links for 2006-09-30

A change to the ESRB would require the ESRB to play any game rated in its entirety. Heh. I wonder if this goes for long, drawn out games like WoW and other mmogs.

Scientists at MIT side with Al Gore in the Inconvenient Truth

Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) might not come back for the final two movies.

Counter-Strike now uses demand statistics to price the weapons - since the supply of weapons in CS is essentially unlimited, they're using this as a form of game balance -- popular weapons get more expensive, less used weapons get cheaper.

Academic Papers on MMOGs

4-hour delivery of gadgets in the San Francisco Bay Area. Could be dangerous.