Years ago I used to play Paranoia, an excellent role-playing game, set in the not so distant future, fan sites (1, 2). An insane computer runs the lifes of a city, obsessed with commies everywhere, secret societies and exploding rocket boots. Very good fun to play and enjoyable world to just read about. It was 1950s american paranoia set in a 1980s context, with a huge amount of in jokes.
Well Paranoia is about to be released again in an updated version, Paranoia XP. Revised for this century and currently in development, there is a weblog for game development, (rss feed)hosted by Greg Costikyan, who runs an interesting weblog on Games, Design, Art and Culture. He describes how the weblog will be run to determine the eventual style of the game, imagine open source, but with a pay for outcome, more like commercial beta testing.
Looks like it will be great fun.
