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This is a Really Really Bad Idea
Editorial This is a short editorial, because it won’t take me long to make my point, which is very simple. The recent Linden trial balloon to provide up front financial support (in Linden Dollars or whatever) to big projects is just a bad idea. Quite apart from its unfairness to people like the Bedazzled group [...]
Full StoryTartarus Project Raises its Flag
This is one part drama and two parts interesting: Ryan Jade of the Tartarus project has posted a proposal for Linden funding for his project on the SL Forums here. This of course has led to lots of “yays” and not a few “BFD”s, and charges of attention whoring (something we know about here!), but [...]
Full StoryReview: Avatara
Avatara is perhaps the first documentary covering a 3D online environment that is shot entirely in character/in game. The choice of subject is a little known and in some ways “prehistoric” online platform called Digitalspace Traveler, which is a voice-based, 3D graphics environment with floating head avatars and some room to customize the meeting spaces. [...]
Full StoryTime for Open Source Gaming?
A Screen Shot from an Open Source Game under Development at RIT In a new article in Wired News, Daniel Terdiman takes up the possibility that current game development might eventually be replaced by open source wiki style projects. Of course, as evidenced by our State of Play talk, we agree! He talks to Hugh [...]
Full StoryEA to employ 500 in China. Jeff Brown: “it isn’t outsourcing”
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown According to this article in the Mercury News, EA is expanding its operations in China and may hire as many as “500 artists, developers, and programmers by the end of the decade.” In the face of all the recent whining from EA employees and their spouses about [...]
Full StoryEA to employ 500 in China. Jeff Brown: “it isn”t outsourcing”
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown According to this article in the Mercury News, EA is expanding its operations in China and may hire as many as “500 artists, developers, and programmers by the end of the decade.” In the face of all the recent whining from EA employees and their spouses about [...]
Full StorySex Furniture, part 1
Sure in so-called real life everyone knows that beds and couches can be used for sex, and maybe even the kitchen table in a pinch, but the options are limited. In Second Life, however, furniture is all about cyber. We thought it would be useful to take our readers on a tour, beginning in this [...]
Full StoryClub Euphoria Grand Opening
Pat the Rat has been pretty much shirking his/her duties of late, but s/he did manage to drop in on the the grand opening of Club Euphoria earlier this week. Pictures follow.
Full StoryThe Second Coming of Dyerbrook
DB turns in the goateed male avi in an LL Bean barn mucking outfit for the Nubian Princess Look. Things that make you go hmmmmm. When the history of the Alphaville shard of TSO is finally written, Dyerbrook will figure prominently. In the early days s/he nearly hounded Will Wright out of the game — [...]
Full StoryInterview with a Vampire: Mir talks to Gweem Engel
Yesterday we republished Miravoir Psaltry?s article from Players on Second Life vampires. Today we give you her raw interview with vampire Gweem Engel.
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