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Next Up for Linden Lab: 2D Text Games for iPads?
At AOL’s DailyFinance site, Dawn Kawamoto reports that Linden Lab is working on a 2D game platform that seems almost completely unrelated to Second Life as we know it – except for a crowd-sourced approach to content creation. Citing sources familiar with the plans, Kawamoto tells us the new gaming platform (which some inside Linden [...]
Full StoryThe Great Rod Humble Twitter Metagame
A furry-led cargo cult on Twitter hopes to entice silent Second Life CEO into community dialog A new Twitter-based Second Life metagame raises interesting questions about online identity, social media, and just how unprepared Linden Lab leadership was for the curiously-timed December 23rd announcement of Rod Humble as new CEO. Given the level of investment [...]
Full StoryLab Nerfs SL Combat – Players Demand Server Rollback – Lab Surrenders
Friendly fire has become a serious issue that even the best of us can no longer control Non-violent protests at Help Island Public – demanding more violence in Second Life – and a furious Jira thread have resulted in a rollback of the most recent Second Life server update – an update which crippled combat [...]
Full StorySex and the Second Life City: A Dead End
Reporter captured, humiliated — urban roleplay sim coverage continues by Millennium Sands It is night when the bus with our reporter comes to a halt. Stepping out on the street, she smells the stink of diesel fumes, stale cigarette smoke, and something else even less pleasant. As the bus pulls away, she realizes that she [...]
Full StorySex and the Second Life City — Urban Roleplay Sims
Chapter One – The Crack Den by Millennium Sands [The dark alleys and derelict buildings of Second Life’s urban sims form a gritty stage set where residents risk their lives in roleplay that might shock even a jaded Gorean slavemaster. The Herald recently send Millennium Sands on a dangerous assignment - to shed light on [...]
Full StorySLHA Hockey League Renamed – Forms Alliance With Second Life Cable Network
Second Life Hockey Association Is Now Global Online Hockey Association by Alessandra Narayan Do you love hockey? Do you want to cross check other avatars into the boards here in Second Life? If so, you should visit Jack Belvedere’s sim and give it a try. You might end up absolutely in love – like so [...]
Full StoryWrestling in SL
Real girl catfights, theatre, and eroticism by aurel Miles There’s going to be a showdown Sports is one aspect of SL that has always baffled me. Writing about sex in Flatland, one is always mindful of the old cliché that the largest sex organ is between the ears. In my 18 months here in Flatland [...]
Full StoryLeveling Up In The Game of Second Life
Is Plexus Linden hoping for a new griefing flava while protecting SL residents from those who would do them harm? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk “SL combat groups fight each other in their bases…who does that? I want to design a combat system that will work in non-combat areas – real armies and groups [...]
Full StoryNASA Wants An MMO – For Free!
RFP asks developers to create a game for fun by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Friday, NASA released an RFP seeking a partner to help create a massively multiplayer online game to help teach science and engineering. The project has been seen as an exciting opportunity since it was initially announced in 2007 – a [...]
Full StoryNew Game – Sentinel 2.0
by Onder Skall I’ve received an urgent transmission and need your help! Beware the pink pony-tailed menace! BEGIN TRANSMISSION 1 (07.31.07). S.O.S. – S.O.S. – IBMCODESTATION is breached. Infiltrator appears to be horrible pink beastwith devastating pony-tails. Our defender, SENTINEL, is defeated –broken in four and scattered across Second Life. [See attached movie.]You are our [...]
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