Friends Hangout is a new web-based virtual world in open Beta that’s been gaining a lot of attention from fans of the genre. As a special offer to Social Times readers, you can click this link to get 2000 extra virtual tokens to spend, when you create a free account. Developed by a small Tampa startup, it comes with FaceBook and Bebo integration, and enables players to create and share a one million square meter virtual world space with up to 10 of your friends (30 if you become a paying customer.) Unlike most other web-based virtual worlds, such as Habbo or Zynga’s YoVille, Friends Hangout boasts realistic 3D graphics running in the Unity 3D Web Player plugin, one of the best, perhaps last hopes to revive consumer interest in 3D virtual worlds.
Why “last”?
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