I know this doesn’t fit into the realm of virtual worlds per se, but it’s still of interest to any Blizzard geeks like myself: you can now opt-in for the Starcraft 2 beta! To do so, simply log into your Battle.net account (all Blizzard accounts have been automatically converted to Battle.net accounts) and choose to [...]

There’s an interesting post over at Terra Nova about the historical accuracy of video games. It’s true that most of the video games out today that depict war or other historical sequences are quite far from the actual truth. In a comment on that post I said the following: “I think one of the problems [...]