Some links to interesting discussion

• Super Meat Boy Developer To EA: DRM Hurts Your Bottom Line More Than Piracy Does
• The Sims 4
• Getting_EA_ready_for_the_future
• ErotiSim Sex and the Sims A very interesting consideration of the Sims and sexuality. Originally published in 2007.

About Online Games and Virtual Worlds

• In Virtual Play, Sex Harassment Is All Too Real
• Fat, Ugly or Slutty Blog about women in online gaming
• Real economics in virtual worlds: a massively multiplayer online game case study: Runescape
• Real Economist Learns From Virtual World
• Real lessons from virtual worlds
• Mathematics in a virtual world: Using Second Life for the teaching and learning of mathematics
• Seeing Is Believing: Maybe virtual reality isn't just a game anymore. Maybe it's a way to build a better you

   

About Gaming in General

• Games link to aggression comes from challenge not violence

Fiction around online and virtual

• Edward Castronova: Dying Online excellent short story.