[AFGNCAAP]

An online game with ghosts and bards instead of orcs and wizards, complete with battles and political intrigue. An edutainment product about life and works of William Shakespeare. And an academic tool to conduct social sciences experiments. Arden: The World of Shakespeare is "little more than a concept" at the moment, so a thousand things can go wrong, but I really, really want them to pull it off.

Here is the official site (with a link to the press release), and for a CNET's interview with Edward Castronova, the brain behind the project, go here.

[undeaf]

You clearly haven't been forced to read that stuff in acient english year after year.

[Spiwak]

That's pretty much an amazing idea. I hope it's a game I'd actually like to play.