Archive for November, 2004

Interview with a Vampire: Mir talks to Gweem Engel

Yesterday we republished Miravoir Psaltry?s article from Players on Second Life vampires. Today we give you her raw interview with vampire Gweem Engel.

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The Vampires of Second Life

By Miravoir Psaltry (reprinted from Players, volume 11) In this story Miravoir, our intrepid chronicler of Second Life dancers, escorts, and furries meets some of the local vampires, and gets a great story, but also gets tapped! I warned her, I warned her?

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Bedazzling Gravity Space Station

I gather that the Gravity Space Station is just a place to chill while the Bedazzled group works on their development of Unreal Tournament (or a version of it) inside SL (and with Francis Chung’s Seburo compact exploder no less), but it is noteworthy for the texturing and all. While I was visiting Phillip Linden [...]

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One Song’s Poker Table

Infamous land baron, strip club/escort service operator, and virtual arsonist One Song (aka Mr. Fairplay) has finished his long awaited poker table — and the result is one of the most complexly scripted single objects in Second Life. We have seen it in operation at The Edge, and at the Red River Valley Saloon. Following [...]

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One Song’s Poker Table

Infamous land baron, strip club/escort service operator, and virtual arsonist One Song (aka Mr. Fairplay) has finished his long awaited poker table — and the result is one of the most complexly scripted single objects in Second Life. We have seen it in operation at The Edge, and at the Red River Valley Saloon. Following [...]

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Interview with Phil Murdock of Empire Vendors

Snow and Phil In this interview Miravoir Psaltry talks to Phil Murdock, who with Snow Hare heads up the Empire Vendors Group. They turned sex toys and sex animations into an empire! Their story follows.

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Drama Comes to Simcast!

Well, as much as the Herald luvs drama, a nice fat scoop of it would have would have made it into these pages days ago if I hadn’t been all wrapped up in my rl gf who is visiting from some undisclosed central eurpoean company (hint, she’s an infamous game dev groupie!). Anyway… …no sooner [...]

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In the Belly of the Beast

CMU Researcher Randy Pausch Academic Randy Pausch has provided a rare look into the workings of EA Corporation in a recent paper entitled “An Academic’s Field Guide to Electronic Arts“. The paper is based on Pausch’s residency at EA and is intended as a sympathetic portrait — designed specificially to help academic institutions to build [...]

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Jeff Brown: We aren’t the Only Sweat Shop!

EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Just a few days ago, when we blogged the heartbreaking post from EA Spouse, we predicted that Jeff Brown would weigh in with some suitably unhelpful comments. And now he has! While the post from EA spouse has now received some 3000 comments (including many stories that [...]

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Jeff Brown: We aren’t the Only Sweat Shop!

EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Just a few days ago, when we blogged the heartbreaking post from EA Spouse, we predicted that Jeff Brown would weigh in with some suitably unhelpful comments. And now he has! While the post from EA spouse has now received some 3000 comments (including many stories that [...]

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