Archive for 'Gaming in General'
Support Virtuality — Help Game A Netflix Popularity Contest!!!
by Idoru Wellman, staff writer
The Netflix “Find Your Voice film competition” is a great new game where everyone can participate by forming gangs to vote for the independent film maker that best represents their community and interests. Consider this a more positive version of the gang abuse report used in Second Life to get the [...]
Full StoryRichard Bartle in Metaplace — MMOs FTW & WTF
The best way to get into it is to go where it isn't and wait for it to come – Richard Bartle
by Idoru Wellman, staff writer
[Richard Bartle recently visited Metaplace, and although the most of the Herald staff were unable to attend, one of Urizenus Sklar's contacts provided this transcript. Cuppycake (Metaplace community manager and [...]
Avatars & Humans Unite to Fight Facebook
Facebook group to petition for avatar identities on Facebook
by Pixeleen Mistral, News Idoru
A sadness tinged with arousal – Facebook is already an MMORPG
The grand tradition of self-referential emergent behavior in social software continues as Facebook users have formed a group to petition the Facebook gods to allow avatar and pseudonym personalities to live free from [...]
EVE Game Gods: Council on Stellar Management better than Reading FICky Forums
A Lesson for other MMOs?by Dr. Legion, staff reporter
In this very interesting interviewon MMORPG, Petur Oskarrson talks about the EVE Online Council on Stellar Management (CSM) — a group of players elected to represent the players interests with the game company at face to face meetings in Iceland. Petur describes some of the changes that [...]
Browser Based 3D Worlds: Are the Pieces Finally Falling in Place?
by Urizenus Sklar, Contributing Editor
Raph Koster is expressing a kind of jaded been-there-done-that-saw-it-coming attitude about what he is seeing at the Game Developers Conference this year, and I’m not surprised. One year you are the crazy nut describing the future to an audience of twelve other nuts, and the next year the room is full [...]
Second Life Targeted for Shutdown as a “Game of Skill”?
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
The US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee hearings on H.R. 6870 today have some residents of Second Life concerned that the metaverse could become collateral damage in the war on online gambling, with suggestions that “games of skill” could be targets for regulation – most notably at the [...]
Amazon.com: Is Castronova Book Really About Online Whores?
by Idoru Wellman, literary cooking student
Amazon using sex to sell books?
Based on Amazon.com’s current listing of Edward Castronova’s latest literary effort as “Exodus to the Virtual World: Ho Online Fun Is Changing Reality”, it appears the Second Life online escort service business really is having an impact on reality. Certainly a number of Second Life [...]
As the Hype Cycle Turns
Does “The Slope of Enlightenment” mean “I Went to Webkinz?”
by Urizenus Sklar, at the Hypewatch Desk
Google trends shows that the SL Hype bubble continues to deflate while Webkinz pwns.
Theoretically, the Gartner hype cycle is supposed to go like this:
1. “Technology Trigger” — The first phase of a hype cycle is [...]
Life 2.0 Summit Receives Royal Reproach
Unexplained avatar bans draw imperial frown
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
The Dr Dobbs Life 2.0 fall summit concluded yesterday, but was marred by what may become an international incident – Princess Manqo of Yaximixche’s expression of pleasure at meeting virtual world experts is mixed with strongly worded warnings to event organizers about how to [...]
Forbes WoW Player Talkin’ Smack On Second Life
Will SL be the first virtual world to fail?
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
WoW player Dave Ewalt says SL players are losers
The iMojo wire’s inter-world taunting alarm went off this morning – and with good reason. After sitting through a couple ads in the Forbes video clip here, and some blather about the Linden space [...]
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