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Aleks Krotoski from the Guardian UK includes PMOG in her list of Games of the Year for 2008:

Finally released this year, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, is the most interstitial game I've ever played. ... if you do wander down the rabbit hole, there's plenty of content to behold.

We're honored to be in some great company there!

Ian Palmer from Linux.com writes up a feature on GameLayers and our technology choices. GameLayers CTO Duncan Gough speaks to the open source software powering PMOG:

As for return on investment, Gough figures that his company was able to put its resources to better use since it used a free open source software tool rather than an expensive proprietary alternative.

Bonnie Ruberg surveyed GameLayers on our social networking habits for her writeup up Social Networking Terms You Should Know on Forbes.com today.

Blair Henry Frank did a fun writeup about PMOG for MacWorld Magazine, the October 2008 issue:

Portfolio Magazine, the business publication from Conde Nast, has published Lauren Barack’s piece exploring the business potential of PMOG.

Christian Donlan declares:

PMOG's a testament to the way that game mechanics can subtly alter the way you approach everyday life, whether it's in-game items revealing a secret landscape within familiar web-pages, or user-generated missions bringing back the early days of exploration that categorised internet activity before the rise of Google.

From the Eurogamer Hands On Coverage of PMOG.

Mary Jane Irwin has written an article entitled “Gaming the System” on Forbes.com which includes PMOG as an example of motivating people through video games.

PMOG launched Monday 12 May, and received a great range of coverage; Tech Crunch, BoingBoing, GigaOm, LifeHacker, Laughing Squid, Smart Mobs, EuroGamer, Next Generation:

San Francisco - 12 May, 2008 - GameLayers announces that PMOG, the game about being online, opens today for anyone to play. The first web browsing MMO, PMOG brings online social play into Firefox-based web browsers.

So many of us spend hours each day on the web. What do we have to show for our time? PMOG gives players points for surfing with the PMOG Firefox extension. Those points can be used to leave traps or treasure on any web site, for other players to find. Suddenly, surfing the web is a casual multiplayer online game.

The School Library Journal covers PMOG in their May article, “Masters of the Universe,” featuring a school media specialist’s take on PMOG as an educational opportunity. They included a cartoon explanation of the game!

GameLayers is profiled in the May/June 2008 MIT Technology Review Magazine: All the Internet’s a Game; Gamelayers makes a treasure hunt of everyday Web browsing. The article is password protected (user: cypherpunk password: cypherpunk will work for a login).

Mike Schramm gives PMOG a thorough treatment on Massively, a game about multiplayer online games: “First Impressions: PMOG, the passively multiplayer game.”

Aleks Krotoski from the Guardian reviews PMOG:

[PMOG] makes exploring the far corners of the internet more appealing, and gives a personal touch to the faceless web that makes everyday life much more fun.

Read her writeup: "Humdrum surfing just became a lot more fun".

March 2008: Mary Jane Irwin writes for Wired, a digital lifestyle magazine, covering PMOG in the Play section: “A New Type of Game Turns Web Surfing Into All-Out Information Warfare“:

“absolutely frackin’ brilliant” - Jason Calacanis on PMOG.