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An online gamer just purchased a virtual space station for $100,000 and plans to convert it into a nightclub. His dream is to change the world (real and virtual) of entertainment forever.

Jon Jacobs, aka Neverdie, won the space station, currently being built within the online role-playing game Project Entropia, in an auction.

He wants to call it Club Neverdie and sees it as the perfect vehicle to bridge reality and virtual reality.

Gamers in Entropia regularly buy and sell virtual items using real cash.

Last year, a gamer bought an island for $26,500 (£13,700).

“I’m already in talks with some of the worlds biggest DJs about spinning live sets inside the nightclub,” he told the BBC News website.

$100,000 … are you kidding me?!

[via The BBC]

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