Your avatar and your identity?

A lot of thoughts lately from various sites about the role of your avatar and your identity.
From Pixels and Policy, a great article about the attractiveness of avatars, and how it influences your popularity in virtual worlds.
From a site focusing on gender, gender equality, and other issues, a great article entitled “Real World Beauty Pressures [...]

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Updates, important Updates

Here are some important legal updates on stories I’ve talked about the last 90 days.
World of Warcraft is shut down in China once again by government authority. Here’s the full story at gamasutra. The most telling information is that even in a government as centralized as China there is sometimes a lack of [...]

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WOW provider sued over stock plunge

According to multiple sources, this article by Pr-inside reports that a US shareholder sues China’s the9 and executives. Here is the full original story on Reuters that they refer to. The main focus is that “A U.S. shareholder sued Chinese online role-playing game developer The9 (NCTY.O) [...]

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World Of Warcraft China Server Now Reinstated

The World of Warcraft MMO, an Activision/Blizzard product, is now back online in China with NetEase as the administrator.
Earlier this year World of Warcraft was suspended in China. The Chinese government administration did not license the continuation of a server for WOW.
This online game has about five million active users in China, accounting for [...]

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