Archive for the year 2007
Interview with PalmVegas Honcho Azno Simons
Sim owner uses off-limits casino to promote web gambling site -lures noobies with innovative automated SL cybersex classroom by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Azno Simons on duty keeping US Citizens out of the PalmVegas Casino Hoping to explore the motivations for an SL casino owner who sent out high profile press releases to media [...]
Full StoryOrange County Choppers Builds Intel A Bike
by Onder Skall — courtesy of Second Life Games What does Intel need a bike for? Alright, I get it – it’s an illustration of the “raw power” of their new quad-core processing… whatevers. If they’re really interested in bringing this message of hardcore super-powerful computing awesomeness, though, why in the world would they want [...]
Full StoryManoa ARG Launches In Second Life
by Onder Skall — courtesy of Second Life Games Following up on a tip left by Second Life Games reader Spysect (aka Eddie Hagoromo) a new Alternate Reality Game has been discovered here in Second Life. The website Discover Manoa! details a failed colonization attempt and a mysterious disaster. From the website: The board has [...]
Full StoryUma Troell – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editrix’s note: Uma Troell’s hard work has paid off in a big way - as my super friend Marilyn Murphy - the visionary, photographer, and publisher of Players - SL’s in-world erotica magazine - will tell you. After we put the evening edition of the Herald to bed, the entire Herald staff is heading over [...]
Full StoryOops! There Goes the Pr0n too…and the Lindens Observe the Holidays
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs OK, so your favourite casino and dance-pad house had to close down over the Feds bustin’ in. Alright, so that ageplay club you once sampled has had to close because of Chadrick Linden carding them. So your teleporter isn’t working. And geez, with the grid messed up again, [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Holiday Drama – As Usual?
by Inigo Chamerberlin As if it’s not bad enough that LL has to keep ‘updating’ or ‘maintaining’ SL on Wednesdays, thus guaranteeing that the consequent chaos continues over the weekend – because LL insists on running San Francisco office hours only, with apparently no cover outside those hours except a couple of unfortunate Grid Monkeys [...]
Full StorySimulating A Gambling Crackdown
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Thursday Robin Linden stimulated metaverse simulated casino owners to come up with an acceptable euphemism for simulated gambling today with the announcement that the Lab will no longer “accept any classified ads, place listings, or event listings that appear to relate to simulated casino activity”. A few Second Life [...]
Full StoryScandal! Prim Babies Abandoned by Blingtard Moms
Mrs. President Chomsky Calls for Better Mommy Bureau Longtime Herald readers will recall Mrs. President Chomsky from her crusades against pet culling back in The Sims Online. She continues to be an active force online, having founded a new civic organization: Concerned Understanding Mothers Striving To Achieve Improved Net Neighborhoods. Its mission? Bring some shred [...]
Full StoryLindens Name New Sim after African Goddess of Lag
“she slows down the day and night, and everything around here happens in a time outside of time” Special to the Herald by Economic Mip As I was cruising the new continent, I had the misfortune of running across a sim named “Mbokomu” which certainly brought back memories. According to several African tribes, Mbokomu was [...]
Full StoryFBI Investigates Metaverse Casinos
G-men to consider punishing players? by Onder Skall Reuters reports that the FBI have been snooping around Second Life’s casinos and debating what laws are being broken here. After all, playing unregulated Poker for money is illegal – which of course means that those of you who’ve been playing Poker all this time have been [...]
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