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What's an upstart company to do in a world dominated by deep-pocketed publishers and corporate titans? Sue them, of course! Walker Digital, the brainchild of Priceline.com founder Jay Walker, made headlines by suing Facebook late last year and has now completed a legal double-play by filing a patent infringement suit against Zynga and Activision-Blizzard.

The alleged misconduct hinges on a "database driven online distributed tournament system" that Walker Digital claims has been infringed upon for games ranging from Mafia Wars, Wolfenstein, and Call of Duty to Blizzard's behemoth World of Warcraft MMORPG. TechCrunch has all the details, including an embed of the original complaint documents.

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The question is, however, what? According to TechCrunch, former online exam prep site Grockit has recently raised $8 million in funding, bringing the total funding amount up to $10.7 million. Calling itself an MMOLG, or massively multiplayer online learning game, Grockit purports to bring users together to learn from each other. But what exactly does that mean?

Considering its origins as an exam prep company, we could guess that people will connect with one another to discuss specific tests, maybe with sample questions. There might be collaborative tools that allow users to show each other their thinking processes. At the very least, there ought to be animations where avatars will be able to pass each other notes while taking the test. Whatever's being planned, it's apparently worth $10.7 million to somebody.

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Duncan Riley from TechCrunch recently had a little time to speak with Chris Collins from Linden Lab, where Mr. Collins holds the intriguing title "Technical Assistant to the CEO". I'm not entirely clear on what exactly that position entails, but more substantially, he's also responsible for the LindeX, the currency exchange service in Second Life.

Mr. Riley took this opportunity to pose some strong questions to Mr. Collins, which got some pretty tepid and by-the-book answers. Unfortunately, this is typical of LL, which usually sticks to saying things like 'we're working on it', and 'it's not easy'. Well, sure, this is a given. If it were easy, not only would everyone be doing it, but it probably wouldn't be worth doing. But when you're given a chance to give some definitive answers to questions a lot of people are asking, it behooves you to provide something more. Otherwise, why do an interview?

LL is already way out there in terms of being ahead of its time, challenging frontiers, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to let the people who truly care about SL in on a few things, O Lindens? Chances are we'd be a lot more understanding and cut you all a lot more slack when things go wrong, as they so frequently do. Remember: your residents are a passionate crowd, and we only scream so loud because we love SL so much. Give us the truth; we can handle it.

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