Sony Online Entertainment

Sony Online Entertainment makes an unprecedented step by developing a game for Facebook social networking website with more games to come in the near future.

Sony Online Entertainment announced that it has launched its first Facebook game, PoxNora, a free-to-play strategy game that is also available on the PC. According to the announcement, SOE is planning "additional games for the Facebook platform based on both existing franchises and new intellectual property."

 Virtual economies set up in videogames as players trade items are being used as case studies to track and model real-world economies.

As more people join massively multiplayer online (MMO) videogame worlds like Activision Blizzard's "World of Warcraft," NCsoft's "Aion" and Atari's"Champions Online," real money is being used to purchase virtual items through micro-transactions.
As a result, game worlds are creating virtual economies.