Virtual Second Life spawns real game spinoff...

In the virtual world game called Second Life, a strange thing has just happened... someone designed a game within a game and it's now being licensed outside the virtual world... Tringo is hitting Game Boys soon....

But things get weirder yet. This month, the rest of the world will be able to find out just how addictive Tringo can be -- because the game is migrating outside of Second Life and joining the real world. Sean Ryan, head of the gaming company Donnerwood Media, found out about Tringo last year and loved it. ("I thought, this is really compelling. It's hard to make games that are different -- this one's not a clone," he told me.) So he signed a deal to license the game as a Game Boy Advance cartridge, which hit stores this month.