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When Christian Renaud left Cisco last month, he said he’d be starting his own company as well as helping two startups bring their products to market. At least one of those companies is the Technology Intelligence Group, which was soft-launched…

“Home is not a social network - it’s focused on games. It’s a visual representation of the PlayStation community,” SCEE’s Darren Cairns and Liam Wickham explained at the Develop Conference. According to Develop Mag, the focus of the talk–and, seemingly,…

Sony began accepting applications today for Japanese PlayStation 3 users to get into the closed beta for Home. Home, the console-based virtual world, has been kept in closed beta since it was announced almost exactly a year ago and delayed…

Virtual Worlds London is heating up in a big way. The show is not until 20-21 October 2008 but already we’re pleased to announce that Google’s own Niniane Wang, the mind behind Google’s Lively virtual world, as our first announced…

Six Degrees Games has raised $7 million from an unknown number of investors, reports SoCalTech. The investment was published in PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree’s Q2 report, and Prism VentureWorks, also an investor in Conduit Labs and SparkPlay Media, lists Six Degrees Games…

Last week, MTV.co.uk announced the beta of House, a Flash-based virtual world for socializing and hanging out in an MTV-branded environment. House is a more light-weight option than the U.S.-based vMTV, which is part of the goal to reach as…

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At the vBusiness Expo, Steve Prentice, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, said that the company’s much-touted prediction that 80 percent of active Internet users will be involved in virtual worlds by 2011 was never meant to be a…

Earlier this month CyWorld launched its 3D Mini Life application, and it might be on deck to be the most successful virtual world ever. The 2D version of Mini Homepages and Mini Rooms has attracted about 25 million users. And,…

“BMW have decided they will be leaving Second Life in the near future,” Achim Muellers, Head of Brand Relations for BMW, told Aleister Kronos. It’s not clear why the auto company is leaving, but it’s hardly the first brand.