MSNBC - How young is too young for video games?
"The gamer side of me is looking forward to playing video games with Oz. In my fantasy future, video gaming is something my son and I do together to bond. Plus, he thinks I’m super cool because I own all the latest video games and because I kick major ass when we play 'Halo 14' together. But there’s also the paranoid parent side of me that can’t help but worry that video games, somehow, will warp my beautiful boy’s brain — that he’ll become badly addicted to them, that they’ll distract him from important things like school, the great outdoors and a career as a successful whatever. Yes, in my weakest moments, even I fall prey to the anti-gaming rhetoric."

Ten Ton Hammer - The Launch That Faced Thousands of Ships.
"The full impact of Frogster's choices will be difficult to measure for a while yet, but the sales charts don't lie: there is room for success in the West if a F2P game is built well, handled properly, and marketed wisely. In the short term, the first dent into the armor of F2P skeptics is here. In the long term, I expect to see more hybridization of revenue models from MMOG. Gamers can expect to see more companies use the plans like Dungeon Runners that allow people to play for free forever but also offer a subscription and/or a box sale. SOE's Free Realms is the perfect example of a future title that will likely have all the polish and shine of RoM and use a mixed method of generating future development dollars."