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Advertisement: TSLAS Nuclear Warhead
AS SEEN IN THE ATTACK ON AHERN!!! The TSLAS Nuke fires a homing missile that tracks anybody within the mouselook screen. Once the missile impacts on an object or avatar it will release ultra lag with massive explosions followed by push bullets that will push the avatar way way out of the sim. Only 3,000 [...]
Full StoryAdvertisement: Second Life Boxing!
SecondLIFE Boxing is back, and it is better than ever! The only WWE-like boxing show in SL has resumed holding events every Friday (Friday Night Xtreme) and Saturday (Saturday Night Showdown) at 2pm Secondlife time. This friday (18th March) at 2pm Secondlife time, SecondLIFE Boxing will be showing a special Pay Per View event called [...]
Full StoryEditorial: Simulating Free Speech In Virtual Lives
“If Peter Ludlow is a journalist,then I’m a railroad tycoon whenever I play Monopoly.”– Jeff Brown, Electronic Arts – Vice President for Corporate Communications Neal Stewart comments on Eric Goldman’s draft paper ‘Speech Showdowns at the Virtual Corral’, where under-age cyber-prostitutes, free-speech, corporate censorship – and our very own Urizenus Sklar – are the topic [...]
Full StoryTringo Star
Congratulations to SL resident Kermitt Quirk, inventor of Tringo, the game that’s swept Second Life over the last several months. After developing the game on his time off, Kermitt found Tringo becoming one of the grid’s most popular pastimes. Now it’s about to hit RL, as Kermitt has cut a licensing deal with SF’s Donnerwood [...]
Full StoryNeualtenburg – SL`s Most Hated Project
“On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a democractic socialist republic.” At her blog, Gwyneth Llewellyn recently looked at some of the same virtual governance issues discussed in Urizenus’ State of Play discussion. The ever-misspelt Neultenburg projekt, of which Gwyneth is a key figure, has become something of a Bavarian [...]
Full StoryProk’s Candid Coversations With the Core: Lordfly Digeridoo, Part Two
For those of who you enjoyed SL resident Prokofy Neva’s “journalistic” debut last week, in which SL architect Lordfly Digeridoo kindly submitted himself to questions from the rhapsodist of Ravenglass (and even for those who did not), we are overjoyed to present Part Two, in which our interlocutors address questions of the grid’s economy. No [...]
Full StoryProk’s Candid Coversations With the Core: Lordfly Digeridoo, Part One
The Feted Inner Core: what is it? If you have to ask, that doesn’t mean you’re not a member. But it certainly exists — at least according to SL resident Prokofy Neva, who coined the term way back in January, deep in this thread on the SL forums. Since then, forum traffic indicates the term [...]
Full StoryGame Reviews: #1 Living the Dark Life
by Koden Farber For those who love role playing games but are so addicted to Second Life they can’t log off to play something else, several in-game games may be the solution. In this report, I begin a series of reviews of in world games. This week we dive into Dark Life. In subsequent reviews [...]
Full Story“It”s Not Illegal Yet!” — Opening the Sports Book in SL
by Walker Spaight As the rash of Tringo parlors makes clear, gambling is a not unpopular activity in Second Life. Now, just in time for March Madness, a full sports book is coming to SL that will allow residents to indulge their taste for wagering on RL sports like NCAA basketball, Major League Baseball, and [...]
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