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Elon Musk surpasses Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world
His net worth is now more than $185 billion after Tesla shares skyrocketed.
MMO market predicted to swell to $8 billion
No matter how many different games you play, follow, or even care about, the fate of the bigger MMO industry affects them all. Every game, from World of Warcraft to Fantasy Earth Zero, is playing in the same sandbox. But for our favorite genre, it looks like the size of that sandbox is only trending upward. Gamasutra reported recently on a new study that predicts the global MMORPG market will reach a total of $8 billion in worth by the end of 2010, a significant increase from the $5 billion in 2009. So what's spurring the increase? According to the study, the growth in the Western market has been slow but steady, while the Eastern market has been making great strides, led by companies such as Nexon and NCsoft. The study also predicts that the traditional subscription-based revenue model is losing steam as an aggregate, citing it as one of the causes behind the slower growth in the Western side of the industry. Free-to-play isn't everyone's cup of tea, but considering what it seems to be doing to the economic side of our hobby, it's certainly not going anywhere soon.
Forbes Fictional 15: Princess Peach at the bottom
Since when did Peach divorce Mario? Since when did Mario actually do something about the sexual tension between the two (other than in your disgusting desktop wallpaper of the two "getting down")? Regardless, Forbes has made up some wacky stuff regarding the princess of Mushroom Kingdom, ranking her at the bottom of its list of the richest fictional folks.With a net worth of $1.3 billion, we're wondering where Forbes came up with the conversion rate on coins. Considering they're naturally created from thin air and by the very blocks of earth that make up that fine kingdom, we would think the conversion to our real currency would be low. So, we can understand how her worth would be on the lower side, but did they look into real estate value also? Come on, her castle alone has to be worth a ton.
Steve Jobs gets upgrade: now features 20 billion dollars
Looks like that $1 salary has finally started to pay off for Stevie J.; either he's actually immortal and has been working since before the Earth was fused together in the solar forges of the heavens, or all those backdated stock options and Apple perks really came through. Either way, according to Barron's Mr. iStuff made a big jump up from his previous estimated net worth from between 3-6 billion, and is now hovering somewhere around the 20 billion mark -- counting his estimated influence on Apple's market cap. While only Steve knows how much he's really worth, we'd like to invite him to take us out to dinner... any time Steve, seriously, we're available. And we won't even call you Mr. iStuff in person -- promise.
