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Scripted Dice Roll Themselves: D&D Comes to SL
by Fiend Ludwig Tringo, look out Tenderly spoofed by Stephen Colbert, and extolled by podcast pundit Alex Albrecht on Diggnation, pen-and-paper (or tabletop) Dungeons & Dragons—you know, that game with the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master’s Guide and those funny shaped dice—seems to be experiencing a resurgence in popularity in a curious place: the [...]
Full StoryCrocodile Tears in Baku
Lindens claim 60 banned, yet W-Hat’s can only find 22 “missing”Linden leaves memento at goon gravesiteBanned avatars use IRC Link to chat in-world by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs Desk The W-Hats remember their own I arrive in Baku sim and meander over to a small goon graveyard, when — right on cue — Mephiston [...]
Full StorySecondCast #33: From Music to MySpace
There’s a new SecondCast on the air: in Episode #33 we talk to Mike Prevost of Muse Isle, a Second Life venue for live music performance, and Cylindrian Rutabaga, who often plays there. An interesting look at what it’s like to gig in the virtual world. Plus, listen along as the SecondCasters pimp their MySpace [...]
Full StoryMLB.com and Electric Sheep Play at Bobblehead Baseball
Tiny Boston Red Sox go head-to-bobblehead with wee New York Yankees in new stadium seating 45 By Pixeleen Mistral, Herald Sports Desk “We’re super psyched,” said Hank Hoodoo of the Electric Sheep Company virtual world services firm, talking about a “real-time, virtual world enactments” of two Red Sox-Yankees games that will take place in Second [...]
Full StoryBeeb 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. [...]
Full StoryIncredibly Hostile Exchanges: A Chat With Philip Linden
by Prokofy Neva, Special to the Second Life Herald Today marks the first day of the last of the Second Life forums. As Linden Lab begins to shut down the message boards that have been home since beta to a never-ending stream of advice, sales pitches, information and vitriol, the Herald took the opportunity to [...]
Full StoryPortraits from SLCC
SL residents attempt hallway camping at SLCC in hopes of earning L$2 per 10 minutes With the Herald on a shoestring budget this year, we had little opportunity to see Hamlet get horizontal, but there were plenty of faces on display among the crowd of 400+ devoted SL residents in attendance. Without further ado, we [...]
Full StoryLindens Hit the Bottle After SLLA Assault on American Apparel
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk Linden staffer (in dreadlocks) provides personal SL support for a potential business partner (in black and red) at American Apparel After spamming a number of the SL forums recently with demands for resident voting and consultation before major Linden decisions, SL resident Marshal Cahill told me Thursday, “We [...]
Full StoryFeature-Length SL Documentary slated for October release
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk. “We aren’t doing this to show what Second Life ‘plays’ like, we are here to make a documentary about what people do in it”, said Anders Ogre when I spoke with him recently. Mr. Ogre is a filmmaker creating a feature-length documentary about Second Life due to be [...]
Full StorySecondCast #29: zzzzz . . .
Second Cast Episode #29 is out, and it’s a real snoozer! Actually, I haven’t listened to it yet (I missed the taping yet again, unfortunately), but as Johnny Ming puts it in his show notes, “The show was so riveting that Cristiano fell asleep.” The crew also interviews SL resident Tony Tigereye, owner of the [...]
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