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Sex Please. It’s for the Cause of JOURNALISM
MMorgy.com, displaying their tradition of fully immersive cyber-journalism is asking for Second Life residents to cyber with them so that they can write an informed story about the experience. Crimey guys, if you can’t find a date in SL you have got freaking problems!
Full StorySlustler in the Newz
Wired News is running a story on SL virtual nudie magazine/book Slustler. The article makes it out to be something new, but of course it comes in a long SL tradition that includes Players and Erogenous Zone, but this one is certainly the biggest — coming in at 100 pages. It is also in the [...]
Full StoryWooot! 100K Dormant Alts
In another milestone in the history of meaningless statistics, Second Life has now passed 100,000 “residents” — i.e. accounts (mostly free) that have been created and may or may not be in use. The last time we reported such a milestone — 40K “residents” — there were actually *more* people in the game. Obviously, the [...]
Full StoryIncriminating Photos Leaked from Herald Birthday Party
“Banned” Gang Leader One Song Schmoozes with Pathfinder Linden at Herald Debauche. The Herald Staff did their best to keep it all under wraps, but pictures of the virtual debauche that was the 2nd Birthday Party of the Herald have been leaked into the blogosphere by New Games Journalism legend Always_Black. Shit. Well, there is [...]
Full StoryNaughty America: the Game. OK, now who needs SL?
Yes, its true, there is now an online game that has latched onto the essence of Second Life and built their platform and marketed it with one thing in mind: Cyber. Called Naughty America: the Game, it seems more upfront about the role of cyber than either TSO or SL, but seems tamer than Sociolotron [...]
Full StorySex and Games. Why Didn’t We Think of That? Oh Wait…
The International Game Developers Association finally has a Special Interest Group dedicted to Sex in/and/of Games, and a 1337 new blog called Sex and Games to cover it (and what we want to know is, what took them so long). There is also a discussion forum here. Great stuff, but honestly, they would be *lost* [...]
Full StoryRoleplay or Landgrab? As the Elf Council Debates, only the Orcs Know for Sure!!!
Are these guys fugly or what? In the hall of mirrors that is Second Life, what does it mean when a band of plug ugly Orcs invite the peaceful elven folk to a game of combat roleplay? Is it all in fun, or does something more sinister lurk beneath the surface? Elven Queen Forcythia, seeing [...]
Full StoryCBC Confirms Linden Attempts to Discredit Plastic Duck in RL
Wow, kudos to Tony Walsh (aka Rat Boy aka Zero Grace) for contacting the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and confirming that the document we republished in the Herald was in fact an excerpt from an actual letter send by Linden Lab to the CBC. According to Tony’s contacts at the CBC, the letter was sent by [...]
Full StoryDid Lindens Attempt to Prevent Plastic Duck from Talking to the CBC?
Several days ago we posted an announcement that a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio station in Toronto was looking for SL residents to interview about the game. They were looking to find residents without going through the Linden Lab filter. In the comment thread to that announcement, infamous SL griefer and Toronto area resident, Plastic Duck [...]
Full StoryBlogosphere Debates Philip’s Turn to the FBI
As first reported by Dow Jonas in this newspaper, a few days ago Philip Linden announced that he was turning to the FBI for help with griefers that were involved in global attacks on the grid – effectively taking Second Life offline. Since then the blogosphere has been all a gaggle over this move (assuming [...]
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