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October Census: Alphaville is officially dead
Following up on our February and May Census, here are the results for Alphaville in October (taken Oct. 10) and it isn’t pretty. Following are the logged hours for the top 100 properties in every catgory rounded to the nearest hour. Category
Full StorySooner or later, everyone has their own blog
Well this is the worst news imaginable for Second Lifers. Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden, your CEO and spiritual leader) has started his own blog. I mean its not that he doesn’t have interesting ideas, but… Dude! Blogs are a time sink! Run away!!!! Oh that, and the premise of the first entry strikes me [...]
Full Story30 Million down the toilet
Forbes.com has a very interesting article on the success of City of Heros, but along the way it drops this little nugget: “Cryptic thereby defies a troubling trend: Internet games, first ballyhooed as the next big thing, have struggled. Electronic Arts dropped perhaps $30 million (EA won’t confirm it) building, marketing and supporting Sims Online, [...]
Full StoryBlood Fued: One Song and Tank Levy to settle their score in Second Life Boxing
By Gina Fatale Most Second Life veterans are already familiar with Second Life Boxing (SLB). Run by Tommy Rampal and David Jacobs, these two men combine boxing and WWE style matches, bringing some high octane entertainment to SL. With the nearing completion of their new arena/mall/amusement complex the two impresarios wanted to have a boxing [...]
Full StoryImitation Herald…Smerald
By: Father Callahan Update: Some readers are confused that the link belongs to the new DC Herald, however in the midst of all of this drama, Ian (Sir) bought it and fowarded it to his blog, the Alphaville Gazette. I hope our readers are not confused that he is the imitation name. My deepest apologies [...]
Full StoryWhy did Stratics ban Sir?
Sir sent me the emails with the pretexts under which Leah permanently banned him from Stratics, and I have to say that I ? even in my advanced state of jadedness ? I am shocked by the whole thing? But somewhat amused too. Following is the ban letter sent to the Sir. Loosen up the [...]
Full StoryTwo Parties while the Wizzards work late
Was a busy night in SL last night. Two club grand openings: One Song’s new Club Erotic, and the new Club Elite on Elite Island. But no sooner did I get done doing my paparazzi thing at those events but I was summoned back to the SimCast dev tower. Seems the latest SL update induced [...]
Full StoryBartle Mourns the Loss of Creative Freedom in MMORPGs
In a recent post on Terra Nova, game making pioneer/god Richard Bartle (d00dz, he co-wrote the first MUD) mourns the loss of creative freedom in the new MMORPGs. Why are we all giving up our creative freedom so happily? Do we all just wanna be SOE’s beyotches or is it just that we have no [...]
Full StoryGaming Open Market Hacked Again
GOM strike price. Hmm, Lindens need to do something about the deflation. As Dan Hunter has reported on Terra Nova, the Linden dollar/US dollar money exchange, Gaming Open Market, has been hacked again. Thankfully, the Lindens are working with Jamie Hale (aka Zeppi Schlegel) to rectify the situation. Obviously we are going to see a [...]
Full StoryFor the Truth…
For almost a year now, the Alphaville/Second Life Herald has resisted persistent calls for us to jump into the national political fray (frey?). But times have changed, and what with the Herald now widely recognized as perhaps the most important blog ever (and because Bloodninja has goon awol), we can no longer sit on the [...]
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