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Target’s Video Game Department Gets All Fancy

2:20AM May 20, 2010 | Mike Fahey

If you’re the kind of shopper who makes a beeline for the game section of any store you enter, the reinvention of Target gaming department should be a welcome change, making games more accessible and organising by platfom and genre. More »


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From the Margins to the Mainland: the Future of Virtual Worlds?

2:00AM July 6, 2008 | Maggie Greene

Those concerned with ‘virtual worlds’ — as opposed to ‘games’ — spend a lot of time contemplating the role of virtual worlds in a wider market; over at Terra Nova, Bruce Damer looks at the potential future of virtual worlds, which could be a lot bigger than most people imagine. Some potential answers to keep the industry growing? Piggybacking off platforms that are currently growing at a rapid clip, making sure virtual worlds are ‘worth’ something — perhaps some as of yet undiscovered little platform will be the key:

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