Here is a article from Wired about how terrrorism could be potentially modeled and studied through World of Warcraft.  Although, I think that this is neat in theory, I have to agree with the author’s summation that WOW could never help analysts understand the social underpinnings of terrorism.

World of Warcraft Shines Light on Terror Tactics

HOT!!!!!!  Hellz yeah!  I guess this will get somewhere affordable for the likes me in a year or so.

I guess you could build yourself a nice little supercomputer with this chipset, too.  Modelling!!!  WhooHoo!!!

This is pretty cool.  It sounds like once AMD gets their hybrid graphics hardware to act stably, entry level gaming systems will be available at the sub $1000 range ($599 speculated in this blog).  It is a good move on AMD’s part to try to make the CPU seems less important to system performance since they are unable to over take Intel.  However, recall that Intel has also recognized the importance of the GPU moving forward so AMD will not find this to be an easy to fight either.  This all, though, is good for the customer who will have all sorts of computer choices available to them because the competition between Intel, Nvidia, and AMD/ATI.  I look forward to seeing how things are in 2009 as this war heats up.

This is a neat way to establish a community for elite gamers and extreme GTA fans.  The “Police Blotter” is quite clever, especially if it feeds back into game play.

It kinda tough for me to call someone who plays Bejeweled and does crossword puzzles online a “gamer.”  But, I guess it depends on how you want to spin the data …

US Gamer Population Swells to 72 Percent