Archive for 'Gaming in General'

LL Luvs LEWIS Spinmeisters

Morgan “LEWIS” McLintic to cover RL with spinning ad-cubes? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Morgan McLintic is loved Feeling the need for perhaps just a wee bit more soft and fluffy press coverage, Linden Lab recently sent some love to Morgan McLintic of the LEWIS public relations firm – Mr. McLintic is leading a [...]

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Beeb Seeks Avs For MMORPG Doc

The BBC is in production on an hour-long television documentary on massively multiplayer online games, and they’re looking for subjects to interview. If your avatar is “more like you than you are” — or even if you’re just a noob — get in touch with them and maybe you too can appear on British television. [...]

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Poof! LL’s Smoke and Mirrors Do Away With Starax Statosky

Starax Statosky is no more! Linden Lab’s magic wand has apparently done away with him. The master scripter, whose own magic wand had become one of the most popular SL diversions over the last six months or so — even being featured by kingpin Philip Linden at a talk at Google — no longer appears [...]

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Herald Editor Wins Presitigious Industry Award

His is not the prettiest face you’ll ever see in the Herald, but send him a a woot-ful congratulations anyway today. Who is he? He’s Peter Ludlow, the typist for Herald founder and editor emeritus Urizenus Sklar, and he’s just been named one of the ten most influential gamers of all time by no less [...]

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SecondCast Gets Their Game On

In Episode 17 of the most popular podcast on the Grid, we visit the annual game developers’ contest. Hear us try to figure out how to play the eight outstanding games on offer. A madcap soundscape through some of the most creative content to be found in Second Life.

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Capital Punishment for RMT in RF Online

Banning, crucifixion and cornfields are too good for gold-traders in the new MMO RF Online. Though the company recently banned more than 150 accounts for botting currency, a couple of game-masters also treated the transgressors to some in-game punishment, climbing into some pimped-out mechsuits to deliver swift one-shots to the criminal characters. Not only that, [...]

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Tringo Ships for GBA

Tringo, the game that captivated hundreds of Second Life residents (until the gripping excitement of camping chairs came along, that is), has now migrated into the real world and is available on the Game Boy Advance for a mere 15 bucks! Look for Tringo parties coming soon to a city near you. The only question [...]

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RealGamers Feel Long Arm of the Ohio Law

Following hot on the heels of the RealFrogger technology revealed at the Herald suite at South by Southwest, a group of teenage girls are being investigated in Ravenna, Ohio, after recreating a real-life version of Super Mario Bros. by placing 17 gold boxes with question marks spray-painted on them in various locations around the town. [...]

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Blizzard: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But Go Ahead and Call People “Fag” All You Like.

In Newsweekly ("New England’s Largest GLBT Newsletter") is running a story on an appalling new "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy on the part of Blizzard Entertainment where gay- and lesbian-friendly guilds are concerned (linked from BoingBoing the other day). Apparently, a member of a World of Warcraft guild advertising itself on the Blizzard forums as [...]

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Sex, Fame and PC Baangs

Games journo Jim Rossignol recently traveled to Korea, and has brought back the first really in-depth story about PC gaming culture in that country, which he wrote for PC Gamer (UK) but which is currently available on Jim’s own site. For anyone even marginally interested in the future of gaming and virtual worlds, it’s a [...]

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