1. Want to win 140-thousand Linden dollars? Then make a machinima and submit it to the University of Western Australia’s competition.
2. Veteran platform OLIVE has announced new pricing and a perpetual licensing model.
3. The dynamos at ReactionGrid have launched Jibe, a web-based world based on the increasingly popular Unity3D engine.
4. Frenzoo are now offering 3D chat rooms.
5. Kzero have an excellent summary of a piece of research conducted on children’s play in virtual worlds: do take the time to have a read. 52% of those young children surveyed used virtual worlds regularly and there’s some incisive discussion on the interaction between marketing, parents and children.
6. Relay for Life 2010 in Second Life was once again a big suspense. Get a glimpse here. 53 million Linden dollars were raised, which is 221-thousand US dollars: an amazing effort by any standard.
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