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Virtual Market Matters: Cyberland Steady; Is Ginko in Trouble?
By Dow Jonas Since the demise of the well-liked independent Linden currency exchange Gaming Open Market, Second Life’s land and content markets as well as its fledgling financial institutions have taken a beating. With the month-long ramp-up time of the LindEx, Linden Lab’s own currency exchange, which still has a hefty fee and slow manual [...]
Full StoryDoomsday Book is Finished!!!
As uber-journalist Mark Wallace has reported on his blog, the Doomsday Book (Otherwise known as “Only a Game: Online Worlds and the Virtual Journalist who Knew too Much”) is complete — coming in at a hefty 118,819 words spread over 17 chapters, it is quite possibly the longest book on MMOs that ever has or [...]
Full StoryOpus 1000: The 20 Greatest Herald Stories?
I meant to post a top 10 list at the time of our 2nd Birthday, but it seems that post 1000 gives an excuse that is just as good. I found it impossible to narrow the list to 10, even getting down to 20 was difficult. I’d be interested in what others think should be [...]
Full StoryBook Review: Synthetic Worlds
Author Ted Castronova demonstrates approximate size of words used in his new book (photo by Cory Linden) Run, don’t walk, to Amazon.com (is that even possible?) and order your copy of Edward Castronova’s Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games today. For anyone interested in deeper thinking about MMOs than just whether the [...]
Full Story1/3 Linden Employees are FIC, Cory Confirms
by Dow Jonas In a shocking revelation published on the prestigious virtual world studies blog Terra Nova, Cory Ondrejka, Vice President of Product Development for Linden Lab, acknowledged that by his rough count, as many as one third of Linden Lab’s estimated 60 employees came from the ranks of existing residents of the growing online [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Elesha Aleixandre
The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Elesha Aleixandre! Elesha claims to be the shy type, but at the same time, seems to enjoy criticizing the Herald, asking why we don’t simply post the same girl week after week, since they all “look the same”. Our thanks to Heart [...]
Full StoryTimes Uber-Reporter at it Again! Wallace Dishes on the Virtual Vacation that is SL
Forget about Plamegate, Harriet Miers, the war, and the next hurricane. The big news in today’s New York Times is clearly the story by Mark Wallace, discussing virtual travel, but with a big emphasis on Second Life. But the big dish in here is the news that former Post Six Girl Diamond Hope – the [...]
Full StoryCmdrTaco takes on Blizzard.
There is an interesting story in slashdot, by one CmdrTaco, who was forced to change his WoW name by the game owner Blizzard Entertainment. Why? Because ‘Cmdr’ is a title he hasn’t earned. Never mind that “Commander” isn’t even a title you can earn in the game and never mind that CmdrTaco is this guys [...]
Full StoryGoldfish Scandal Spreads. Rome Bans “Cruel” Goldfish Bowls
The scandal, first reported by the Herald in which Linden employee Cory Linden was seen to be mistreating an innocent goldfish in the Herald Suite has turned out to have international repercussions, with the city of Rome passing a law to prevent innocent fish getting Coried, as reported by CNN. We will stay on top [...]
Full StoryW-Hats Bring Down the Grid. We Told You and Told You and Told You, While Lindens Bent Over and Said “Fuck Me Harder Bad Boys!”
Photo from Websnake Nightshade forum post It hardly comes as a surprise – it comes more as a prediction fulfilled – that members of the W-Hats are responsible bringing down the entire grid by use of a griefing tool that spawned massive numbers of balls with racist and other images on them. Of course what [...]
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