “sim”–a 16-acre piece of land that users can buy and do with what they like.
Monthly Report, March 2006
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Apr 022006
Alas, my sense of humor is much diminished by the cold I’ve been suffering for the last few days (which is also why posts have slowed somewhat recently). So don’t expect this month’s report to be full of the usual self-deceptive impression of wit.
The basic news: ack, the site got bigger and more popular. Again.
The Sunday Poem: Last Visit to the Poconos
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Poems often change a lot over their lives. Sometimes, they get better, and sometimes they get worse. Sometimes you revise sense into them, and sometimes you revise sounds, or beauty, or imagery. Sometimes, the sense of them inverts, changes, or just grows more mysterious over time.
This particular poem, I have two radically different drafts of. One of them made it into the (unpublished) book that was my thesis to get my MFA. The other was written during my undergrad years. They are both about the same place and the same theme, and even use some of the same language, but they don’t say the same things.
