Archive for 'Games Journalism and the Virtual Press'

Microsoft’s Mundie: Photosynthetic World OK, User-Created — No Way!

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Speaking at MIT’s Emerging Technology conference, Microsoft egghead Craig Mundie said the 3D spatial web will be photorealistic and made by automatically creating models from pictures taken in the real world — according to Ian Lamont’s report in The Industry Standard. While there are certainly uses for a reality-based [...]

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WNBC Scoop: People Are Having Sex In Second Life!

Metaverse also allows children access to torture, human sacrifice, suicide, illicit drugs by Sigmund Leominster Earlier this week, the world was rocked by some startling and unimaginable news from NBC’s New York affiliate, WNBC: There’s an online game called Second Life and people are having sex in the game! Yes, in a devastating 2 minute [...]

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Linden Lab Governance Team Blinks – Reverses Itself

Tizzers BnT brought back from the dead by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Tizzers at Fort Longcat A tense stare down developed between residents of Second Life and the Linden game gods earlier this week – part of a struggle over avatar naming rights and a series of preemptive account bans in the absence of [...]

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Second Life Herald Opens Lively Office

by Idoru Wellamn, staff writer Pixeleen Mistral today announced that the Second Life Herald is expanding it’s “always fairly unbalanced” coverage of the most vital virtual worlds’ news, by opening a branch office in Lively – internet advertising behemoth Google’s first step toward monetizing the immersive social experience. Ms. Mistral relaxes in a goth chair [...]

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Second Life Image Tarnished by Users?

RiversRunRed CEO warns against allowing residents to create 3D content by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk MIT Technology Review writer Brian White advises the metaverse that users may make “shoddy and even offensive content” if allowed to create in 3D worlds — sentiments echoed by the CEO of RiversRunRed Justin Bovington who praised internet advertising [...]

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AOL Tightens Belt, Massively Chokes Off SL News?

“Massively Staff” blogs for free at AOL properties after gaming writers are told to stop posting by Idoru Wellman, staff writer Techcrunch reports that AOL has savagely cut their blogging empire’s staff, chopping personel budgets up to 25% and telling writers to take a few weeks off while they wait and see if they have [...]

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Slouching Toward Bethlehem: The Anti-Poet

Spam filter fails — critic battles emo poetry outbreak by Sigmund Leominster, new media critic Following the tragic failure of my spam filter to do its job, I recently received an unsolicited email containing a piece of poetry from what was described as someone with “a poet’s heart and pen.” Here’s a clip from the [...]

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New Torley Linden Documentary Features Mitch Kapor

An all too accurate picture of the state of SL by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Mitch Kapor promises less novelty, less freedom, uneasy transitionas Torley Linden signals disapproval with bad sound, gray textures, low framerates Noted virtual filmmaker Torley Linden’s latest production is a documentary of the closing keynote address from the SL5B 5th [...]

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Shock!!! Pixeleen Mistral is Urizenus Sklar?!

Special to the Herald by staff reporter Idoru Wellman The supersleuths at upstart interweb newspaper The Griefer Herald believe they have unlocked the secret identity of Second Life Herald managing editrix Pixeleen Mistral. She is… wait for it… none other than Herald founder Urizenus Sklar. Asked to comment on the story, Urizenus admitted that he [...]

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GameCyte’s Journalism Lesson

GameCyte’s Sean Hollister invited to join Prokofy Neva as a Jr. Author at Second Life Herald To: Sean Hollister – Assistant Editor, GameCyst.comFrom: Pixeleen Mistral, managing editor- Second Life Heraldre: Re: Re: News tip: The TRUE story of NASA’s MMO Funding Sean, Apology accepted – assuming you add the link to the Second Life Herald [...]

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