The World Within Or Online Multiplayer Games In Depth by Sergey Alekseyev
For most of the 20th century, life used to be rather simple for most people. There was school, college, work, retirement. Along with that you had hobbies like cars, bowling, or gardening. The former was more or a less of a chore, the latter the fun stuff you did in your free time, usually... This category still remains predominant in total worldwide player numbers (according to Valve, Counterstrike is currently still the most popular online multiplayer game). ... The last group, the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games), is the area which popularity has really exploded...

Second Life is What You Make of It by Madison Lockwood
Second Life (SL) is a privately owned, partly subscription-based 3-D virtual world, introduced in 2003 by West Coast company Linden Lab. Users can visit this virtual world almost as if it were a real place via their home computer and an internet connection. ... Technically, Second Life has the most in common in the gamming industry with Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, or MMORPGs. ... Content generation and sale is a primary motivator of the game's economy. ... In fact, people are spending $15 million in real dollars every month within the confines of the game.

Enigma: Rising Tide Review by Neal Stevens
SINGLE PLAYER REVIEW Enigma lives! Tesseraction has released a single player offline version of their upcoming massively multiplayer naval game and it lives up to its potential and then some. Playing Enigma offline gives you a chance to see what this game is all about and train for the... If Tesseraction is able to forge ahead and bring new versions and enhancements to Enigma as promised, including the massive multiplayer component, Enigma will have a lock on the naval game community. ... While it is an action game, in some ways Enigma is more simulation than Silent Hunter II.