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Welcome Area Nuked! Lindens Blame Teh Herald.
by Urizenus Sklar and Gina Fatale So there I was, living the life of leisure that befits a media mogul of my stature, sipping Cristal and keeping track of my investments when I received a story from Herald reporter Gina Fatale. “Why do you trouble me with these trifles?,” I asked, and then Gina explained [...]
Full StoryA Newb In Linden Land: Thoughts of a new citizen
By Cienna Samiam Ever since accidentally stumbling onto Meridan59 some years ago, I have been both fan and critic of online gaming. I am not sure how you found Second Life, but I found it after leaving yet another MMO in disgust; tired of chasing another carrot on another stick for a monthly fee. I [...]
Full StoryThe Cory Details
Looks like today is gonna be hype Cory day. There are notes from Cory’s talk at the Serious Games Summit, up on the Wonderland blog, and some of the statistics are interesting (if they are widely known, well, I didn’t know them): Examples: Last month: 20,000 people used SL. 50,000distinct items were sold. There were [...]
Full StoryGame Developer Rants burn houses, babies and bridges
If you hadn’t caught them earlier, Cory Ondrejka’s (aka Cory Linden’s) Terra Nova forum threads about the now-infamous Game Developers Rants, were Slashdotted yesterday. The main two Terra Nova threads are called ‘Burning Down the House’ and ‘Burn baby burn’. Some of the things that games developers came out with were beauties like these: “Iwata-san [...]
Full StoryReview: Sexy Skyboxes – Second Life’s Mile High Clubs
Veteran builder and gamer Pirate Cotton sets sail on a quest for sexy treasures in this review of five skyboxes. Casting his one good remaining eye over a bevvy of designs and textures and, despite his wooden-leg, Pirate manages to road-test a variety of sexballs. With him is the First Mate, Neal Stewart, slinging comments [...]
Full StoryProk’s Candid Conversations with the Core: Cristiano Midnight, Part One
Feted, fetid or fretted? Which are you? In the second installment of the occasional series that takes you, the everyday Herald reader, on a tour of the inner core with the inimitable Prokofy Neva, Prok shines the light on Cristiano Midnight — probing him on core issues of the Grid’s economy, the launch of Snapzilla [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Seraph Opel
We at the Herald are happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Seraph Opel after this past week without a Post Six Grrrl in order to not distract you all from the series of informative articles posted recently. Seraph is a highly-respected and frequent model for both Madison Blanc’s Top Model agency and [...]
Full StoryNow and Then
For those interested in the history of the Second Life landmass we know as the Grid, Olympia Rebus flags a fascinating project by Essence Lumin, in which Essence has posted a snapshot of each and every sim on the Grid as they appeared a year ago, in March 2004. Why Olympia doesn’t include a link [...]
Full StoryThe Birth, Death, Release and Rebirth of the Torley Threnody Melody
By Neal Stewart Torley Torgeson Jnr, daughter of Torley Torgeson Snr, alt of Torley Wong, recently announced the release of 2.7GB and 16 hours of 230 complete, high-quality MP3 tracks – entirely conceived, galumphed and outgrabed by the uffish Torster. They are released openly and freely into the Creative Commons and the LSD-inspired bat-country of [...]
Full StoryThrough the Summer Door
(Not Second Life) The second in an occasional series from RL sci-fi scribe Budka Groshomme, who has been sharing with the Herald his first impressions of Second Life. Becoming a resident of Second Life appears quite unlike entereing the traditional science-fictional cyberspace, a virtual world made real from nothing more than bits and bytes, where [...]
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