The PlayStation 3 game Warhawk has opened a space in Home, and it's getting good reactions from some gamers. More info. The Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies has a new exhibit on virtual worlds running in Just Leap In, though it looks like it's temporarily down. More info. Sifaka World has already with the [...]
This past fall, the IBM Academy of Technology held two major events in Second Life. The first was a specific Virtual World Conference for over 200 members. Based on the success and the savings, the Academy also decided to host part of the general meeting for the Academy the next month. Chairman Emeritus Irving Wladawsky-Berger has already described the [...]
Jambool provides a virtual currency and virtual economy management platform for games and app developers. So far, it's primarily been focused on social networks, recently launching a payment solution for Facebook. It's looking to expand to a broader base, though. CEO Vikas Gupta was recently interviewed by our sister site Virtual Goods News. While he declined to release [...]
Jambool provides a virtual currency and virtual economy management platform for games and app developers. So far, it's primarily been focused on social networks, recently launching a payment solution for Facebook. It's looking to expand to a broader base, though. CEO Vikas Gupta was recently interviewed by our sister site Virtual Goods News. While he declined to release [...]
Earlier this month the Grondstedt Group helped the Trade Promotion Management Associates hold a conference in Second Life. The half-day conference consisted of a series of 45-minute panel discussions and breaks for exhibits in Gronstedt Group’s beach-resort themed environment. The event attracted 160 registered attendees from companies as diverse as manufacturing, retail, and industry analyst firms. Most interestingly, [...]
Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of February 27th, 2009. The Wrap-Up is where VGN spotlights stories that we didn't get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the virtual goods industry. Cronous Adds Limited Item PackagesLizard Interactive's free-to-play MMORPG Cronous is launching limited edition item packages next [...]
The following is a guest post from Tony O'Driscoll, Conference Chair for our upcoming 3D Training, Learning and Collaboration (3D TLC) Conference taking place April 20-21, 2009 in Washington, DC. For the last two months I have had the unique opportunity to speak with over 100 pioneers who are working tirelessly to solve pressing enterprise issues [...]
Jambool initially formed as one of many start-ups that wanted to turn a profit on social networking apps that prominently featured virtual currency as a source of monetization. The social games scene on Facebook and other networks is crowded, though. That's when CEO Vikas Gupta spotted a way to turn the crowded social game scene [...]
Shidonni has added MrNussbaum.com to its growing list of distributor sites. Like Primary Games, which Shidonni partnered with last month, MrNussbaum is focused on educational content and targets not only kids, but teachers, parents, and classes. Shidonni has also partnered with 8 other portals, but these two seem particularly helpful. Shidonni, which allows kids to draw [...]
Shidonni has added MrNussbaum.com to its growing list of distributor sites. Like Primary Games, which Shidonni partnered with last month, MrNussbaum is focused on educational content and targets not only kids, but teachers, parents, and classes. Shidonni has also partnered with 8 other portals, but these two seem particularly helpful. Shidonni, which allows kids to draw [...]
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