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Tricking Out Virtual Rides: SL Gets its First Aftermarket Performance Shop!
Yeah, you bought your pixilated Audi TT, or maybe you got that sweet Primouth Fury, but you want more than the factory engine that came with it. Thank gopod SL finally has an aftermarket performance shop where you can soup up your engines with some nitrous and other essentials. In this interview Rizzo Ramona introduces [...]
Full StoryWhich Came First: the Creativity or the Creator?
by Budka Groshomme Wander at random through Second Life and creativity seems to spring from every corner. Everyone, it seems, is building something. It might be trivial, ugly, overstated, ornate, minimalist, inconsequential, heroic, or offensive but, by God, they are building it! The creative variety is overwhelming. If you doubt this, take a look at [...]
Full StoryWanking on about NGJ in The NYT
Forever playing catch-up to Second Life Herald, the New York Times today ran an article on New Games Journalism, days after readers of the Herald got the skinny from Neal Stewart and Walker Spaight. By gum, the author of the NYT piece — Mark Wallace — sure sounds a lot like our Walker Spaight. He [...]
Full StorySneak-Peak at Second Life’s Future Rendering Engine – ’2.0′
This snapshot of Second Life’s unreleased 2.0 Rendering Engine was leaked to the Herald Ben Linden yesterday posted to the SL Forums 9 screenshots showing the current progress of Second Life’s future rendering engine. These screenshots had been scattered and hidden throughout the grid as part of a sadistic treasure-hunt but were quickly recovered by [...]
Full StoryFashion Review: Asri Falcone
by Chipsen Queso It’s my pleasure to introduce to you a new fashion writer for the Herald, Chipsen Queso! Chipsen will be doing reviews of clothing lines and fashion shows for us. If you have any clothing you wish for her to review for publication in the Herald, feel free to drop her a folder [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Queenie Extraordinaire
The Herald is now very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Queenie Extraordinaire! Queenie is the co-owner of Club Hellraiser in SecondLife and is a large part of the day-to-day operations of RockNgames Radio, which can be heard all throughout SecondLife and in many other games. We would also like to take [...]
Full StoryAd Astra, and Even Further, Maybe
by Budka Groshomme Second Life is in many respects an alternative life, a dimension one step away from the mundane reality that marks our daily grind. In here, in this expansive, magical world, there are lions and tigers and, oh my, such wonderful things to see and do. It occurred to me that perhaps I [...]
Full StoryWhat Lies Beneath: A Meditation on the Digisoul
by Budka Groshomme When I was a kid I wondered, as most of my era did, whether the light in the icebox really went out when the door closed. Several attempts at divining this led only to a pinched nose. Although I have grown more careful about where I stick my nose since then, my [...]
Full StoryVirtually In Love
The Herald is proud to introduce the writing debut of Second Life’s famous nostril-wrestling, Linden-pashing, fashion designer and all-round social butterfly – Aimee Weber. Aimee takes a look at spring-romance, in this that special time of year when, as my parents explained it, all the birds make sweet, sweet love to all the bees singing [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Linden Labs and Griefers – Hands on or off?
by Neal Stewart OKKKAY? One of the perks of working for the Herald, other than the sex, drugs and heavy metal music… and the power… and the riches… other than those, one of… and the fame…. other than those, one of the perks is being able to pass your forum posts off as Op/Ed’s. The [...]
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