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1. The Financial Times (UK) - Sony aims for a new virtual world order. "The age of the avatar has arrived for games consoles, with the launch of Sony's Home yesterday completing the response of the big three makers to the growth in popularity of social networking and virtual worlds. The internet connectivity of the current generation of consoles is allowing Microsoft, Nintendo … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. Forbes.com (USA) - Second Life's Second Wind. "In what tech pundits at Gartner Research call the curve of hype and gloom, Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life, has officially entered the gloom stage. In October, Reuters pulled its full-time Second Life reporter Eric Krangel, who had written daily news stories about the virtual world's economy for a year and a half, out of … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. BBC (UK) - Virtual worlds with real purposes. "The idea of having a virtual you following the real you around may seem rather strange - for those of us used to having our feet firmly on the ground. But the creation of a virtual Berlin lets people be in two places at the same time - as 20km of the city has been faithfully replicated into an online world. By the end of 2008, … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. The Independent (UK) - Cybersex rules: Inside the world of ‘teledildonics'. "When I first deposited Journalist Hellershanks in Second Life, I wanted him to stand out. I gave him a shock of bright- orange hair, and a crisp white shirt, and I adjusted his height to about six-foot-four. He looked pretty good, I thought; but he was still missing something. And so, one morning … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. Sky News (UK) - Woman Divorces Over Virtual Lover. "Amy Taylor, 28, cited unreasonable behaviour in the court papers, describing how their three-year marriage came to an end when she twice walked in on her husband pretending to have sex in an online game. Her estranged husband is now engaged to one of the women he had an 'affair' with on Second Life - even though they have … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news