Archive for 'Building a Better VR'
Editorial: Save the Oil Rig!
The ANWR oil rig Having now explored where only Lindens had gone before and after reading What Philip Said At the Oil Rig on Wednesday night and other SL forum threads, the Herald’s editorial board feels it important that the Lindens consider preserving some of the landmark builds that made the new northern continent a [...]
Full StoryGo North, Young Av
by Walker Spaight At long last, intrepid explorer Magellan Linden‘s intrepid explorations have borne fruit. A new land mass has appeared in the northern reaches of the Grid we call Second Life.
Full StoryGame Developer Rants burn houses, babies and bridges
If you hadn’t caught them earlier, Cory Ondrejka’s (aka Cory Linden’s) Terra Nova forum threads about the now-infamous Game Developers Rants, were Slashdotted yesterday. The main two Terra Nova threads are called ‘Burning Down the House’ and ‘Burn baby burn’. Some of the things that games developers came out with were beauties like these: “Iwata-san [...]
Full StoryNow and Then
For those interested in the history of the Second Life landmass we know as the Grid, Olympia Rebus flags a fascinating project by Essence Lumin, in which Essence has posted a snapshot of each and every sim on the Grid as they appeared a year ago, in March 2004. Why Olympia doesn’t include a link [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: “Bow, wanker” – Old Games Journalism Raises Its Fist
Fernando Martinez: “A real man needs more than one thing in life, you know what I’m saying here? The heart and the loins both on fire… groaning and straining and making hot dirty passionate encounters with the secretaries, while the wife she sleeps at home…” By Neal Stewart I’m clearly ‘a bit of a wanker’. [...]
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 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 StoryBash and Crash on Unreal:SL’s Opening Night
Bedazzle’s much-anticipated Unreal:SL kicked off its weekend-long opening festivities last night with a crowded dance party that had everyone in attendance kicking up their heels — so much so that the sim crashed before the party was much more than an hour old.
Full StoryLand Ho!
(Image stolen from secondlife.com) A new world (or at least a new sim or three) has apparently been discovered north of the SL grid.
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