Archive for March, 2005

The Cory Details

Looks like today is gonna be hype Cory day. There are notes from Cory’s talk at the Serious Games Summit, up on the Wonderland blog, and some of the statistics are interesting (if they are widely known, well, I didn’t know them): Examples: Last month: 20,000 people used SL. 50,000distinct items were sold. There were [...]

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Game Developer Rants burn houses, babies and bridges

If you hadn’t caught them earlier, Cory Ondrejka’s (aka Cory Linden’s) Terra Nova forum threads about the now-infamous Game Developers Rants, were Slashdotted yesterday. The main two Terra Nova threads are called ‘Burning Down the House’ and ‘Burn baby burn’. Some of the things that games developers came out with were beauties like these: “Iwata-san [...]

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Review: Sexy Skyboxes – Second Life’s Mile High Clubs

Veteran builder and gamer Pirate Cotton sets sail on a quest for sexy treasures in this review of five skyboxes. Casting his one good remaining eye over a bevvy of designs and textures and, despite his wooden-leg, Pirate manages to road-test a variety of sexballs. With him is the First Mate, Neal Stewart, slinging comments [...]

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Prok’s Candid Conversations with the Core: Cristiano Midnight, Part One

Feted, fetid or fretted? Which are you? In the second installment of the occasional series that takes you, the everyday Herald reader, on a tour of the inner core with the inimitable Prokofy Neva, Prok shines the light on Cristiano Midnight — probing him on core issues of the Grid’s economy, the launch of Snapzilla [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Seraph Opel

We at the Herald are happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Seraph Opel after this past week without a Post Six Grrrl in order to not distract you all from the series of informative articles posted recently. Seraph is a highly-respected and frequent model for both Madison Blanc’s Top Model agency and [...]

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Now and Then

For those interested in the history of the Second Life landmass we know as the Grid, Olympia Rebus flags a fascinating project by Essence Lumin, in which Essence has posted a snapshot of each and every sim on the Grid as they appeared a year ago, in March 2004. Why Olympia doesn’t include a link [...]

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The Birth, Death, Release and Rebirth of the Torley Threnody Melody

By Neal Stewart Torley Torgeson Jnr, daughter of Torley Torgeson Snr, alt of Torley Wong, recently announced the release of 2.7GB and 16 hours of 230 complete, high-quality MP3 tracks – entirely conceived, galumphed and outgrabed by the uffish Torster. They are released openly and freely into the Creative Commons and the LSD-inspired bat-country of [...]

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Through the Summer Door

(Not Second Life) The second in an occasional series from RL sci-fi scribe Budka Groshomme, who has been sharing with the Herald his first impressions of Second Life. Becoming a resident of Second Life appears quite unlike entereing the traditional science-fictional cyberspace, a virtual world made real from nothing more than bits and bytes, where [...]

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Game Review: “Settlers of Second Life: Catan it colonize SL gaming?”

Pirate Cotton reviews the new Second Life strategy board-game ‘Settlers of Second Life’. Pirate is an opinionated SL blogger (http://www.tinypirate.com) with an interest in gaming and Second Life culture. He brings his considerable experience as co-builder of Dark Life – Second Life’s first MMORPG (recently featured front-page at secondlife.com) – and creator of the ‘Game [...]

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Advertisement: TSLAS Nuclear Warhead

AS SEEN IN THE ATTACK ON AHERN!!! The TSLAS Nuke fires a homing missile that tracks anybody within the mouselook screen. Once the missile impacts on an object or avatar it will release ultra lag with massive explosions followed by push bullets that will push the avatar way way out of the sim. Only 3,000 [...]

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