December 19, 2005
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Virtual Apocalyptic Tourism
Clive Thompson takes a spin around Asheron’s Call 2 — an online game scheduled to power down forever in just a couple of weeks — to find out: What’s it like in a place where the world is literally about to end?
Some people talk about “new games journalism” (c.f. the New Journalism) and I think this piece hits closer to the mark than anything I have yet read.
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