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Pet Pull Frenzy! An interview with Becca from Pet Addicts
By Ian A Rare Pet craze has broken out once again. Earlier yesterday afternoon; it was announced that “Andrew” of Andrew?s Pet Heaven in Calvins Creek found a Pink Poodle in a pet pull. Now in all cities a Rare Pet Search is taking place! The other rares include a Turkish terrier, a robotic cat, [...]
Full StoryEAsucks.com gets to the bottom of EA’s tech support problems
By The Phantom I you think that uri is tough on EA, you should check out EAsucks.com. Just to whet your appetite, here is a little piece that I think finally explains to us what is going on in tech support (and customer support) over at EA. http://www.easucks.com/images/joke/8.jpg
Full StoryPost Cards from Second Life
A lot of AVH contributors have moved on to other MMORPGs in the last six months. We’ve had squirrel go to FFXI, Lady Juliana, Mikal, and a number of SWG-ers and Mafiosi go to SWG, a slew of people have gone to There (including Stella Dives *sigh*), some to soliolotron and some to Second Life. [...]
Full StoryAJ Down Clone Identified
In news that has only just come to light, albeit via a highly reliable source, we are now able to identify the individual that was running the Scam House with a clone of AJ Down in Jolly Pines. It was none other than Janette, Alphaville’s “most infamous” sim. According to chat logs in the posession [...]
Full StoryAVG Press Secretary Resigns
By Pat the Rat In a shocking new development in the soap opera that “The Alphaville Government” has become, AVG Press Secretary Ian has resigned his postion, citing a lack of challenge, and issues with Angelique Fontaine, who seems to have become the Yoko Ono of the AVG. Apparently Mr-Pres and Angelique have spent too [...]
Full StoryNew YIM offers avatars
Since this is my week for posting old news, I thought I would add that the new version of YIM, now in Beta, introduces avatars. The avatar options are still pretty limited, but it raises interesting longer term questions about whether chatty MMORPGs like TSO are needed if we can have our own YIM chatrooms [...]
Full StoryTechTV Questions ESRB Rating for Alphaville
This story aired a couple weeks ago, but I just now located the online version of the segment. In it, TechTV questions the appropriateness of the ESRB rating systems for MMORPGs, and issue which has been addressed by the AVH on several occassions. The TechTV opener: Hot Topic: Big Trouble in AlphavilleThe Mafia’s running the [...]
Full StoryMonkeybear charges cj johnson with scamming
In a recent story we discussed allegations by Lead Architect that cj johnson in Alphaville had cloned him. Now we have the story of Monkeybear that cj promised to transfer several rares for him, took posession of the rares, and never delivered in the new city. Here is Monkeybear’s story.
Full StoryPierce Entertainment Announces Auditions for Waiting For Godot
Sorry I neglected to post this press release earlier — too much happening these days. Anyway the skinny is this: Pierce Entertainment, LTD has announced auditions for Waiting for Godot. I would have called it Waiting for MOMI.
Full StoryOh joy, and now for the email spoofers
Everyone in the Alphaville community should be on alert that someone has been spoofing email accounts in an attempt to transmit viruses/worms. Spoofing is a fairly simple hacking technique, wherein one sends an email that appears to be coming from another source. In recent days, the email addresses of both Mr-President and Peter Ludlow (ludlow@umich.edu) [...]
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