Here are some books, presentations, papers, posts and shows that I either have read and love or don’t have yet but will very shortly: Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams’ update to their ‘…On Game Design’ book: Fundamentals of Game Design (and check out the companion site for designers & educators!); Latest edition of the Design

On Friday December 29th ABC’s 7.30 Report broadcast a segment on Second Life. It featured academic mates Dr Angela Thomas and Sal Humphries — who I have referred to before in my articles on SL (and who also recently wrote this article on gaming and story for The Australian), Entropia maven David Storey and me.

I bought the December issue of Time Magazine to read about their Person of the Year: You. I was shocked to find the articles full of sensationalist writing about the rise of the person in light of ‘Web 2.0’. It was full of lots of badly researched ideas such as ‘Web 2.0’. The term has