Archive for the year 2004
Nerfed Again!: New Social Interactions Introduced in TC
Scammers, trial account sellers, and bot makers say “Thank You Maxis!”Mafias Laugh.Stratics Board Ho’s inexplicably think this will improve the game. The new social interactions have been introduced in Test Center, and after they are debugged they will move to the rest of TSO. At a time when TSO players have been crying out for [...]
Full StoryEA Pulls Plug on Earth and Beyond!
In a shocking announcement that does not bode well for other EA run MMORPGs, EA yesterday announced that it was going to pull the plug on its Earth and Beyond MMORPG. Additional information on the move can be found here. What makes the annoucement shocking is that EA essentially expressed the same committment to E&B [...]
Full StoryAlphaville Elections Break into the InfoSphere
The Elections for President of the Alphaville Government, which have been covered here in the Alphaville Herald and picked up by Wired News has now been slashdotted and put under the scope of the eggheads at Terra Nova. Can another Daily Show episode be far behind? To top it all off, British newspaper The Independent [...]
Full StoryRichardson wins primary
Ashley Richardson and her running mate Loxee have won the primary election for President of The Alphaville Government, and will face Mr-President in an April 10 general election. Final election tally was 223 votes for Richardson/Loxee and 138 votes for their opponents Seth Galloway and Marcus Forlourne. Commentators have suggested that Galloway was still a [...]
Full StoryWired News Picks up Alphaville Elections
As election fever grips Alphaville, the race for the Presidency of the Alphaville Government has caught the attention of greater cyberspace and the story has been picked up by Wired News. The wider interest in the election is not surprising, given the questions that are raised. For example, to what extent is an election like [...]
Full StoryPat the Rat: Beyond the Valley of the Webcams
Just the other day I invited Uri to join me in a webcam session, and to my great surprise he was utterly unfamiliar with this essential piece of technology. Where has this boy been? Well despite missing out on viewing the splendor of my unsurpassed androgynous hottiness, he’s also been missing out on The Thing [...]
Full StoryMeet the Candidates #5: Seth Galloway for President
Seth Galloway and his running mate Marcus Forlourne will meet Ashley Richardson and Loxee in the second round of primary elections on this Saturday, March 13. We understand that the election will again take place on the Alphaville Government web site ? anyone with an avatar in alphaville may vote. There are also plans to [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Newbie #3: the bleakness of crowds
by Montserrat Tovar sometimes i wonder why i am writing this. i say this because it seems like there is not much to say about sims: the play of simming becomes a predictable sequence: eat, sleep, skill, bathroom. sometimes you shop for something to wear and there is nothing interesting to buy. smeared throughout this [...]
Full StoryBing Gordon on MMORPG Growth Prospects
Judging from EA’s lack of support for TSO, one might get the impression that EA has given up on MMORPGs. However in a recent talk at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Vegas, EA’s Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon has argued that multiplayer games (customizable like the sims) will be key to winning over future generations of [...]
Full StoryInterview with Mick, from Online Game Bucks
In The Alphaville Herald we have met some small currency dealers and some fairly large ones (six figures), but by comparison Online Game Bucks is just huge. Having started exclusively as Simolean dealers, they now sell currency in nine games, and they currently have 32 employees. By some outside estimates their annual sales revenues are [...]
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