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SoP Time Capsules Opened, and…

NY Law’s Beth Noveck (swoon) interviews some gamedev that clearly needs a bathroom break. At State of Play 2, last October or whenever, a series of interviews were taped with the grand poobahs and pointy heads of gaming. These “video time capsules” were to allow future generations to marvel over the bleeding edge sophistication of [...]

Controversial German Designer Returns From Her 8th Suspension – Interview 2/2

Athel Richelieu’s screen-shot of the now-erased compound, moments before he abuse-reported it. SS logo in foreground. by Neal Stewart In part two of our interview with controversial designer Katja Eisenberg, Katja responds to allegations that she is a Neo-Nazi and connoisseur of racist humour. She explains her true views on Adolf Hitler, George Bush, the [...]

Post Six Grrrl Nim Liu

The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Nim Liu. Nim is a long-time member of Second Life who recalls a time before most had even heard of it, making her not only beautiful but knowledgable of the world that we all play in. The Herald would like to take this [...]

Dark Side Mafia pwned by Bio-satanic Herald Stringers

Herald Stringers Melody Moseley, Renee Marshall, Kyran Nyak, Apollo Case, Sami Suavage and Twitty pwn the DSM In the darkest corners of Jessie, where the toxic sludge oozes through walls and the residents positively glow from their daily dose of radiation, the Herald keeps a stable of stringers that are paid for information with virtual [...]

Nude Romp in SimCast

by Matthias Zander On a recent afternoon, the women of the group known as the “Kao’an Exiles” stripped bare and posed in the three sims that make up the SimCast island group. They began in SimCast, where they were fully-clothed (the picture up above). They then moved to Midgard, where they spent quite a while [...]

Controversial German Designer Returns From Her 8th Suspension – Interview 1/2

Motoring Around the Learning Curve

by Walker Spaight

SL’s Baddest Builder, part 1: Yadni the Junkyard Dawg

In his first life, Yadni Monde is a night clerk in a hotel in a secluded corner of France, but in his Second Life ™ he is the baddest architect on the grid. With an imagination fueled by a massive library of classical and fantasy architecture and copious amounts of ganga, he doesn’t just build [...]

Prok’s Candid Coversations With the Core: Lordfly Digeridoo, Part Two

For those of who you enjoyed SL resident Prokofy Neva’s “journalistic” debut last week, in which SL architect Lordfly Digeridoo kindly submitted himself to questions from the rhapsodist of Ravenglass (and even for those who did not), we are overjoyed to present Part Two, in which our interlocutors address questions of the grid’s economy. No [...]

Furry Builds Biggest Second Life Avatar – Giant Wolf

by Neal Stewart