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Japanese Magazine Devoted To Virtual Worlds Launches

-Here's a mag for us virtual world fans -- if you can read Japanese, that is. Japanese media company Kadokawa X already has a series of "lifestyle" publications, like Tokyo Walker, Wedding Walker and Gourmet Walker, and now they've launched a new print publication, titled Virtual World Walker, that recently hit newsstands. According to Rebecca Walker of CScout Japan, who discovered the publication, the debut issue features profiles of trendy online hangouts and dating tips for Second Life. There's also a companion website, which Walker says features a user-contributed fashion board of stylish avatars, a board where users can show off their movies and pics from online worlds, and a social network.

The website currently has tabs for There, Second Life, HiPiHi and Meet-Me, and an advertisement on the site seems to indicate that the content is also available for mobile. Neat!

[Via CScout Japan]

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