Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was released two weeks ago, to the tune of $775M in sales in the first 5 days. Let that sink in for a minute. Modern Warfare 3 is now the highest grossing game release of all time, smashing the previous record of $650M by a game in the same series, Call of Duty: Black Ops. In fact, Modern Warfare 3 is now the highest grossing entertainment release of all time. To put things in perspective, the movie Avatar (the highest grossing film of all time) reached a billion dollars in sales worldwide in around 3 weeks,...
read moreSlate recently ran an article called “Why Second Life Failed,” but it’s all old news by now. No one can doubt that second life failed to live up its initial hype way back in 2006 – within just a year it had largely fizzled and faded from public interest. Yet what articles like this fail to account for is that second life continues to grow, slowly but surely, month by month. The team here at FES used to work in Second Life, and got out to pursue other technologies over a year ago – yet we still get requests for...
read moreAs games and virtual worlds evolve, I’m constantly reminded of a truism whose origin I’ve forgotten: People create games within life, but people also create life within games The first half is obvious: get any group of children (or adults) together and give them nothing to do – within minutes they will be kicking a can, or chasing each other. It’s just what we do. The second half takes a bit of a watchful eye. Take a look around next time you’re in WoW, and you’ll see people forming friendships, dating,...
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