The 2005 ELSPA UK Interactive Entertainment Industry Report is available now at their website [pdf]. It covers console, mobile, on-line (to some degree) and causal gaming. I found their section on why people don’t play games the most interesting. Particularly this quote: Gaming is a lifestyle pursuit which is in competition not only with other

I’m getting a heck of a lot of Net traffic from people wanting to follow up on NBC’s Treasure Hunt. So here are some sites I’ve found that are working on deciphering the clues (geez, shouldn’t NBC have this somewhere?): NBC Teasure Hunters Blog (Steeple Media) NBC Treasure Hunters Forum (Steeple Media) YahooGroups Treasure Hunters Game Discussion List

I?ve been enjoying travelling around Second Life (SL) and investigating, among other things, the marketing systems being developed. Why SL? Everything in SL is created by the ‘residents’ who keep their IP and can choose to give away or sell their creations. This virtual money, Linden dollars,?can be?converted into real US dollars and withdrawn from