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EA to employ 500 in China. Jeff Brown: “it isn’t outsourcing”
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown According to this article in the Mercury News, EA is expanding its operations in China and may hire as many as “500 artists, developers, and programmers by the end of the decade.” In the face of all the recent whining from EA employees and their spouses about [...]
Full StoryInterview with a Vampire: Mir talks to Gweem Engel
Yesterday we republished Miravoir Psaltry?s article from Players on Second Life vampires. Today we give you her raw interview with vampire Gweem Engel.
Full StoryThe Vampires of Second Life
By Miravoir Psaltry (reprinted from Players, volume 11) In this story Miravoir, our intrepid chronicler of Second Life dancers, escorts, and furries meets some of the local vampires, and gets a great story, but also gets tapped! I warned her, I warned her?
Full StoryBedazzling Gravity Space Station
I gather that the Gravity Space Station is just a place to chill while the Bedazzled group works on their development of Unreal Tournament (or a version of it) inside SL (and with Francis Chung’s Seburo compact exploder no less), but it is noteworthy for the texturing and all. While I was visiting Phillip Linden [...]
Full StoryOne Song’s Poker Table
Infamous land baron, strip club/escort service operator, and virtual arsonist One Song (aka Mr. Fairplay) has finished his long awaited poker table — and the result is one of the most complexly scripted single objects in Second Life. We have seen it in operation at The Edge, and at the Red River Valley Saloon. Following [...]
Full StoryInterview with Phil Murdock of Empire Vendors
Snow and Phil In this interview Miravoir Psaltry talks to Phil Murdock, who with Snow Hare heads up the Empire Vendors Group. They turned sex toys and sex animations into an empire! Their story follows.
Full StoryDrama Comes to Simcast!
Well, as much as the Herald luvs drama, a nice fat scoop of it would have would have made it into these pages days ago if I hadn’t been all wrapped up in my rl gf who is visiting from some undisclosed central eurpoean company (hint, she’s an infamous game dev groupie!). Anyway… …no sooner [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown: We aren’t the Only Sweat Shop!
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Just a few days ago, when we blogged the heartbreaking post from EA Spouse, we predicted that Jeff Brown would weigh in with some suitably unhelpful comments. And now he has! While the post from EA spouse has now received some 3000 comments (including many stories that [...]
Full Storyraganarok and cultural design
at terra nova, nick yee has written an interesting discussion about how cultural assumptions inform the design of in-game culture. he mentions the differences in ideas about how appearance and profession affect identity in western v non-western game. read it here.
Full Storyavatar beauty contest seeking models and other yummies
this little morsel is from Variety: Miss Digital World — An Avatar Beauty Contest Wired News has a story about a beauty contest searching for the best looking female digital avatar.
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