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Lord British - King of Saturn.
The Space Review has posted an interview with Richard "Lord British" Garriot discussing his involvement with space tourism. Marvin the Martian created an earth shattering kaboom before uttering these immortal words:

"Richard Garriott lives in Austin, Texas, and is a producer at computer gaming company NCSoft. He has had many hit computer gaming titles going back to the dawn of the personal computer age in 1979, including his famed Ultima series. Less well known has been his quiet role as vice chairman of Space Adventures, which includes some notable firsts. The Space Review conducted an email interview with him after his first space PowerPoint presentation at the Metropolitan Breakfast Club in Austin."

You can read the entire Richard Garriott Interview at The Space Review.

America's Favourite Game Goes Massively Multiplayer.
Next Generation has posted an interview with Gabriel Law of Netamin discussing the upcoming massively multiplayer online baseball game, Ultimate Baseball. Pete Rose has nothing to do with this game and also didn't say this:

"Netamin is taking the MMOG market in new directions and opening up new markets with its sports products. Next Generation talks Ultimate Baseball with producer, Gabriel Law."

You can read the entire Ultimate Baseball Interview at Next Generation.

Married Couples Who Have Never Met.
PointlessWasteofTime has posted an entertaining article titles, 'A World of Warcraft World' discussing how MMORPGs are going to change the world:

" If you don't know what an "MMORPG" is, don't worry. It's a geek term, like "e-mail" used to be a geek term. For now let's just say it's the most instantly gripping, involving and demanding entertainment technology ever invented. The addiction rate appears to be about twice that of crack Cocaine. There are 10 million MMORPG users in the world and their population is doubling every two years. "

You can read the entire A World of Warcraft World Op/Ed at PointlessWasteofTime.

For newcomers to MMOGs (and Guild Wars in particular)...

Chris Pickering with UK's PC Review.com has published a fairly milktoast review on Guild Wars. It serves well, however, to acquaint newcomers to the game and its premise:

Now Guild Wars is quite a different beast from the likes of World of Warcraft or Everquest. While these games rely on monthly subscriptions to cover all kinds of costs, with Guild Wars you never pay anything more than the initial purchase in your local gaming emporium. Again, where the other big hitters in the genre require incredible numbers of hours put in, in order to get to any kind of decent in game level, Guild Wars requires you to display your intelligence and skill. With the in game level cap set at 20, which is reachable in quite speedy time, your own skill is required if your going to ‘beat’ the game.

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