Archive for April, 2007

SL City of Lost Angels Goes Open Source

Fight freely – community combat system combat system to be released in May by Onder Skall, Gaming in SL desk I’ve been billing the City of Lost Angels for awhile now as the “queen of SL RPGs”. It’s among the oldest, has the most unbelievably hardcore players, and has been tested as having the fastest [...]

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Sin Under Florida Sun! Sheep Meet Stroker: Sex-Toy Services for Second Life?

Herald Correspondent Pat the Rat infiltrated the recent corporate retreat of metaverse services providers

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Open Letter to Linden Lab

Metaverse residents ask LL to fix the game by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk In an attempt to entice game maker Linden Lab into fixing problems with Second Life, an open letter asking that long term problems with the virtual world be fixed before more new features are added has been signed by over 600 [...]

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Supine SLLA Spawns SLDF, SLDM

SLLA goes tits up, spawns new groups to fight the powers that be“one av, one vote”…except alts by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Sunday morning visits to the Herald offices can be rough – there is always the possibility that Walker or Uri have been “working late” on a “special project” and have decided to [...]

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The Tringo Kid

by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate They called her The Tringo KidIf she had money, then that’s all she didShould they interrupt her gameShe’d send them home lameBe they human, furry or squid She wore her gun low on the hipA cigarette hung off from her lipHer finger’d be itchingHer eye’d be twitchingAnd her drink, slowly [...]

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Taylor Barnes – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editrix’s note: Today, Taylor Barnes takes the time to talk about a cause close to her heart - and Marilyn Murphy’s photography may make our readers' hearts beat a bit faster as well. My friend Marilyn is the virtual visionary, publisher, and photographer for Players - SL’s in-world erotica magazine. This has to be one [...]

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Griefer’s Delight – Live Help Discontinued

“Pyramid of Death” SpamTex, SpamLM flood crashes clients LL support for paying customers “has gone in the toilet” by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Wednesday’s demise of Live Help left most residents without a way to summon instant assistance from their metaverse service provider – Linden Lab. The Lab’s removal of live resident support has [...]

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Second Life Economic Statistics Analyzed

by Curious Rousselot, metaverse numerologist As many of us are no doubt aware; Linden Lab publishes statistics about Second Life. Conveniently they also make the historical data available in Excell and OpenOffice, and Google Docs format. This gives us here at the Herald a chance to see how the economy of Second Life is doing [...]

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Marathon Battle at The Woofer

AN repulses attack – Herald reporter wounded by Omega Groshomme, war correspondent The Alliance Navy was attacked on Wednsday morning 1:00am SLT by members of several opposing factions. Members of Titan industries rolled into “The Woofer”, the Alliance Navy sim, using small arms fire and phantom rounds engaging in a small fire fight from the [...]

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Nissan Retools

The Orignal Nissan Build has Become a Famous SL Marketing Flub. Is the New Project Any Better? Readers may recall our criticism of the Nissan build last October. It was our view that the build failed to take advantage of the social nature of online worlds and also failed to show any sort of imagination [...]

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