Second Life is Popping

Economist Article

NYT Magazine Article

And this from Valerie:

Machinima has made it's way into prime-time!
I was watching the season premere of South Park tonight, and this time, the boys were playing World of Warcraft. About half of the show was shot using the game engine. And they did a great job of it. The voices were sincing up quite well with the avatars within the game. None of the videos have popped up on the web yet, since the episode just aired, but I found a video that has been hiding in the Blizzard website promoting the episode.

watch the video