I just received a message from Gaia online today that asked a strange question: “Hi Lucy, What do Neopets, MapleStory and Habbo all have in common?”

Out of curiosity I logged into my Gaia Online account to see what Kate Pietrelli, an account manager for TriplePoint (Gaia’s PR agency), is typing about and, sure enough, along the top of the page is the option to send an instant message my fellow Gaians…

Just a few days ago, in-game community tool provider, PlayXpert, announced its parntership with Vivox to provide in-game voice communication features to its users. It appears that Vivox’s voice technologies are in great demand in the Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) industry, as leading MMOG publisher Sony Online Entertainment has also chartered Vivox’s technologies for its games.

The two companies announced an agreement during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that will ensure that gamers and guild mates in SOE games are never out of touch in both the…