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The Birth, Death, Release and Rebirth of the Torley Threnody Melody
By Neal Stewart Torley Torgeson Jnr, daughter of Torley Torgeson Snr, alt of Torley Wong, recently announced the release of 2.7GB and 16 hours of 230 complete, high-quality MP3 tracks – entirely conceived, galumphed and outgrabed by the uffish Torster. They are released openly and freely into the Creative Commons and the LSD-inspired bat-country of [...]
Full StoryThrough the Summer Door
(Not Second Life) The second in an occasional series from RL sci-fi scribe Budka Groshomme, who has been sharing with the Herald his first impressions of Second Life. Becoming a resident of Second Life appears quite unlike entereing the traditional science-fictional cyberspace, a virtual world made real from nothing more than bits and bytes, where [...]
Full StoryGame Review: “Settlers of Second Life: Catan it colonize SL gaming?”
Pirate Cotton reviews the new Second Life strategy board-game ‘Settlers of Second Life’. Pirate is an opinionated SL blogger (http://www.tinypirate.com) with an interest in gaming and Second Life culture. He brings his considerable experience as co-builder of Dark Life – Second Life’s first MMORPG (recently featured front-page at secondlife.com) – and creator of the ‘Game [...]
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AS SEEN IN THE ATTACK ON AHERN!!! The TSLAS Nuke fires a homing missile that tracks anybody within the mouselook screen. Once the missile impacts on an object or avatar it will release ultra lag with massive explosions followed by push bullets that will push the avatar way way out of the sim. Only 3,000 [...]
Full StoryThis is Where the Magic Happens!
Picture of demonic creature haunting Linden Lab (pic stolen from Pirate Cotton’s site) Sorry we didn’t link to this sooner, but Pirate Cotton has some great pics from inside Linden Lab accessible from his website. They were taken when he was out there for the Game Dev Con. Go check them out! (great pics from [...]
Full StoryLindens Join W-Hats, Risk Self-Deletion
In a striking development, two employees of Linden Lab recently joined SL’s much-discussed W-Hat group, indicating that the roving band of refugees from Something Awful‘s forums may not, after all, be as dastardly as some have made out.
Full StoryAdvertisement: Second Life Boxing!
SecondLIFE Boxing is back, and it is better than ever! The only WWE-like boxing show in SL has resumed holding events every Friday (Friday Night Xtreme) and Saturday (Saturday Night Showdown) at 2pm Secondlife time. This friday (18th March) at 2pm Secondlife time, SecondLIFE Boxing will be showing a special Pay Per View event called [...]
Full StoryVirtual Journalists are the Mack Daddies of SXSW
These days Austin Texas is awash in indie film types, alternative musicians, and 1337 website designers — all here for the South By Southwest (SXSW) Con. But in this veritable ocean of media ho’s, who are the ho’s the the media wants a piece of? Well sure, old standby’s like Eli jah Wood and Al [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: “Bow, wanker” – Old Games Journalism Raises Its Fist
Fernando Martinez: “A real man needs more than one thing in life, you know what I’m saying here? The heart and the loins both on fire… groaning and straining and making hot dirty passionate encounters with the secretaries, while the wife she sleeps at home…” By Neal Stewart I’m clearly ‘a bit of a wanker’. [...]
Full StoryOff the Grid with Walker Spaight: A Bow to the New Games Journalism
The New Games Journalism takes a swipe at the ResistanceImage stolen from LucasArts Of course it’s the pot that calls the virtual kettle black. Or should I say, calls it “nigger”?
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