Pure West Documentaries and director Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza have made a documentary about Gamers and Virtual Worlds (YouTube trailed embedded above), called Second Skin. The film, which will be premiering on March 7th at SXSW 2008, gives you a glimpse into the (virtual) worlds of computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). If you are interested in finding out more about the future of games and game-like interfaces, check out this presentation by James Lundy of the IT research firm Gartner. It is an hour long and a little on the dry side, but you can click through the slides on the left to get a quick grasp of his predictions for what will happen in this space.

Joakim Baage