Q&A: Banned Sims blogger bites back - News at GameSpot: "Q&A: Banned Sims blogger bites back
Tossed onto his virtual bum by EA for exposing The Sims Online's seamier side, Peter Ludlow talks about real censorship and virtual vice. Interview inside.
According Peter Ludlow, it all started with a simple post on his blog, The Alphaville Herald. Earlier this month, the University of Michigan philosophy professor spotted something that looked suspiciously like prostitution. Ludlow (whose avatar, Urizenus, is shown above) covers events and activities that take place in The Sims Online and writes about them in the Herald. He had stumbled onto a group of players who were exchanging in-game 'sex' and 'pleasures' for simoleans, the game's currency."
Gaming Age - Xbox Live connects U.S. troops to friends and family: "Today at a ceremony in downtown Manhattan, scores of military families will converge at the local U.S. Organizations (USO) Center to be among the first to connect with loved ones serving overseas by playing video games and talking with each other while they play. Changing the way troops reunite with their loved ones back home, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) teamed up with the USO and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game system to launch an innovative and groundbreaking program, Operation: Live Connections."
Sniðug leið til að sameina fólk víðsvegar um heiminn, þó ég vildi síður að bandarískir hermenn væru yfirleitt annarsstaðar en heima hjá sér eða þá að herir væru reknir yfirhöfuð.
