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Maxis Suspends additional accounts related to Alphaville Herald

In this Rapidly Breaking story, it appears that EA/Maxis is attempting to pursue its vendetta against the Alphaville Herald by banning additional sims from the game. Now the account associated with Doctor Legion has either been suspended or terminated. Doctor Legion has received no official statement of suspension from maxis, much less a justification of [...]

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EA/Maxis Permanently terminates Urizenus Account

EA has permanently terminated my Urizenus account, 11 hours after issuing a 72 hour warning/suspension. In the termination letter (below) EA falsely claims that I have “continue to list alphvilleherald.com” in my profiles. In fact I immediately removed all references to the Alphaville Herald from my user bio. One presumes that this action is in [...]

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Maxis Harassment of Alphaville Herald Continues: Urizenus Suspended

In This breaking News, The Publisher of the Alphaville Herald, Urizenus, has been suspended for 72 hours for providing a link to The Alphaville Herald in his property description. Specifically, the offending statement in his property description was this: “Our newspaper/blog is online at alphavilleherald.com” (see letter from EA Player Relations below)This is the latest [...]

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Evangeline: Interview with a Child cyber-Prostitute in TSO

In the following interview, notorious sim Evangeline goes back to her early days in Alphaville, and claims to have worked as a cyber-prostitute and then to have been a madam for various cyber-brothels under the guise of her sims Roxy, Tori, Fanki and then Dorian Merrill, claiming that at times she made the equivalent of [...]

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MAXIS is deleting in game references to Alphaville Herald

According to the sim Doctor Legion, Maxis has deleted references to The Alphaville Herald in her bio. Doctor Legion reports that the contents of her bio were simply “Read the Alphaville Herald, alphavilleherald.com”. This message has been replaced by Maxis with the message “REMOVED BY MAXIS”. No explanation has been given to Doctor Legion. Tomorrow [...]

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Maxis Targetting Whistle-blowers?

As reported in the previous post, Maxis finally revisited my IM messaging with a sim that claimed to have beaten his 8 yr old sister and hospitalized her . After repeated complaints to EA, Maxis *finally* notified law enforcement authorities. But within hours of being notified of this positive development, I received the following notice [...]

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ELECTRONIC ARTS HAS RESPONDED TO MY LATEST PLEA

As sad as I was to have to report the “indifference” EA had displayed after frequent attempts to contact them on a matter involving possible harm to a child encountered on TSO that I felt very strongly about (See Below “EA’s INDIFFERENCE),” I am delighted to have finally received a reply from the them. The [...]

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Of Interest & Rebuttal

Fristly, Lawmeme’s James Grimmalman has posted an Excellent discussion of the State of Play Confereance and what it’s ramifications are and may be. It is officially required reading for the lot of you. Here is a direct link to said article. For those of you interested below you will find a rebuttal to recent comments [...]

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International SimCon tix go on Sale

Tickets for the International Sim Con have gone on sale. Click “continue reading” to see the press release.

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INTERVIEW WITH FANS: DIRECTOR OF THE ALPHAVILLE GOVERNMENT CIA

It was brought to my attention that there is an entity in Alphaville representing itself as the Alphaville Government. The director of the CIA for that entity expressed a desire to be interviewed after reading the series we’ve been running on notorious factions and personas within Alphaville. The following is the interview that took place. [...]

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