The Beeb shall inherit the (virtual) Earth

I usually read all these feeds with my morning coffee, but with the snow today.....

The BBC is to launch a virtual world, operated using the same Larian engine as used by Ketnetkick, the game for dutch speaking kids in Belgium, run by VTR. Its aimed at the CBBC audience (Tweenies to Twentysomethings.....

In terms of complexity Ketnetkick falls somewhere between Habbo Hotel and Second Life, but according to the BBC it would "not have the financial aspects of other online worlds such as Second Life."

So, no flogging virtual furniture as per Habbo, or virtually anything else as per Second Life (and definitely no flogging Avatars one assumes)

That should have the people trying to run competing commercial services grumbling anyway!.

Lets see if it will tear my lot off the Sword n Sorcery genre.....

(Poststuff...Be interesting if they would open it up like Second Life has done, and I found this blog by Ben Metcalfe about it)