China
With China's presence online expanding, it's not exactly shocking that companies are springing up at a quick pace with new virtual offerings, though one has to wonder how many
Second Life clones one country needs, even a country the size of China. HiPiHi, uWorld, Frenzoo, and an as-of-yet unnamed offering from Shanda that will probably be a pretty faithful copy of
Second Life (it's Shanda, after all, not exactly known for honoring intellectual property rights) are all being announced or scheduled to hit the Chinese market soon. Of course, they're also facing stiff competition from foreign companies both far away from and close to home.
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Kotaku
In 1980, the Stern company came up with it's fist bonafide video game arcade hit, Berzerk. The game was distinctive for many reasons, not the least of which is being the first game to have a talking feature. In the game you play a "humanoid" who is being chased around the maze levels by angry killer robots. Touching the walls, robots or getting shot by robots spelled instant death. Your job is to exterminate all the robots on the level so you can move on to the next. there were 64,000 different levels, each one harder than the last. But you better be quick with your killing or along comes Evil Otto, a sort of smiley faced orange that would bounce around and threaten to kill you. Evil Otto was indestructible and would try to block your escape to the next level.
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