From YahooNews: 

Nev. couple blame Internet for neglect
RENO, Nev. - A couple who authorities say were so obsessed with the Internet and video games that they left their babies starving and suffering other health problems have pleaded guilty to child neglect.
The children of Michael and Iana Straw, a boy age 22 months and a girl age […]

 
From the OCRegister:
Blizzard makes WoW wish virtual reality
Make-A-Wish and a willing company help a grade schooler become the first outsider to create a new character in World of Warcraft.
IRVINE – For World of Warcraft players hanging out in Shadowmoon Valley last Friday, bizarre events occurred that can only be explained by a small group of […]

Nerds

   (Wow Nerd Chick Whore, and her Magic Horsie)
Well here’s a new one.  Apparently this woman whored herself out for 5,000 gold for her level 70 Elf-Druid in Worlds of Warcraft,  she needed the cash to buy herself a magic mount or some shit.   (I’m not really sure, as I’ve never played Wow)
From her original Craigslist […]

Some guy creates a 1st life nostalgia film.
I have to admit there are days when I miss my Middle Eastern style house by my lake on the desert planet Lok in Star Wars Galaxies. The view of the sunset over the mountains from my balacony were pretty amazing.

 
From Gamespot.com:
WOW: 8 million served
World’s top MMORPG proves even more popular, hitting McDonald’s-esque milestone more than two years after its release.
Currently, the population of Earth is estimated to be around 6.7 billion people. As of this week, roughly 0.1 percent of the sum of modern humanity plays World of Warcraft. Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced that […]

 
From The Register UK:
CNET interviewer assaulted by flying wang
Airborne penises this week attacked CNET reporter and Second Life publicist Daniel Sadville, causing an unprecedented although not insurmountable interview interruption.
Daniel Sadville looked to continue his groundbreaking work hyping the Second Life online game by interviewing alleged virtual millionaire Ailin Graef (aka Anshe Chung). Sadville had invited […]

A friend of mine recently introduced me to INSELKAMPF.   It’s a simple online game where each player controls a little island, you try to build up the island using 3 resources (Gold, Stone & Wood), and then eventually send out ships to colonize, and take the other players islands.
It’s a very simple game that only […]

For you “Worlds of Warcraft” Nerds out there…  A Nifty Zoomable Google map of the new Outland Expansion world.

From SFGATE.COM: 
A real reporter in a virtual world Second Life gamers can read ‘news’ of online goings-on
Second Life is an online community that has its own monetary system, tattoo parlors and wedding planners — and now the role-playing game that runs out of San Francisco has a full-time beat reporter from the Reuters international news […]

 
From The Contra Costa Times: 
Atheist groups are on the rise
By Rebecca Rosen Lum
Contra Costa Times
When Richard Golden put the word out that he was starting a group for atheists in Walnut Creek, Calif., about a dozen people showed up. Two years later, 80 are dues-paying members and several more drop in on twice-monthly meetings to […]

 
(inside a MagiQuest Nerd cave)
A company called “MagiQuest” is trying an interesting new concept.  They are building “Kingdoms” where people will come into a computer fantasy game like setting in a 20,000 square foot facility and interact with video screens, (and maybe live actors?  I’m not clear on this) to solve puzzles in quests etc.

(Nerdy kids with […]

From BreitBart.COM: 
Online Wagering Under Attack in Congress
Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables won’t like what Congress is doing. On Tuesday, the House plans to vote on a bill that would ban credit cards for paying online bets and could padlock gambling Web sites.
The legislation would clarify existing law to spell out that it […]

Good luck putting this Genie back in the bottle.
The sad thing is, they’ll probably try to ”make an example” out of some poor schmuck playing 25 cent Texas Holdem who didn’t know his way around a proxy server.
Stupid Laws seem to be an epidemic these days.
From PokerMag.COM:
Now A Felony In The State Of Washington To Play Poker […]