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Bob Busch: Triads pwn Dragon’s Cove
Since Liz Montana moved to SL, became Gina Fatale, and went to work for One Song, life has gotten better for the Triad Mafia. Not only do they claim to pwn Dragon’s Cove on their web site, but Bob Busch has recently published a dissertation on the virtual Mafia life in Mick Lite’s new forums. [...]
Full StoryStreaming the Prez Debate in SL — sort of
Hamlet Linden has a story in New World Notes about tonight’s presidential debate that is catching air time in the blogosphere. Some folks are gonna stream the debate into the game via NPR, hang out, yak about it, and in Hamlet’s case blog it (yes another Linden sucked into the blogspace vortex). I guess that’s [...]
Full StoryPaging Kale: Cory Linden floats proposal for new SL permissions system
Cory Linden has joined the army of lemmings marching into the bottomless pit that is a personal blog, and while he predicts that the we scribes at the Herald will mourn this development, the fact of the matter is that we now accept it as inevitable fact of life — like flatulence, fornication, and death. [...]
Full StoryOne Song Wins Boxingmania! But not without Controversy…
By Gina Fatale The results from Friday’s Boxingmania at SLB in the One Song vs Tank Levy match are in, and as I predicted, the winner was One Song. The night started off with alot of trash talking between the two rivals and jumping in on the One-Song-hater band wagon was none other than one [...]
Full StoryOne Song Wins Boxingmania! But not without Controversy?
By Gina Fatale The results from Friday?s Boxingmania at SLB in the One Song vs Tank Levy match are in, and as I predicted, the winner was One Song. The night started off with alot of trash talking between the two rivals and jumping in on the One-Song-hater band wagon was none other than one [...]
Full StoryBig Mick Permanently Banned from Stratics!
Well, the tale of Stratics keeps writing itself, and just when u think the plot couldn’t get any thicker, well, it gets thicker! Just days after opening his own chat board as an alternative to Stratics, Mick Lite has been banned from Stratics for having a link to his own board in his bio. You [...]
Full StoryOctober Census: Alphaville is officially dead
Following up on our February and May Census, here are the results for Alphaville in October (taken Oct. 10) and it isn’t pretty. Following are the logged hours for the top 100 properties in every catgory rounded to the nearest hour. Category
Full StorySooner or later, everyone has their own blog
Well this is the worst news imaginable for Second Lifers. Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden, your CEO and spiritual leader) has started his own blog. I mean its not that he doesn’t have interesting ideas, but… Dude! Blogs are a time sink! Run away!!!! Oh that, and the premise of the first entry strikes me [...]
Full StoryMore about sex and Sims II
The other day we noted that the advertising campaign for The Sims II seems to be predicated on four things: sex, sex, sex, and sex. Since then, Tama Leaver has picked up on this theme on his Ponderance blog, and added some very important observations, not the least of which is that it appears the [...]
Full Story30 Million down the toilet
Forbes.com has a very interesting article on the success of City of Heros, but along the way it drops this little nugget: “Cryptic thereby defies a troubling trend: Internet games, first ballyhooed as the next big thing, have struggled. Electronic Arts dropped perhaps $30 million (EA won’t confirm it) building, marketing and supporting Sims Online, [...]
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