I'm not sure when or from where the mental image crawled into my brain, but I've got a firm impression of what a Chinese gold farming operation looks like. The lighting and decor is that of an ...

It doesn't sound all that terrible in theory, but purchasing gold gained through gold farming can have disastrous consequences on a game's economy. Increasing the amount of gold available on a server ...

One home wireless network, two intersecting worlds of Worlds of Warcraft. Yesterday afternoon, while my son was upstairs leveling up his blood-elf and exulting in his new ostrich mount, I was ...

A new study at Manchester University says the gold farming “industry” is likely worth about $500 million per year, and is growing rapidly despite efforts to curtail the activity. Roughly 400,000 ...

It's hard to overstate the amount of impact Steam has had on what we think of today as PC gaming, and a big element of the shift it's brought about has been tied to its community market - using ...

When Bannon was at Goldman Sachs, he convinced his superiors to invest $60 million in Internet Gaming Entertainment, a marketplace that sold World of Warcraft gold to players in exchange for real ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. What do we know for sure about gold farming? Not nearly enough, according to University of Manchester professor Richard Heeks. In a recently released ...

Gold is one of may resources Donkey Kong Bananza players must gather (and spend) to venture deeper into the core of the planet. At first, you can use Gold to fund getaways and special construction ...

Gold farmers! They're everywhere, right? We get spammed by them, we run into them farming Dire Maul, we put them on ignore. Lazy people with too much disposable income buy gold from them in a show of ...

I designed the most powerful gold farm in singleplayer survival Minecraft history and then built it in my survival world. I then used the gold to get revenge on my enemies! Huge thanks to Zardor for ...

In case you haven’t been keeping an eye on the news, Venezuela is in a rather bad way. Some people from the country are turning to unconventional money-making methods to get by in an extremely ...

Times are very hard in Venezuela. There’s no other way to put it. The cost of food and medicine has skyrocketed under the nation’s runaway inflation. The government seems less interested in solving ...