Gold farmers beware. Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate for the US Internal Revenue Service has published her annual report – this year she recommends that the US Government looks into taxing the virtual economies of games like Second Life and World of Warcraft.
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Sony’s PS3 Home full open beta may be underway, but someone’s not a fan. Aaron Greenberg, group product manager, Microsoft Xbox 360, has called rival Sony’s PS3 Home service “2005 tech in 2008″. And that’s not all. Get your handbags ready gentlemen…
According to an article in The Sunday Times, Sony’s PS3 Home virtual world – the console’s rival to Nintendo’s Miis and Microsoft’s “New Xbox Experience” – is set to launch within nine days.
In a case that’s getting weirder and weirder, it has emerged that “Victor Vezina” the Second Life avatar who is being sued over alleged trademark infringements is none other than Victor Keegan from The Guardian newspaper’s technology team.
An open beta of Home, Sony’s rival to the Xbox New Experience (and Nintendo’s Miis), will be available in the “coming weeks”, available to all PS3 owners. In an official post on Sony’s Home forum, Home’s community manager “TedTheDog” has said that the plan is to ramp up numbers in the current closed beta rapidly to “load test” the system, including adding European language testers. Once load testing is complete, Sony will move to an open beta.
Google’s just launched its own social networking virtual world, a bit like second life, but without all the creepy undertones.