Archive for 'Virtual Products, Services and Reviews'

More Grid Hopping

by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista I never knew Tuesday nights were so busy in Second Life. This evening held three very big events in ESC history. The NBA made its virtual-world debut on the T-Mobile sim, while the Aloft project held a second grand opening and took questions from the attendees, and Robert Redford’s The [...]

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Nissan Retools

The Orignal Nissan Build has Become a Famous SL Marketing Flub. Is the New Project Any Better? Readers may recall our criticism of the Nissan build last October. It was our view that the build failed to take advantage of the social nature of online worlds and also failed to show any sort of imagination [...]

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Residents of 8 Sims Homeless – Is Land Scamming or Illness to Blame?

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk What appears to be one of the largest virtual land business failures ever threw residents of at least 8 sims out of their homes today – as the Azure Islands land company did a repo-man job on sims owned by Azure Islands but managed by lilly Margretts. Sources claim [...]

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Pontiac G8 – Metaverse Spy Shots!

Feel the Pontiac Excitement Tingle in SL – sometime this summer by Tenshi Vielle – Fabulous Fashionista Pontiac G8, as viewed in the psychedellic shadow box on the Pontiac sim Tonight, at about 6pm SLT, Pontiac gave the SL world the very first look at their new car – the Pontiac G8.The G8 is a [...]

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Watch Your Virtual Ankles, Roomba’s Cleaning Up In Second Life

If you’ve been worried about the detritus that builds up in Second Life as a result of prim drift and Tiny sex, worry no longer. Resident Mooba Sienkiewicz (aka Greg, the myRoomBud crew’s dad) sends word that he’s created a virtual Roomba for use in-world. “One day a real Roomba’s gonna come along and wash [...]

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BMW’s No-Drive Zone

by Fiend Ludwig [We sent Herald reporter Fiend Ludwig to test-drive some Beemers in Second Life -- only to find the project could hardly get into first gear.--Walker Spaight] BMW New World: Dude, where’s my SL car? Another corporate sim equals another deserted island. This formula, oft trundled out by the not-so-mainstream media seems, in [...]

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Shock! Fashion Designer Knockoffs

Designer copy victims banned from knockoff shop By Seola Sassoon News yesterday and this morning spread across my screen in the Sellers Guild chat channel about a ‘new designer’. In fact, it wasn’t a new designer, but an account with blatantly ripped items from many popular designers. I teleported in to immediately recognize some Nyte [...]

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Fear and Loathing in Second Life, Part 5: Helping You to Lead the Way

by Gideon Television I guess it was an innocent enough comment, right here on YesButNoButYes: “Is there any sort of drug scene in Second Life for Gideon to explore?” I’d been clean six months, but as soon as I read the words, the roof of my mouth went dry, and I got that weird itching [...]

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Fear and Loathing in Second Life Part 4: Happiness is a Warm Gun

by Gideon Television On Saturday, I finished my last piece, just before deadline. “The Best Little Whorehouses in Second Life“. Catchy. With a title like that, no-one would miss the irony. At least, not unless they were OUT OF THEIR FUCKING MINDS. By Sunday, the feces, as they say, had not so much hit the [...]

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Sausalito Smackdown: Millions of Sheep?

by Pat the Rat While Reuben Steiger, who runs Millions of Us, one of the Big Three players in the metaverse-industrial complex, tried to make light of it in a recent blog post, Pat the Rat hears that the recent meeting of the minds between Reuben and Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck was hardly [...]

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