My Avatars & Me

"A Multi User Dimension can become a context for discovering who one is and wishes to be. In this way, the games are laboratories for the construction of identity."
-- Sherry Turkle, Massachusetts Intstitute of Technology.

Robbie Cooper puts photos of gamers next to their avatars.

Hey, that sounds fun! Let's try it.


Me and my Guild Wars necromancer. Bonelace would actually make an imposing, if mildly uncomfortable, business suit.


Me and my Guild Wars mesmer. No, he does not use his nipples to mesmerize people.

Why stop at comparison? Let's go for fusion!


Here's Rupert Murdoch after he completes his rumored plans to buy Guild Wars' developer.

(Via Julian Dibbel.)