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May Census: Activity in Alpha Down 15% Since February
Back in February, we published some stats from CherryBomb, who counted up the number of hours logged in the top 100 properties in each category. While it is difficult to extract conclusions from these surveys, they do provide some interesting discussion points. (For example, residence is up 8%, but romance and welcome are both down [...]
Full StoryPapparazi Catch Simlebrities in SL
by Pat the Rat Alphaville Simlebrities can run but they cannot hide. Here our SL papparazi catch four Alphaville citisims on the lamb in the land of merry-go-rounds and really big trees. Can you identify them? Winner gets a date with the hottie in the lower left of the pic. Hint: guy in blue shirt [...]
Full StoryAlphaville Gazette opens shop — talks to Crystal’s River
Former AVG Press officer , money trader, and frequent contributor to The Alphaville Herald, Ian, is still several decades away from being the stylin’ mack daddy and media mogul that Uri is, but he has made a good start with the lauching of his blog, The Alphaville Gazette. His most recent post is a very [...]
Full StoryAVG seeks new veep.
The Alphaville Government is seeking a new Vice President to replace Paul Tulley, who recently resigned and formed a government in Mount Fuji. Check out the AVG web site for details.
Full Storymore about pets
the trade in pets continues. the pet lotto transfer store, marjoriex, proprietor offers the following four ways to trade in pets:
Full Storyin praise of bots
by humdog for uri: You Are My Sunshine why are there bots in tso? comments about bots in tso seem mostly limited to value judgments relative to their relationship with the tso rules, such as they are. i think that a case can be made the bots are necessary to the game, given the economic [...]
Full Storyop/ed: on scammers
by humdog i think there are a few things that are interesting about scammers, and i don’t see anybody mentioning them, so i will. scammers are interesting to me because they are somehow able to cleanly divide the values they hold “in game” from the values they hold “out of game” or as the rest [...]
Full StoryBack to the Drawing Board: Dan’s Grove New Voting System Turns into Mess
By Dana Grove Accusations and complaints arose during the primary voting in Dan’s Grove this past Saturday. Running in the primaries were LegolastheGreat, Lonnie Rodriguez, RAW, USAPresident, Eminem- and Afrin. In the past, citizens of Dan’s Grove used to vote on websites, too many were complaining foul play when using this method. A new voting [...]
Full StoryIt’s Official: AVH and PL now blamed for everthing in TSO!
Why are there scammers in tso ? Alphaville Herald Encourages them.Why are there money bots in tso? Alphaville Herald “advertises” them.Why is there drama in tso? Alphaville Herald fuels it.Why are there Mafias in tso? Must have to do with the Alphaville Herald.All of this we already knew. But I’ll bet not all of you [...]
Full StoryGameSpot Interviews Darth Vader
by The Phantom In a recent intervew, GameSpot talks to EA’s CEO (they call him “King”, but why quibble) Larry Probst. My favorite part is an exchange in which Ole Lar seems to admit that they went to EEE and found that Sega had a better football game. The solution? Outmarket them! What a hero.
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