Archive for 'Games Journalism and the Virtual Press'
Love Letters To The Net
by Onder Skall Remember people putting “cyber” in front of everything? Remember articles defining what an “emoticon” was? Suddenly… VERY suddenly… everything changed. That network not only became mainstream, it also fundamentally changed the lives of a lot of people. The isolated had company. The uneducated gained knowledge. The dreamers touched their dreams. The Internet [...]
Full StoryHeartun Breaker Leaving SL Herald
HELP WANTED: metaverse reporter / love&sex&advice columnist by Pixeleen Mistral, managing editrix My new iMojo phone was buzzing insistently where I left it on the granite blocks near the waterfront in Sanchon sim. That whole iPhone thing is so last week’s news now – these days you want to be rocking an iMojo. The iMojo [...]
Full StoryA FIC and Facile Guide to Second Life
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs Available at amazon.com While we wearily wait for Uri’s and Walker’s book to come out (when, Uri, oh, when?!), and while we save up $22.04 US for the expenso Hamlet’s et. al Official Guide to Second Life, we now have the Unofficial Tourists’ Guide to Second Life by [...]
Full StoryUpdated: Is Business Week Stealing Herald Intellectual Property?
Update: April 18, 10:30PM Linden Time As of 10:30 this morning the SL Herald attribution has been added to the BallerMoMo pic. Thanks to author Douglas Macmilllan for getting Business Week to fix this in a timely manner. As Prokofy Neva noted on April 16, Business Week is running an online article in which they [...]
Full StorySL Herald Sold to Aimee Weber Studios
by new Herald Reporter, Tateru Ninu Ms. Weber establishes new Herald Editorial Policy. Urizenus Sklar and Walker Spaight today announced the sale of the Second Life Herald, its intellectual property and in game assets to Aimee Weber Studios in exchange for $50,000 US. The deal, apparently struck at the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference, will certainly [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds 2007, Report #5: Venture Capital and The New School of Athens
by Urizenus Sklar As I reported Wednesday, much of the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference reeked of the anxiety of marketing guys and gals trying to catch up with the next wave. The fear was palpable. Why else would those people be sitting in that auditorium taking notes like they were Gorean slaves pressed into service [...]
Full StoryHerald Writers Pwn Nerd of the Week
The long awaited episode #2 of Nerd of the Week is out (or has been for weeks, does it matter?), and Herald staffers figure heavily in the cutting edge of nerddom. In particular, we get more than enough words or wisdom from Editorial Director Walker Spaight (aka Mark Wallace) and Prokofy Neva. And did Prok [...]
Full StoryShock! Video Celebrating Cyber-terrorism Wins Second Prize in Fox Sponsored Contest
Just a few weeks ago, Fox News was lamenting the virtual terrorism (and ageplay) in Second Life and calling upon Democratic Presidential candidate John Edward Edwards to condemn it. Today, Fox sub-sub-sub-sub- division Fox Atomic celebrates those exact very same cyber-terrorists by honoring a griefer-made machinima video celebrating Toronto-based griefer Plastic Duck. More shocking still: [...]
Full StoryUsefulness Is Dangerous
Blingsider, Tard*Star, New World Goats Notes are completely safe by Bayesian TextBot be very very afraid of games – and the Second Life Herald Roderick Jones recently posted an article to Counterterrorism Blog entitled “MetaTerror: The Potential Use of MMORPGs by Terrorists“. The article is primarily about Second Life, and on the whole compliments Linden [...]
Full StoryAnshe Chung Takes Flight
SL’s business girl has a business life on British Air by Onder Skall Wonderland’s world-travelling gaming guru Alice reports that “business life”, an in-flight magazine for British Airways, carries a cover story featuring our own Anshe Chung. Unfortunately, as she puts it: “no mention of flying willies.” I guess you can’t have everything. That cover [...]
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