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It All Happened at the Happening
Make magazine’s Phillip Torrone prepares to probe the virtual world I was skeptical about it when I first heard the description, but Second Life did indeed meet and mingle with the massively multiplayer offline universe often known as First Life last night. It all happened at The Happening, “an extraordinary audio/visual benefit experience” that went [...]
Full StoryReal-World Music Festival to Fund SL Events
The Foundation For Rich Content — which we covered when it started up last year — is now inviting Second Life users to an Alabama of the mind. The FFRC, which provides private grants to SL residents to help fund “events and projects that enrich the cultural scene of Second Life,” recently teamed up with [...]
Full StoryLove and Pixels
I never tire of writing about Diamond Hope, the hot young av who found a real-world husband after appearing in the pages of the Herald. So now, in my guise as uber-journalist Mark Wallace, I’ve put her in The Escapist as part of its Valentine’s Day issue. The piece recaps the story of young Di’s [...]
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Herald TV: Exclusive Footage of the Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction!
Yes, we know that SL is full of 1337 machinima crews making lots of 1337 machinima. But in the Herald we prefer the grainy, gritty reality that we get from the cheap ass video cameras used by our faithful readers and reporters. Do you have a video of a mafia hit? A protest? A socialist/skinhead [...]
Full StoryBlizzard: 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 [...]
Full StorySex, 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 [...]
Full StoryWe’ve Moved!
The Second Life Herald has moved to http://www.secondlifeherald.com. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it’s all part of our effort to Take Over Teh World!!!!!
Full StoryAvatar of the Year, Second Place: Anshe Chung
Second place in the Herald’s coveted Avatar of the Year award traditionally goes to the avi who has had the most impact on the virtual world’s economic scene. Last year’s winner, Sir/Father Callahan, was a master of the simolean trade in TSO, as well as a collector of rare cannons and press secretary for the [...]
Full StoryMTV Hosts Nutty Wacky Avi Contest. Joy.
According to a post by Glitchy Gumshoe on the SL Future Salon site, MTV will be “filming’ an in game fashion shoot, and they are soliciting pics of interesting — nay “craziest looking” avatars. Well now. Zero Grace is decidedly unimpressed by this turn of events, but he is a crotchety old man. We, on [...]
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