Archive for April, 2006
Has Plastic Duck Migrated Back to SL?
Camp Darfur trashed — by Plastic Duck? Sources tell the Herald that the notorious griefer and W-Hat associate Plastic Duck (the Herald’s third-place Avatar of the Year for 2005) is back. This time, if it’s him, he’s trashed the re-creation of a Sudanese refugee camp [< -- SL link] that’s been built as a consciousness-raising [...]
Full StoryMarsellus Wallace on the Air
G’Day World, an Australian podcast hosted by Cameron Reilly of the Podcast Network, has a hilarious and revealing interview up with Second Life mafia boss (and occasional Herald correspondent) Marsellus Wallace, in which Mars goes into a surprising amount of detail about just how his SL mafia works (and how it used to work when [...]
Full StoryLL Changes Town Hall Format
Well, it seems King Philip wasn’t so excited about talking to the SecondCast crew after all. It now seems residents will get to speak directly to LL’s CEO himself, calling in to Johnny Ming, who will then screen the calls and patch them through just as a radio host would. Johnny will hopefully have someone [...]
Full StoryWoW guild griefs online memorial service for player that dies in real life
This is interesting. As Shoutwire is reporting, an ingame funeral for a popular player was griefed by a guild in World of Warcraft — griefing event consisting of the attacking guild killing most of the funeral party. Of particular interest to me is the discussion that follows in the wake of this event. A lot [...]
Full StoryTown Hall Meetings Take to the Airwaves
SL’s Town Hall meetings are getting an overhaul. When King Philip himself logs in tomorrow to field resident questions at 7:00pm SLT, it won’t be in the usual lag-fraught, unreadable chat format, but in an audio feed streamed all over the Grid. SL resident Johnny Ming’s SecondCast was recently contracted to produce the audio Town [...]
Full StorySL Classifieds Hit the Web — Kinda
As announced yesterday in this forum posting, the Classifieds section of the SL in-world interface is now available on the Web. There’s not a lot of functionality to it at this point — no search, no ability to purchase items. All it allows you to do is browse a sequential list of the various categories, [...]
Full StoryRealGamers Feel Long Arm of the Ohio Law
Following hot on the heels of the RealFrogger technology revealed at the Herald suite at South by Southwest, a group of teenage girls are being investigated in Ravenna, Ohio, after recreating a real-life version of Super Mario Bros. by placing 17 gold boxes with question marks spray-painted on them in various locations around the town. [...]
Full StoryBlumfield Residents Get Their Doodle On
by Jeannedellalune Prudhomme, Special to the Herald Patch Lamington at his Doodle House in SL’s Blumfield sim BLUMFIELD — Sometimes a scribble is just a scribble. Other times, it’s a doodle and a way of life. So it is for Patch Lamington, preeminent SL doodler and popular founder of the Blumfield Residents Association (BRA). Patch, [...]
Full StoryBlogosphere Gets New Herald Affiliate
A new blog hits the blogosphere this month, run by the uber-reporter currently known as Mark Wallace (but also known as Herald editor Walker Spaight). Check out 3pointD.com for news of all things 3D Web-related, including stories from virtual worlds. The blog is kindly sponsored by the Electric Sheep virtual world services company, and will [...]
Full StoryCornfields Not Enough for Roma Victor
The devs over at Red Bedlam, makers of the new MMO Roma Victor have come up with a novel new way to punish griefers in their virtual world: Rather than suspend their accounts or banish them to a virtual cornfield for a couple of days, they simply string them up on a cross. [Pic after [...]
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