This afternoon at the Worlds in Motion Summit at GDC, GoPets.com CEO Erik Bethke gave a talk concerning the cross-over of traditional MMORPGs and Virtual Worlds.

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Early this afternoon during Erik Bethke's discussion of the cross-over between Virtual Worlds and Massively multiplayer games, he hit on a fantastic idea that I'd love to see explored. What if you could incentivize people to do things that were good for them by giving them goal structures?

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The organizers of the online worlds-focused Worlds In Motion Summit about online worlds have announced additional speakers participating in the upcoming event.

Nexon's Min Kim, Millions of Us' Reuben Steiger, Rmbr's Gabe Zichermann and GoPets' Erik Bethke will be joining the event...

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Red Herring announced that GoPets Ltd. has been selected as one of the top 200 finalists for the Red Herring 100 Global Award.

The Top 100 Global Award Winners will be announced on December 3rd at the Red Herring Global 2007 Awards Ceremony in Seattle, WA.

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GoPets Ltd., the Social Gaming community of pets, people and games, today announced the widespread availability of some of casual gaming's most popular titles to the inhabitants of the GoPets virtual world. Bejeweled(R), Peggle(R), Diner Dash(TM) and ThwartPoker(TM) are a few of the offerings that the GoPets community can play individually or compete against each other in multiplayer tournaments for fun and prizes.

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"We're a hybrid between a social networking service, an online games portal, and a virtual pet game," said Bethke. "We have all the features that a Facebook or a Myspace might have, but on top of that we're really the best virtual pet simulation on the market, because our pets are actually alive, responsive, mobile, and full of their own initiatives."

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John Blakely (VP of Sony Online Entertainment), Mark Jacobs (VP EA, Studio GM EA Mythic), Raph Koster (President Areae), and Erik Bethke (CEO GoPets) duked it out under moderator Matt Firor's supervision.

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GoPets is a Social Network and virtual world, for virtual pets, kinda like Neopets, but done right.

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Whether they’re having another day at the office or enjoying downtime at home, members of the Windows Live™ Messenger network are just a click away from exploring a new virtual world as Microsoft® Casual Games partners with GoPets Ltd. to launch GoPets on Windows Live Messenger. Inhabited by pets that owners create and customize, the virtual GoPets world on Windows Live Messenger offers environments to explore, casual games to play, groups to join and countless ways to express individuality.

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Giving users of its popular Windows Messenger software another way to socialize and play games, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new partnership offering access to what the company dubs a “global dog park” for the 21st century.

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