Originally spotted in NMA, but their site is packed with reg and subscription walls, so here’s the story from another source:
WRC.com, currently a subscription site, will be relaunched on 1 January as a free website, following the acquisition of the commercial rights by N.One, the digital arm of North One TV, which produces the site’s [...]

Linden Labs and IBM are teaming up to create open standards for virtual worlds, which should allow movement between multiple environments by a single avatar:
At the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo at San Jose, Calif., the two companies are announcing plans to develop open standards that will allow avatars to roam from one virtual community [...]

Fictional Media have released more details about the mysterious Soho Project
What’s Your Soho?
Fictional Media, in association with the London Games Festival Fringe, bring you an entirely new concept in cross-media gaming.
The Soho Project is a make-your-own reality game taking place online and on the streets of Soho. Register your own Fictional Identity, join a team [...]

Frank Boyd is running the Play/Time Lab at the London Games Festival Next month. It has a very broad remit, but the most precise way of referring to it would be “ARG workshop”. Here’s more on what it’s about, with a link to the application form at the end. The deadline for applications is 9:00am [...]