Archive for July, 2004
Editorial: Ashley?s Stroke of Genius
While there is much gnashing of teeth about this over on The Alphaville Gazette, the Second Life Herald can only but praise Ashley Richardson for enlisting Eve and Mr. President Bradley (along with anisette) as judges in the finals of her recent beauty contest. Although both Eve (formerly many of the Merrill sisters, Voleur, and [...]
Full StoryLead Architect begins liquidating holdings on TSO, plans operations in other MMORPGs
In this interview we talk to Lead Architect, a big player on TSO as seller of simoleans and rares, and (as his name suggests) home design. But the buzz on TSO is that he is liquidating his holdings of simoleans. What are Lead?s plans? It looks like he is going to stake out territory as [...]
Full StoryJason Sim to appear on Oprah Tonight!
Oprah Winfrey of Alphaville has informed us that her guest tonight at 10 PM Eastern will be Jason Sim, who has recently reignited the controversy over the Alphaville Presidential Elections with his claims that he had first-hand knowledge of election-fixing practices that led to Mr. President?s defeat of Ashley Richardson. Given the incendiary nature of [...]
Full StoryAre Social MMORPGs Doomed to Fail?
Well, are they? The answer given by Randy Farmer in this very interesting paper appears to be …well…maybe. Not good news. This is coming from someone with development and gaming background in The Palace, TSO, Second Life, and Habitat. Among his comments about Second Life: “I loved it when I was unemployed.” There is also [...]
Full StoryWired News Investigates EA’s Ineptitude with MMOs
Daniel Terdiman, who broke the story of the Alphaville Elections into the infosphere not long ago has recently written a story on the string of failures that EA is racking up with online games. Casualties now include Motor City Online, Earth and Beyond, Ultima X, a scrubbed plan for a Harry Potter Game, and of [...]
Full StoryBombshell! JC Soprano retires from TSO, but confesses ALL on the way out.
In a resignation letter released to the Second Life Herald, Mafia Boss JC Soprano has announced his resignation from TSO (speculating that EA will shut it down after racking up some Christmas sales) and has begun to form a guild in Star Wars Galaxies. Of particular interest will be the purported full confession which JC [...]
Full Storyinterview with david pierce
- by montserrat tovar llewlyn david pierce, alphaville’s answer to lord richard attenborough, took some time out of his hectic schedule to discuss recent changes to the diamond theatre. he also shared some of his ideas about the future of the arts in alphaville.
Full StoryHe?s baaaack! Twitty: Satan?s Servant in TSO
In this interview we talk to the infamous Twitty, baddest of TSO?s bad boys, back after a brief stay in jail for drug running (or so he says, and who are we to disagree?). Twitty fills us in on Texas jails, bootcamp, his past wars agains Christians in TSO (including a church demo job) and [...]
Full StoryAlphaville Election Scandal Won’t go Away
The Alphaville Gazette, which is edited by SLH contributor and former AVG Press Secretary Ian is running a story to the effect that Jason Sim had posted an election-rigging confession in his user profile (since removed). Supposedly there was a Perl script that allowed one person to vote for Mr. President 264 time. Did this [...]
Full StoryUri meets The Thinkers
A couple weeks ago Hamlet Linden organized a meeting between me and The Thinkers — a group of 100+ Second Lifers that like to cogitate/discourse/ruminate about deep things etc. It was a fun time, but it does raise questions about exactly how far one can get with discussions in an online setting (at least one [...]
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