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Terra Nova looks again at the issue of cultural borrowing in World of Warcraft. (via Jon Walton)

Also, America’s Army is an FPS game developed in association with the US Army to encourage recruitment; TN reports a virtual protest.

Continual fallout from the original Terra Nova post on Horde/Evil. Liz Lawley at Many2Many:

“When I was playing online on Monday, Joi Ito said that he thought World of Warcraft was becoming the “new golf” for the technology set. I think there’s some truth in that, but it brings with it all kinds of additional social pressures and complexities, of which avatar racial choices are only the beginning. I think there’s some fertile ground for research in that boundary area, the crossover between the real and game worlds, and the extent to which they influence each other.”

Consider also that this conversation happened while online with World of Warcraft. Consider that I’ve once considered playing WoW for business networking reasons. (Now consider the impact Warcraft on your business life if your new business partner was short on mana when your tank really needed a heal.)

Oy, golf.

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