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According to a Today’s Gamers MMO Focus Report by Gamesindustry.com and TNS, Americans spent an eye-watering £2.55 billion on MMOs last year.

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Yahoo is reporting that a Dutch court has convicted two teenagers to 360 hours of community service after they stole a “virtual amulet and a virtual mask” and promptly added the items to their accounts in RuneScape.

“These virtual goods are goods (under Dutch law), so this is theft,” said the court after it had learned that the youths in question beat and kicked the victim, and threatened him with a knife. Nice.

That’ll learn ‘em. Thanks, Eurogamer.

By Mike Bowden

Vince Farquharson has been appointed the new head of UK-based developed Jagex’s hugely popular MMO Runescape, writes Edge.

Farquharson will oversee the Runescape expansion after work as creative director and development director for THQ for the last three years.

We wish Vince Farquharson all the best in his new job.

By Mike Bowden

Jagex has shown a video of stupidly popular browser MMO Runescape running in an all-new high detail, full-screen version. After the break.

The update is currently in beta and isn’t dated as yet.

More than 130 million people have played the fantasy game since it launched in 1999.

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