Computer game "Spore" has Darwin doing stupid creature befriending dance in his grave!

Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 weeks 17 hours (www.sciencemag.org)

The makers of the computer game "Spore" promise a real evolutionary experience: Start out the game as a microbe just trying to survive and travel all the way through the history of evolution into a species capable of a modern, civilized society! Depending on the choices the player makes early on in the game, the later species can have a seemlingly limitless range of fascinating, monstrous forms

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Scientific conference held in World of Warcraft!

Darkfrog submitted, created time 5 months 1 day (www.sciencemag.org)

What better place to discuss computer science, really? For practicality reasons, it was a Horde-only conference. Any newb or Alliance player was required to create a new character and level up ahead of time so that older players wouldn't have to spend the whole time fending off monsters with the munchies

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