Archive for the year 2006
Sowing the Seed
Though its beta test has only just started, the new MMO Seed is already getting the usual breathless attention from virtual world fansites and other online communities. The latest Seed news comes from online gaming and music radio station Split Infinity Radio, which is advertising an upcoming interview with Runestone CEO Lars Kroll, the man [...]
Full Story419 Scam Rocks EVE Online
EVE Online, the virtual world where scams and double-dealing are all part of the starscape, is now the target of the latest manifestation of the "419 scams" that originated in Nigerian some years ago. 419 scammers commonly claim they’ve got a whole sackload of money tied up in a Nigerian bank, but since the money [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Harvest Morgan
We at the Herald are very pleased to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Harvest Morgan! Harvest is a very experienced gamer and veteran of online worlds/communities, ranging from her experience as a head Game Master on Lineage 2 to The Sims Online, from There to SecondLife. Special thanks to Daphne Molinari of Daphne’s [...]
Full StorySexy Spright? Fugly Fright? Get a life?
Current #1 is Guild Wars vixen Queen Christie. An Elementalist, of course. We are all familiar with the Hot or Not site, in which users with too much time on their hands rate the pictures of meat-space hotties and or notties. I believe there is also a “rate my avatar” site in which Prokofy Neva [...]
Full StoryIt Was Bound to Happen: SL Escort Rating Service Opens
I tried in vain to come up with a picture to illustrate this one, but failed utterly. We all know about the virtual escort services in second life, but perhaps some of you wondered: is this honey’s cyber skills *really* worth 1,000 Lindens? I mean, maybe she is only worth 800! Into this information gap [...]
Full Story…Let No Man Put Asunder…
by Pat the Rat Linden watchers inform Pat the Rat that naughty Kremlinden Lab has intervened to dissolve the partnership of Torley nee Torgeson Linden and Jady Lily. As of last report, they are no longer listed as partners, victims of what has become known as “reverse minister’s action” on the part of the Kremlindens. [...]
Full StoryA Putsch in Neualtenburg?
Ulrika’s Office, as she left it. This news is a bit old, but well worth pondering. Ulrika Zugzwang, the driving force behind Second Life’s virtual socialist micro-state, Neualtenburg, has left the project and Second Life. Ulrika claims personal reaons, but coming on the heels of a revolt in the Party that spilled into the forums, [...]
Full StoryEA Cuts 5% of Workforce
Or so says this article on Forbes.com. I was unclear on whether this move is driven by the weak games sales in the current shift to new consoles, or, as the EA Spokesperson *seems* to be suggesting — outsourcing that would have happened anyway. Oddly, the EA position seems to be this: we aren’t firing [...]
Full StoryInterview with TrannyPet Barmy
In this interview we speak with TrannyPet Barmy, the gifted scripter and alleged griefer who made the Hand of Satan push gun and the DBomber notecard spamming weapon in addition to an advertising broadcasting system during his first incarnation on Second Life. After being permabanned for questionable reasons, he returned as AsterixLe Gall – better [...]
Full StoryCybering on the Teen Grid? Lindens Adopt Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy.
By Mercury Metropolitan News has been spreading quickly around the Teen Grid that "smutty" IMs are acceptable if both parties are in consent. Apparently, a Linden has been informing players that these "smutty" conversations are hard to police, and are only moderated accordingly if one of the parties reports the other. This also brings up [...]
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