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EVE Online Virtual Goods Dispute Ends Peacefully

Last week the universal community of EVE Online exploded into rage over the release of high-priced virtual goods and a leaked internal memo that suggested developer CCP planned to monetise the hell out of everything they could put a price tag on in the popular space MMO. Thanks to a brilliant plan that involved flying key community members to Iceland, everything is all better now.


April 23, 2010
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Final Fantasy XIII PlayStation Home Items Come To North America

Let your Final Fantasy fanhood ring across the hallowed halls and cubbyholes of PlayStation Home today, as Final Fantasy XIII avatar items, costumes and spaces make their way to North America.


April 20, 2010
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Renault Delivers Interactive In-Game Advertising To The Sims 3

The inclusion of a free virtual version of Renault’s electric Twizy Z.E Concept car in The Sims 3 should go great lengths towards helping increase player awareness of the Renault brand.


April 17, 2010
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Blizzard Is Selling World Of Warcraft Mounts Because Players Demanded Them

While naysayers may think corporate greed is the answer, Blizzard tells Kotaku the real reason World of Warcraft mounts have shown up for sale in the company’s online store is because that’s exactly what the players wanted.


April 16, 2010
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Avast! A Monkey Island Pirate Paradise For PlayStation Home

LucasArts celebrates the winter release of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on the PlayStation 3 with enough virtual goods to recreate the game yourself in PlayStation Home.


March 24, 2010
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Why Economists Love Video Games

The billion-dollar business of selling virtual goods in free-to-play games is more than just a financial windfall for companies like Playfish. A controlled economy with millions of active participants gives economists an entirely new way to model consumer behaviour.


November 5, 2009
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Blizzard Starts Selling In-Game World Of Warcraft Pets

It was only a matter of time. Blizzard has just put up a pair of in-game pets for World of Warcraft for sale on the Blizzard Store. Would you pay $US10 for a Pandaren Monk or a baby Kel’Thuzad?


August 27, 2009
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Decorate Your PlayStation Home In Early Hellghast

The Visari Throne Room personal space is just one of more than a hundred new pieces of PlayStation Home content flooding Sony’s virtual world with tomorrow’s update.


January 22, 2009
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Linden Lab Buys Second Life Virtual Marketplaces OnRez And Xstreet SL

Second Life creators Linden Lab have been shopping for shopping, acquiring virtual goods marketplaces OnRez and Xstreet SL in order to integrate them into their popular virtual world.