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People Who Live In Glass Houses…..
One of the many 512m houses built by Purplestar Anubis By Cienna Samiam Greetings from sunny Kymeera! Today, I am enjoying the scenery around the world and I happened to get an urge to look at houses. I found the multi-island getaway and showroom of Purplestar Anbuis (Kymeera 214, 173). Wow. Now I freely admit, [...]
Full StoryVersion 1.6. All About teh Pron?
In an interesting thread just opened by Charlotte Gillespie — Second Life Forums – The real reason they’re bringing in video — the case is made that 1.6 improves nothing but adds video, and suggests that the reason Linden Lab was eager to get 1.6 out is because the inevitable in-game porn theaters are guaranteed [...]
Full StoryWelcome Area Nuked! Lindens Blame Teh Herald.
by Urizenus Sklar and Gina Fatale So there I was, living the life of leisure that befits a media mogul of my stature, sipping Cristal and keeping track of my investments when I received a story from Herald reporter Gina Fatale. “Why do you trouble me with these trifles?,” I asked, and then Gina explained [...]
Full StoryA Newb In Linden Land: Thoughts of a new citizen
By Cienna Samiam Ever since accidentally stumbling onto Meridan59 some years ago, I have been both fan and critic of online gaming. I am not sure how you found Second Life, but I found it after leaving yet another MMO in disgust; tired of chasing another carrot on another stick for a monthly fee. I [...]
Full StoryThe Cory Details
Looks like today is gonna be hype Cory day. There are notes from Cory’s talk at the Serious Games Summit, up on the Wonderland blog, and some of the statistics are interesting (if they are widely known, well, I didn’t know them): Examples: Last month: 20,000 people used SL. 50,000distinct items were sold. There were [...]
Full StoryGame Developer Rants burn houses, babies and bridges
If you hadn’t caught them earlier, Cory Ondrejka’s (aka Cory Linden’s) Terra Nova forum threads about the now-infamous Game Developers Rants, were Slashdotted yesterday. The main two Terra Nova threads are called ‘Burning Down the House’ and ‘Burn baby burn’. Some of the things that games developers came out with were beauties like these: “Iwata-san [...]
Full StoryReview: Sexy Skyboxes – Second Life’s Mile High Clubs
Veteran builder and gamer Pirate Cotton sets sail on a quest for sexy treasures in this review of five skyboxes. Casting his one good remaining eye over a bevvy of designs and textures and, despite his wooden-leg, Pirate manages to road-test a variety of sexballs. With him is the First Mate, Neal Stewart, slinging comments [...]
Full StoryProk’s Candid Conversations with the Core: Cristiano Midnight, Part One
Feted, fetid or fretted? Which are you? In the second installment of the occasional series that takes you, the everyday Herald reader, on a tour of the inner core with the inimitable Prokofy Neva, Prok shines the light on Cristiano Midnight — probing him on core issues of the Grid’s economy, the launch of Snapzilla [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Seraph Opel
We at the Herald are happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Seraph Opel after this past week without a Post Six Grrrl in order to not distract you all from the series of informative articles posted recently. Seraph is a highly-respected and frequent model for both Madison Blanc’s Top Model agency and [...]
Full StoryNow and Then
For those interested in the history of the Second Life landmass we know as the Grid, Olympia Rebus flags a fascinating project by Essence Lumin, in which Essence has posted a snapshot of each and every sim on the Grid as they appeared a year ago, in March 2004. Why Olympia doesn’t include a link [...]
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