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ADV: Metaplace Needs Hugs
You can dance. You can give balloons. But where is the love? What if you lived in a world where shaking hands was impossible?A world where you couldn't even hug your best friends? A world without love… what kind of pixelated life would that be? Sadly, such a world exists today – in Metaplace. But [...]
Full StoryMystery Inside Investor Sells Stake in Linden Lab
Someone unloaded their Linden Lab holdings – but who? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk With reports circulating that an individual investor's equity stake in the Lab had been sold to Stratim Capital, the rumor mill can be expected to go into overdrive speculating about exactly which insider sold their shares – and why. Stratim [...]
Full Story“Secret” NDA for Huxley: The Dystopia Leaked!!!
Shhhhhh… don't tell anyone by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk now being translated for your convenience Huxley is a long anticipated Korean bloodfog-oriented MMO now accepting signups for a closed beta in north america. The trailers for the game include just barely enough cybergrrrls with guns to make the first person shooter look interesting, and [...]
Full Story1st Quarter Second Life Economic Results In: QPC holding steady for now
by Jessica Holyoke After weeks of waiting, Linden Lab recently finally released the numbers needed for the Herald's Economic Department to report Quarter 1's Quarterly Profit per Capita for SL (QPC). Or at least, most of them. For as long as the Herald has been publishing the QPC, it has been based on an average [...]
Full StoryHow Profitable is the Second Life Fashion Game?
by Tenshi Vielle I recently ran a very informal survey at Shopping Cart Disco in attempt to learn what Second Life's fashion designers cash out of Second Life per month. The results are summarized in the table below — the average earnings for all designers was $850 USD/month. Inexperienced designers claiming to take home an [...]
Full StoryBrunoo Loon Spends L$ Spacebux Fortune on Ads
Half million L$s to buy top spots in Second Life classified ads by Alessandra Narayan Look at SL’s search engine and you’ll find three or four companies spending 500’000$L per week in advertising, or around 2000$USD. Whether this should be considers a large or small fortune depends on your point of view, but in any [...]
Full StoryWholesale Fails In Second Life
Full permission sculpty packs – worse than BIABs? by Tenshi Vielle Remember the BIAB drama? Business in a box, where you could purchase clothes, eyes, skins, hair, shoes — all full perm, in one transaction? Dudley Do-Rights in SL would set those up for sale tomake themselves a few hundred USD, while the grid and [...]
Full StoryFinancial Domme Stimulus Package for Second Life Economy?
by Tenshi Vielle Financial Domming has recently popped up in Second Life, and is exactly what it sounds like — there are submissives who fork over their Lindens to the Domme willingly. This may be the greatest scheme in Second Life – even better than the ponzi schemes virtual banks – because all the rules [...]
Full StoryHabbo Reports $74 Million in Revenues.
By Urizenus Sklar, still trying to get his money back from uncle Bernie… TechCrunch is reporting that Habbo hotel is claiming a slight profit of on $74 million US in revenues, principally from the sale of virtual items. However, TechCrunch author Erick Schonfeld snarkily calls it the sale of "nothing" because the virtual goods are [...]
Full StoryCarbonite Makers Cave to Blizzard Directive
by Dr. Legion, staff reporter We recently posted a story about a dust-up in the WoW community over the new Blizzard policy about addons — user made enhancements of the game interface. According to the new policy, addons can not be sold and donations can not be solicited in world. Now one target of the [...]
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