Has real money trading (RMT) market leader IGE been sold? This became a hot topic with the news that World of Warcraft database Wowhead had been sold for a reported $1 million to Affinity Media (the ZAM Network), which already owns two other major WoW databases, Thottbot and Allakhazam. In early 2006, much was […]

There’s a discussion at Slashdot about the possibility that Congress may consider taxing virtual goods. The post is based on an CNet item by Daniel Terdiman which notes that Congress’ Joint Economic Committee will receive a report on virtual world economies in August. The story offers no news on what the report will say, but […]

The MMOBux website has a series of interviews with veterans of real money trading in game gold and other virtual goods. Interview subjects include Michael Sheng of FAVGames, Bob from UOTreasures and Marty from IRNewb, among others. Most are brief, but some interesting anecdotes. My favorite: the guy who sold his art collection buy […]

Slashdot has been the site in many heated discussions of the merits or real money trading (RMT) in MMORPG games and virtual worlds, including some of the stories we’ve written here on our blog.  With the recent “official” launch of Sparter, the peer-to-peer trading exchange backed by venture capitalists Bessemer Capital, the company decided […]