Archive for March, 2005
This is Where the Magic Happens!
Picture of demonic creature haunting Linden Lab (pic stolen from Pirate Cotton’s site) Sorry we didn’t link to this sooner, but Pirate Cotton has some great pics from inside Linden Lab accessible from his website. They were taken when he was out there for the Game Dev Con. Go check them out! (great pics from [...]
Full StoryLindens Join W-Hats, Risk Self-Deletion
In a striking development, two employees of Linden Lab recently joined SL’s much-discussed W-Hat group, indicating that the roving band of refugees from Something Awful‘s forums may not, after all, be as dastardly as some have made out.
Full StoryAdvertisement: Second Life Boxing!
SecondLIFE Boxing is back, and it is better than ever! The only WWE-like boxing show in SL has resumed holding events every Friday (Friday Night Xtreme) and Saturday (Saturday Night Showdown) at 2pm Secondlife time. This friday (18th March) at 2pm Secondlife time, SecondLIFE Boxing will be showing a special Pay Per View event called [...]
Full StoryVirtual Journalists are the Mack Daddies of SXSW
These days Austin Texas is awash in indie film types, alternative musicians, and 1337 website designers — all here for the South By Southwest (SXSW) Con. But in this veritable ocean of media ho’s, who are the ho’s the the media wants a piece of? Well sure, old standby’s like Eli jah Wood and Al [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: “Bow, wanker” – Old Games Journalism Raises Its Fist
Fernando Martinez: “A real man needs more than one thing in life, you know what I’m saying here? The heart and the loins both on fire… groaning and straining and making hot dirty passionate encounters with the secretaries, while the wife she sleeps at home…” By Neal Stewart I’m clearly ‘a bit of a wanker’. [...]
Full StoryOff the Grid with Walker Spaight: A Bow to the New Games Journalism
The New Games Journalism takes a swipe at the ResistanceImage stolen from LucasArts Of course it’s the pot that calls the virtual kettle black. Or should I say, calls it “nigger”?
Full StoryThe Day the Toons Escaped the Grid
By Sheriff Oswald Picklebrains and Pearl Fuzzyswirl Toontown, the MMO by Disney Corporation, seems transgressive on the surface. Players create avatars that have the basic form of 1930’s animated animals and attack evil corporate “cogs” with gag weapons like cream pies, seltzer bottles, and falling pianos. The cogs – bossbots, lawbots, sellbots, and cashbots – [...]
Full StoryOpening the Cupboard Door
The Herald is proud to introduce to its readers our newest freelance correspondent, Budka Groshomme, who here brings his experience as a RL writer of science fiction to bear on the not-quite-fictional world of Second Life. As a long-time reader and writer of fantastic fiction, I thought myself well prepared to step into the cupboard [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Are You “Normal,” or teh Clone?
by Kendra Charlton Every time I see a furry, punk, goth, vampire, elf or feted SL resident, I notice them right away. However, whenever I see a “normal” resident — one who doesn’t obviously belong to any of these cliques — I never take note of their presence.
Full StoryNuptials: Arjan Templar and Casandra Jackson
Arjan Templar wed Casandra Jackson February 14 at10:00AM at their home in Voti. The ceremony wasofficiated by Till Stirling, Maid of Honor was YanneProudfoot and Best Man was Lars Cruyff.
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