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GAMING OPEN MARKET leaves TSO, continues in 2L, There, etc.
By Atlantis Several months ago we interviewed Jamie Hale of Gaming Open Market. Since then, GOM has left TSO because of lack of interest. Its business on There and Second Life appears to be growing, however. In this story, our reporter Atlantis checks in on GOM for an update, and for our new readers, an [...]
Full StoryClones!
by Montserrat Tovar, The Phantom, and Los Clones are avatars with names that are very similar to the name of a known well-established avatar. For example a sim with a name like Johnson might be cloned by a sim named Johnson’. Clones are established for two basic purposes on tso. First, sims use them as [...]
Full StoryTSO boycott petition making rounds
This online petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?Qd3d&1) may have gone up a while ago, but it only just came to our attention (thanks to Mr-P for the pointer). It is, in effect, a protest of the $10/month fee for the online game. The reasoning in the petition is more or less nonexistent and the language is barely literate, [...]
Full StoryVan’s Sim_Bitch69 Account Under Control of Mr. President Bradley
Mr. President Bradly has acquired control of Evangeline’s in game accounts and also his YIM account sim_bitch69, and has been using the latter to communicate with many members of the Alphaville community under the guise of Evangeline, and in certain cases to (allegedly) send Trojan horses. Messages from that account are not from Van and [...]
Full StoryPayPal Phishin? in Alphaville
By Atlantis Love phishing? Well let me assure you from a first hand perspective that you won?t like this kind! I had never heard of this latest scamming phenomenon until I was a victim myself! Let me bring you back to the day not so long ago?
Full StoryHacking Epidemic Sweeps Across Alphaville and TSO
by The Phantom Hacking on TSO has been with us from the beginning. Lately, however, the matter has been spinning wildly out of control, with account hacks being reported by money traders, scammers, AVG Government officials and just about anyone who could be expected to have a pile of simoleans. Not surprisingly, EA has been [...]
Full StoryFormer AVG CIA Chief Fans: Hackers Drove me Out of TSO
In this interview Fans explains why he left TSO, and alleges that it was because his account was hacked by Mr. and Mrs. President Bradley and because of continued attempted electronic intrusions by the Bradleys. He claims that he went to EA, which refused to investigate, but that he is now working with the police. [...]
Full StoryMoscow’s Izvestia: TSO is Harming America’s Children
A number of news organizations, ranging from the New York Times to CNN have picked up on the story of the Alphaville Herald and EA’s attempts to silence it for shedding light on the inner life of Alphaville. Recently the Moscow daily newspaper Izvestia jumped into the fray, recounting the story of the termination of [...]
Full Storyvisiting the mind of a fisher: an interview with kendra j
by m. tovar In this interview Montserrat Tovar probes the mind of one of tso’s more effective scammers ? one specializing in the ?house scam.? Why does Kendra J do it? Well, you might be surprised to learn that s/he is on a mission from God?
Full StoryIntroducing the Diamond Memorial Museum
By Ian This Saturday evening I decided to go to the “Diamond Memorial Museum”, which is located in the “SimArts” neighborhood. The owner, Craig Pierce, is brother to, David Pierce, the producer of many successful plays. I was pleasantly greeted at the door, and wanted to take a tour to see what this is all [...]
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