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The Furni Whores of Habbo Hotel
I must live under a rock. So many scandals and incidents of elemental weirdness manage to just pass me by. Yet, now and then I get a chance to play catch-up. Last night it was in an underground dive bar known as the 8-Ball, and a kindly grad student told me about the “furni whores” [...]
Full StoryEA to Pay $680 Mil for Jamdat Mobile
EA Corporate Headquarters Last new years I predicted that EA would shell out a billion for another game company. I’m saying that their purchase of Jamdat Mobile is close enough to count as a score. Notice I also predicted a griefer attack that took out the SL grid. I’m just wiping the floor with Cory [...]
Full StoryAnnouncement: CBC Radio looking for Toronto area SLers
Thanks to Zero Grace for passing along this message: The pilot episode of a new radio show airing on CBC Radio intends onfeaturing one or more Second Life residents in their daily onlineactivities. Lindsay Michael from the show is looking to get in tough withToronto, Canada residents who spend a lot of time in Second [...]
Full StoryLINDEN ADMITS TO INSIDER SNOW SIM DEAL ON TEEN GRID
By Dow Jonas In a fascinating glimpse into the life of teen-agers in Second Life and the internal pressures with which Lindens cope in their San Francisco office, a land scandal has emerged on the Teen Grid (TG) involving confirmed charges that Blue Linden gave a teen land buyer an unfair insiders’ heads-up about a [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl dreams Anubis
The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, dreams Anubis! Dreams is a long-time SecondLife resident who is very short-winded and who loves building and making textures in PhotoShop! Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six Grrrl.
Full StoryMajor Chinese Gold Farming Operations Exposed in Tomorrow’s NY Times
There is a fantastic article by David Barboza in tomorrow’s (Friday) New York Times, but it is already up on the site of the International Herald Tribune if you want a peek. It is only the second case that I know of, where the reporter actually went and visited gold farming operations. I talked to [...]
Full StoryUnleash Your Inner Hordeling
If you’ve grown tired of the burdens that accompany membership in that most august group of Second Life residents, the Feted Inner Core, now there’s a solution. Just VW-hop on over to World of Warcraft and join the Feted Inner Horde, a new guild on WoW’s Lightninghoof server composed entirely of Second Life residents, complete [...]
Full StoryZero Grace to take SXSW on Sex-in-Games Gutter Crawl: Panel of Degenerates to include Herald Editorial Director
In yet another sign of the end times and/or the ascendency of what those in the moment call The Herald Aesthetic, the Interactive Component of the world famous South by Southwest conference in Austin Texas will feature a panel on the secret sex lives of video games. According to Zero Grace, aka Tony Walsh, on [...]
Full StoryEXTRA! EXTRA! BARONS LOSE BIG WITH TELEHUB REMOVALS; ANSHE STARTS CASH OUT
All that’s left of a once busy SL Telehub by Dow Jonas In a move that is likely to cause profound economic and social changes to Second Life, Linden Lab announced last week in the official Linden forums that it will be enabling the platform for point-to-point teleporting (p2p) and removing telehubs, the main portals [...]
Full StoryEVE Extra: Deep-Space Outpost Goes Public in $8,100 Deal
It’s no mistake that EVE Online‘s player organizations are known as corporations. Though Second Life has seen a number of start-ups that have required resident stakeholding and investment, a recent IPO by EVE corp Interstellar Starbase Syndicate has set a new mark for virtual-world business dealings, having raised 36 billion in InterStellar Kredits, the equivalent [...]
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