Archive for 'Miscellaneous'

Post Six Grrrl: Cindy Claveau

The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Cindy Claveau! Cindy is a person with very varied tastes in everything from music to literature, and has been “immersed” (in her own words) in the so-called “Metaverse” for many years. My thanks go out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine [...]

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EVE EXTRA: $16.5k Heist/Assassination Breaks Ubiqua Seraph Corp

Read all about it! After a months-long infiltration operation, the Eve Online corporation Guiding Hand Social Club managed to work its agents high into the ranks of the Ubiqua Seraph corp (corps are Eve’s version of guilds), from whence they pulled off what is being called the biggest heist/coup/assassination in Eve history, making away with [...]

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Is the MMORPG Currency Crash of ’05 Upon Us?

Image source: WOW Gold Price Research According to new (?) virtual economy site Game Money Price Research, the virtual sky may just be falling. GMPR has an alarming set of charts up tracking the dive of almost all major MMORPG currencies against the U.S. dollar in the first half of this year. While GMPR’s methodology [...]

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Fashion Show Review: Zelinna Zacques

by Chipsen Queso This evening, I attended the innaugural fashion show of the Bella Donna models group of the island of Mirage. This show was advertised as having 20 new wedding designs by the marvelous designer Zelinna Jacques, who is known for her wonderful prim dresses. Though the show faced many problems, the presentation was [...]

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Introducing the Herald Phunny Pages

The Herald is pleased to announce the appointment of SL resident Brian Mifflin to the cosmically prestigous position of Herald Phunny Page Editor. We will be publishing a weekly comic strip and occasional cartoons with SL subject matter. Contact Brian in game if you wish to be a contributor. (Yes we pay). We begin by [...]

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Skin Review: Logan Bauer

The Herald has decided to take a bit of a break from the five skin reviews originally planned as our first five to review a couple of other skin makers first, some well-known, some not, and some known better for other things altogether. Today, I’m reviewing a male skin by Logan Bauer. Logan made his [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Elaine Marlowe

The Herald is happy to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Elaine Marlowe! Elaine is a very busy person who recently opened up an all-male mall in the Fundama sim, and evidently understand the pains that all of us guys go through to attempt to find good clothing! I’d like to take a [...]

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The Surrealistic Playground of Brainiac HQ

by Leon Mechanique Where the brains are There’s just something about visiting Deevyde Maelstrom’s Brainiac HQ that really gets the mind working in odd rhythm’s. When the Herald asked me to check out the new games Deevyde released in July, I thought to myself, “That sounds like fun” (and “I could make a few quick [...]

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Putting the Wind in SL’s Sails

by Eloise Pasteur Racing the winds of Second Life Last week, the Second Life Sailing Federation (SLSF) held its first large race, not around an island within a sim, but around islands over a route through several sims. “So what?” you may be thinking. “Boats have been around in SL since the very early days, [...]

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Skin Review: Kathmandu Gilman

by Chipsen Queso Continuing with the Herald’s series of skin reviews, I recently purchased Kathmandu Gillman’s white tiger skin, along with female accessories, in order to review it. I am not a furry, and have never desired to be a furry, but Kathmandu is well-known for his realistic furry skins, one of the ones I [...]

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