Archive for the year 2005
Skin Review: Mistress Midnight
by Chipsen Queso Despite what Matthias announced last week about taking a bit of a break from the five skin designers who were interviewed last year by the Herald, I decided to go ahead and review this skin by Mistress Midnight. As a clothier, Mistress is a legend. Her texture work is superb, which has [...]
Full StorySL Land Heist! XLS Operatives wipe out Space Monkey Corporation
XLS Officers Sweet, Cyanide, and Xaphon Just a few days ago we reported a tale of betrayal on EVE online in which a corporation was infiltrated and its property (valued at about 16K US) was stolen. Just yesterday a similar heist went down in Second Life, when the Space Monkeys had 8K square meters of [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl: Cindy Claveau
The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Cindy Claveau! Cindy is a person with very varied tastes in everything from music to literature, and has been “immersed” (in her own words) in the so-called “Metaverse” for many years. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine [...]
Full StoryLindens Seize Land in Internal GIGAS Dipute
photo by Hiro Pendragon by Prokofy Neva Browsers of www.secondlife.com today were startled to see a lone, furry protester bearing a sign in the Dore Welcome Area populated by newbies, greeters, and Lindens. Coming in world, a reporter found Hank Ramos, an SL resident since November 2003, sporting the title “protester” and carrying a sign, [...]
Full StoryEVE EXTRA: $16.5k Heist/Assassination Breaks Ubiqua Seraph Corp
Read all about it! After a months-long infiltration operation, the Eve Online corporation Guiding Hand Social Club managed to work its agents high into the ranks of the Ubiqua Seraph corp (corps are Eve’s version of guilds), from whence they pulled off what is being called the biggest heist/coup/assassination in Eve history, making away with [...]
Full StorySL Overtakes TSO in “Subscribers”
As the Second Life homepage map reveals, the population of SL now exceeds 40K, which, according to the most recent figures, means it has probably passed the ever plunging TSO. Of course people don’t actually *pay* for their monthly accounts on SL, so it is not clear what this statistic really means — the only [...]
Full StoryMust Read! SL, Escapism, Disneyland, Rubber
Ha, this essay By David Thomas in The Escapist is a must read for every denizen of Second Life. It’s the best writing on SL I’ve ever seen (outside of the Herald, of course). Sample passage: “Man, I never paid for any of my dicks. Girls buy them for me.” In Disneyland and on the [...]
Full StorySheeeeit! 1.8 billion for online game development in China.
Terra Nova and several other sources are reporting on a story in the Shanghi Youth Daily the Chinese government is about to invest $1.8 billion in on-line game development. I’m not sure what kinds of virtual worlds those efforts will yield, but if the result are some robust online worlds, and we turn Anshe loose [...]
Full StoryGTA San Andreas Banned Down Under. Is SL Next?
The following is by former Herald reporter Neal Stewart and was pilfered from his blog: “New York, NY – July 29, 2005 – Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) said today that Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), the Australian entity responsible for rating films and video games, has revoked the classification of [...]
Full StoryIs the MMORPG Currency Crash of ’05 Upon Us?
Image source: WOW Gold Price Research According to new (?) virtual economy site Game Money Price Research, the virtual sky may just be falling. GMPR has an alarming set of charts up tracking the dive of almost all major MMORPG currencies against the U.S. dollar in the first half of this year. While GMPR’s methodology [...]
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