Popular Culture
Shanghai Moves to Regulate Banning in Online Games
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Via PlayNoEvil, Shanghai appears to be laying down rules about what companies can ban players for and how they should go about it:
Regulators from the Shanghai Information Services Association in China are moving to standardize notifications and evidence when players are banned from online games.
This includes notifications for when accounts are suspended (frozen) and when [...]
Workplace Discrimination Against WoW Players
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008I just saw Darren’s post pointing out this f13 thread where an online media recruiter was specifically instructed not to hire WoW players.
I met with a recruiter recently (online media industry) and in conversation I happened to mention I’d spent way too much time in the early 2000s playing online games, which I described as [...]
Runescape: Kind of a Big Deal
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008I knew that Runescape was popular with the kids, but not so popular that it would come in at #5 in Yahoo’s top ten searches of 2008. That’s two spaces higher than last year. It’s going places. For reference, here are the searches it managed to beat out:
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Angelina Jolie
10. [...]