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From the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco

Property enthusiasts who like the idea of buying a home (even when they're not buying a home) can now play a fantasy real estate game, where they compete to buy pretend houses.'Realius' allows players to visit a range of virtual properties - each complete with a virtual 'view from the balcony' - and guess what they're worth. If they're the closest bidder, the property is theirs, and they can sell on, or acquire others.

The game is "built around real world events" - Sunday is 'open home day', for instance - and there's also a 'social' element, so people can liaise 'neighbours' about valuations. If the popularity of fantasy football is anything to go by, Realius may well inspire the next 'own a pretend empire' fetish. "People have an obsession with their homes," Chuck Teller, Realius's chief executive, said. "We thought: let's let people channel their real estate passion into a fun and social game."