When I first started playing 4Story, a free MMO with the choice of using real money to pay for in-game things, I had a very difficult time. It is a pretty decent quality game, more so than I had expected from a free one, but I assume that the income from more serious players helps [...]

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As I was saying in class the other day, Machinima (a contraction of ‘machine’ and ‘cinema’ which as far as I know no one knows how to pronounce) as found, for example, on Youtube, represents a really useful resource for representations of online environments, and is part of the ‘media ecology’ of what Mimi Ito [...]

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