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WTF: Rare Islands Purchased in TSO’s “hard core” Dragon’s Cove

Both islands are purchased, the one of the right is just empty at the moment. Update: Because the Dragon’s Cove Gazette (not www.dragonscovegazette.com , but dragonscove.tblog.com) has taken photos from this story without attribution, we would like to remind people of the License for use of thes materials. The Alphaville/Second Life Herald would like it [...]

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Herr Doktor Professor Ludlow on German Public Radio

Well, our very own nutty professor and resident media ho, Doc Pete, has resurfaced in the infosphere — this time on German Public Radio. Since our German ist sehr schlect we don’t really know what he’s talking about (hell, we don’t know what he’s talking about when he speaks English), but we think it has [...]

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Tigger escapes the 11 city hood for greener pastures

Tigger! [sorry for the delay in reporting this -- earlier draft got nuked. The Good Father's fault I am sure. --Uri] By: Father Callahan According to Sims Stratics sub-Minister of Thought Control, Leah, and this notice on the SWG boards, Ex Senior Online Community Representative for TSO, Tigger is now working on the ‘Star Wars [...]

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Dragon’s Cove Opens with a Zap

Houses *zapping* It’s here, it’s finally here! After almost 1 month of waiting, delays, and other EA “natural” diasters, Dragon’s Cove is live. When the city opened (and still even happening while this story is being printed) there were “zaps” on the map of new houses being created. However, what comes with this [over] population, [...]

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The Game within the Game, part 2: Virtual Barn Raising

As reported earlier, I recently bought a private sim and we are currently knitting it together with the simcast sim so we will have two sims dedicated to a medieval themed PvP Dungeons and Dragons type game with D&D-type combat elements, as well as crafting and quest elements. One of the really great things about [...]

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Uri’s secret cyber logs, part 3: Bloodninja enters Second Life

The legendary chronicler of cyber, Bloodninja, has left his chat rooms to experience the fully immersive love fest that is Second Life. Following is his first SL chat log to be released on the internet. Who *is* this guy, anyway? HAAAARRRRR!

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Cyber-escort as power gamer: Interview with Daphne Molinari

One thing that we?ve learned from observing social MMORPGs like TSO, There, and Second Life, is that power gaming is alive and well in these games, albeit in a different form than in EQ and SWG. In this interview we talk to an impressive example of this phenomenon ? Mistress Daphne Molinari. She tells us [...]

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Revenge of the Stratics Mods

Still master of his domain: A Stratics mod fondles his sensual red Swingline stapler while contemplating the next SLH writer to ban from his domain. Well, in the 5 days that have passed since the Second Life Herald published The Story on how links to links to the Second Life Herald have been prohibited on [...]

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SL Political Correctness Standards Updated

Well, we?ve got new Community Standards (aka Political Correctness Standards). First thing I noticed is that there are some new rules which appear to be inspired by the Second Jessie War and the lag bombing of Jessie by One Song and the lag bombing and sim crashing of the Baku sim by the TechSols and [...]

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Second Skin, part 1: Interview with Chip Midnight

by Miravoir Psaltry There is such an amalgamation of creative talent in SL… everywhere you look you can see the work of a myriad of geniuses. We have Coco Chanel, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Enzo echoed here, and we have modern day Michelangelos and Renoirs in the form of the SL skin artists… those who [...]

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