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Teen Second Life
Teen Second Life is a version of Second Life reserved for teenagers, running on the so-called "Teen Grid." It was officially opened to the public on February 14, 2005 for people aged 13–17 to play Second Life, without entering false information to ...
EVE Online: Banker's virtual theft causes real life panic
Recently when a player simply known as "Ricdic" in EVE Online stole sever billion dollars of in-game currency from one of the game's largest banks and wound up causing a run on the financial institution last month. What made the theft even more tragi...
Free Realms, an MMO Built For Kids
Sony Online Entertainment is taking a big risk on an untested property, hoping to strike it big with a completely new fan base — kids.Free Realms is one part World of Warcraft, one part AOL chat room and one part kid-friendly online world Club Peng...
Kids TV Show Zula Patrol Launches Virtual World
Zula USA launched its kids-science show The Zula Patrol in 2005 and has had a successful run on channels including PBS, NBC and Telemundo. But the company is trying to extend its brand with a virtual world for kids, ZulaWorld, based on the science th...
Small Worlds and Hi5 combine virtual world and social networking
SmallWorlds has teamed up with social network Hi5 to open up SmallWorlds’ cartoon-like virtual world to Hi5’s 60 million monthly visitors.Hi5’s users can use Hi5’s games channel to access the browser-based virtual environment of SmallWorlds, ...
Funcom Wants to Conquer the Free MMO Space
Funcom has revealed further details on the status of its free-to-play MMO plans, noting upcoming significant development milestones and project scope. Funcom has been mainly associated with its big budget Age of Conan MMO lately but, as the project e...

