Determined to be different is the Commonwealth Bank’s slogan, with the company having ditched the memorable “let’s offend Americans” campaign, switching now to augmenting your reality instead!

OMG – if you thought Sydney house prices were expensive, wait ‘til you find out what they’re paying for electrons, zeroes and ones representing a virtual night club in the cyberspace of “Entropia Universe”!

Is the latest Chinese government Internet ban actually a good thing for a change? Ask most gamers and I reckon the answer would be a resounding yes.

When Google launched a real time interactive 3D avatar world called Lively it promised the ability to express yourself in a more fun way. So why is it now dropping a bomb on Lively users by committing Second Suicide?

When cartoons get caught with their pants down, the real life consequences are not always funny - as Dave Barmy has discovered.

Some 600 years after construction began, China's Palace Museum and IBM opened the sprawling walled fortress to the world via an immersive 3D virtual experience.

For many people, a 'second life' can become just as real as the first one. Take the Japanese woman who killed her virtual husband after he divorced her in a game called Maple Story, and now finds herself under arrest in the real world.

It sounds like something right out of a Roald Dahl story, but this is much stranger than any fiction: gold farming has become a $500 million global virtual outsourcing business.

On Wednesday August 6 IBM Australia & New Zealand will stage a day long virtual conference for IT professionals. It's just like a real conference with keynote speakers, multiple streams, an exhibition area and networking opportunities And you even get a lanyard, virtual of course!

Google has launched Lively, an immersive 3D world populated by avatars and which lets you create your own space in which to chat. Sound familiar? So just what is Google doing jumping aboard the Second Life bandwagon?