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Paging Kale: Cory Linden floats proposal for new SL permissions system
Cory Linden has joined the army of lemmings marching into the bottomless pit that is a personal blog, and while he predicts that the we scribes at the Herald will mourn this development, the fact of the matter is that we now accept it as inevitable fact of life — like flatulence, fornication, and death. [...]
Full StoryBig Mick Permanently Banned from Stratics!
Well, the tale of Stratics keeps writing itself, and just when u think the plot couldn’t get any thicker, well, it gets thicker! Just days after opening his own chat board as an alternative to Stratics, Mick Lite has been banned from Stratics for having a link to his own board in his bio. You [...]
Full Story30 Million down the toilet
Forbes.com has a very interesting article on the success of City of Heros, but along the way it drops this little nugget: “Cryptic thereby defies a troubling trend: Internet games, first ballyhooed as the next big thing, have struggled. Electronic Arts dropped perhaps $30 million (EA won’t confirm it) building, marketing and supporting Sims Online, [...]
Full StorySL modifies Terms of Service and EULA (sort of)
Well, at least they let us know when then introduce a new agreement. The new TOS seems like a lot of legal CYA without much thought to forging serious business partnerships. For example, how much are *you* willing to invest in a platform that keeps this clause in its TOS? ?7.1 Termination. Linden has the [...]
Full StoryThe Other Way to Run a Forum
Thanks to Toy for passing along this tidbit. While the Stratics Mods are busy falling overthemselves threatening to ban people that provide links to sites that link to sites that link to sites that sell game currency, Robin Linden (an EA escapee, btw) offers the following breathtakingly simple and sane policy for the SL Forums: [...]
Full StorySOE vs Big Mick
Mick Lite and his OnlineGameBucks site just can’t stay out of the news lately. No sooner does he reward his 10,000th customer with 500K extra free simoleans in the hardcore city of Dragon’s Cove, than Sony Online Entertainment tries to bust a cap in his ass over his sale of time cards and CD Keys [...]
Full StoryGaming Open Market Hacked Again
GOM strike price. Hmm, Lindens need to do something about the deflation. As Dan Hunter has reported on Terra Nova, the Linden dollar/US dollar money exchange, Gaming Open Market, has been hacked again. Thankfully, the Lindens are working with Jamie Hale (aka Zeppi Schlegel) to rectify the situation. Obviously we are going to see a [...]
Full StorySecond Skin, part 5: Mistress Midnight
By Miravoir Psaltry Believe it or not this is the 5th SL skin artist we’ve talked to. Previously in this series of interviews we spoke with Chip Midnight, Santana Lumiere, and CherryBomb Hare and Kathmandu Gilman. In this installment we speak with Mistress Midnight, best known for her elegant and sensual goth skins.
Full StoryRevenge 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 [...]
Full StorySL 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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