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Jeff Brown: We aren’t the Only Sweat Shop!
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Just a few days ago, when we blogged the heartbreaking post from EA Spouse, we predicted that Jeff Brown would weigh in with some suitably unhelpful comments. And now he has! While the post from EA spouse has now received some 3000 comments (including many stories that [...]
Full StoryAnother Sign of The End Times: a Hello Kitty MORPG
Maybe it was bound to happen. From the web site: “Hello Kitty World will allow thousands of players to live and participate in Hello Kitty’s magical and cute online world. You will be able to roam the streets of Kitty Kingdom, XO Federation, and Melody-land. Enjoy the beautiful landscape and architecture of Puroland or Badtzcity [...]
Full StoryBartle: We’re d00med by n00bs!
In a provocative new paper, Richard Bartle argues that game development is constrained in large part by the need to make games newbie friendly. Does this mean that innovative games like Second Life and A Tale in the Desert will forever going to be boutique games? Can they find a way to become newbie friendly [...]
Full StoryFree Speech for Avatars! And…like…Now!
Ludlow blasts Stratics. In a Session at The State of Play entitled Avatar Rights, Virtual Liberty, and Free Expression in Virtual Worlds, Peter Ludlow blasted the organized censorship policies of Stratics, while Fred Schauer of Harvard University suggested that the possibilities for free expression in virtual worlds should be used to explore alternative models of [...]
Full StoryOctober Census of Dragon’s Cove vs. Alphaville
By: Father Callahan In this census, I calculated the top 10 houses of each category. I will also show the results of this months Alphaville census, so you can draw your own conclusions. Some interesting trends that I noticed were, most categories in Alphaville had half the number of hours than Dragon’s Cove. However, Alphaville [...]
Full StoryE-L-I-T-E spells DRAMA! As dancers defect to The Deck, Big John vows: “I will burn u down!”
By Pat the Rat Well kids, sorry for being soooo slow in reporting on this, but what with the Fatale/Parks wedding and the carping in Centreville this gossip columnist has had his/her plate full. For those of you who don’t know, the tight-knit social fabric of Club Elite has imploded, with several dancers and escorts [...]
Full StoryBob Busch: Triads pwn Dragon’s Cove
Since Liz Montana moved to SL, became Gina Fatale, and went to work for One Song, life has gotten better for the Triad Mafia. Not only do they claim to pwn Dragon’s Cove on their web site, but Bob Busch has recently published a dissertation on the virtual Mafia life in Mick Lite’s new forums. [...]
Full StoryOne Song Wins Boxingmania! But not without Controversy…
By Gina Fatale The results from Friday’s Boxingmania at SLB in the One Song vs Tank Levy match are in, and as I predicted, the winner was One Song. The night started off with alot of trash talking between the two rivals and jumping in on the One-Song-hater band wagon was none other than one [...]
Full StoryOctober Census: Alphaville is officially dead
Following up on our February and May Census, here are the results for Alphaville in October (taken Oct. 10) and it isn’t pretty. Following are the logged hours for the top 100 properties in every catgory rounded to the nearest hour. Category
Full StoryImitation Herald…Smerald
By: Father Callahan Update: Some readers are confused that the link belongs to the new DC Herald, however in the midst of all of this drama, Ian (Sir) bought it and fowarded it to his blog, the Alphaville Gazette. I hope our readers are not confused that he is the imitation name. My deepest apologies [...]
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