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Thu, Dec 08, 2011 | 04:30 GMT

Thursday Shorts II: Spyro, MotorStorm, Iran 1979, WoW, Total Recall, Witcher 2

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Time for some more shorts to get you ready for Friday. Just think: when you wake up tomorrow, your work week will be almost over. Isn’t that grand?

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Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | 21:47 BST

$148.5 million pumped into virtual worlds in Q3, says VWM

According to Virtual Worlds Management, $148.5 million has been invested in in 12 virtual worlds-related companies during the third quarter, says IGN.

The total investment in the virtual worlds space is now over $493 million and counting for this year alone.

The Virtual Worlds London conference takes place October 20-21.

Full thing through the link.

By Mike Bowden

Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | 07:16 BST

1 billion virtual world users in the next decade, says report

According to this GamesDaily piece, a Strategy Analytics report has predicted that more than 1 billion people will use virtual worlds in the next ten years.

The firm claims this will present an MMO service opportunity of some $8 billion.

“Despite a multitude of challenges, virtual worlds present a unique marketing opportunity to target a highly sought demographic, and virtual worlds should be part of a company’s marketing portfolio,” said Strategy Analytics president Harvey Cohen.