Lojak's Stupid Bullshit
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According to an article in PC Authority, Sony and Microsoft both announced Second Life style VWs at the Tokyo Games Show on October 10th. Sony's "Home" is supposed to be released for PS3 on November 19th but doesn't appear to include user created content. The Microsoft entry into the field is on the Xbox360 and titled, cleverly, New Xbox Experience. Microsoft's John Schappert said, "Our goal is to make the Xbox experience… Read More

There's a post on TechCrunch about IBM and the China's Palace Museum collaborating on a VW that duplicates all 178 acres of the Forbidden City. It's built on the gaming engine, Torque from Garage Games instead of OpenSim. Seems counterproductive to me to base a VW on a proprietary gaming platform when there's a perfectly good Open Source VW platform available. As near as I can tell from the article though, this isn't really a VW with user created content but a FPS without any shooting. Read More