Still fascinated by the possibilities of the virtual gaming world, I have been scanning around message boards and whatnot when I came across the link to this Disturbing World of Warcraft Clip. A member of a guild (a unified horde of WOW players) died in real life. Her guild decided to give her a virtual funeral, out in the open, in a kill zone. They invited players from other guilds and stated that it would be a nonviolent event. Well, players from a less scrupulous guild raided the funeral and slaughtered all, and I mean ALL, of the attendees.

For those of you interested in further exploring hypertexts/interactive fiction, the twelfth annual Interactive Fiction Competition is going on right now. You can download and judge the entries. Interactive fictions of this sort present the reader with the beginning of the story. Then the reader types in actions for the characters to perform. The story responds by telling what happens as a result of these actions. Your decisions influence the outcome. It very much reminds me of a textual version of a video game like Myst. The reader is presented with an environment and must use their intelligence to navigate through it.