All the world’s a game (Image: Jonathan Worth)
Disobedient computers, frightened gold farmers and money gone seriously ethereal. Jessica Griggs takes a trip to the complex frontier world of technology activist Cory Doctorow as his novel For the Win hits the shelves
Many people will have never heard about the “gold farming” of your novel. What is it?
Gold farming describes a real-world activity: it’s all the things people, mostly in poor countries, do to amass things of worth in the online gaming world. These range from amassing gold to collecting rare, expensive items like weapons or ingredients for a…
