Quickly addicted to the tasks of mining and building, I awoke at 4 AM to play with my kids online for an hour before they left for school and I left for meetings. At night I'd check out what they made. They wanted to play Minecraft every waking hour of the day. And so did I.

Though Second Life is carried out entirely by cyber avatars within the confines of a virtual world, new documentary Life 2.0 steps outside the screen ...

I read some of the history of virtual currencies. Facebook credits is different. Why? Because Facebook is the equivalent of the third most populous country in the real world.

Surfing the web I came across the most unique and creative idea I've seen in a while. A new virtual world filled with informational elves. Inf (dot) net has an amazing project.

The combination of the web and technologists seem to have found a way to bring the "virtual" world of the web into the real world of our daily lives.

Wow, your very own space station for $330k, sounds like a real bargain. Until you realize that it's located on Planet Calypso, a virtual world. Yes, in the midst of the great recession, someone actually paid $330,000 for a virtual space station.

Virtual goods such as weapons or digital bottles of champagne traded in the US could be worth up to $5 billion in the next five years, experts predict...