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The MMORPG within the MMORPG: Part 1
While TSO remains all atitter over the fact that EA has introduced a new server/city (Dianastan, or Tigger Town, or Dragons Hangnail or whatever it is), Second Life had the idea that people should be able to buy their own servers in the SL grid (avatars can actually move between servers freely in SL) and [...]
Full StoryFallen Angel: AVG Groping Victim Falls in with One Song
Many of our dedicated readers will remember the case of the young Aphaville Government intern Gina, spoiled in the flower of her youth by the salacious advances of Mr-President. Sadly that incident has precipitated a moral decline in the young woman to the point where she has now taken employ as a dancer/camera girl with [...]
Full StoryProgram for State of Play II: Reloaded
I was looking for a slow period to blog the program for the State of Play conference, and this looks like the time. The State of Play is a conference that brings together people from the game industry and academia to discuss legal and conceptual issues in the development of MMORPGs like TSO and Second [...]
Full StoryErotic Dance Club Opens in Lieu of Controversial Stanford Mega-Mall
The twists and turns surrounding the Stanford simulator in the past weeks have made it hard for us to keep up, but here is a recap. Originally, Tank Levy and One Song of the Associates bought up 2/3 of Stanford to build a mega-mall. This led to all sorts of conflagrations with residents of the [...]
Full StoryBaku Crashed Again! Techsols Take Credit
In the continuing war between One Song’s group, The Associates, and the groups on Jessie, in particular the WWIIOLers and the TechSols, it was the TechSols’ turn to avenge One Song’s attack on the Reichstag. According to an anonymous Techsol member pictured below, he didn’t “know” how One Song’s home simulator crashed again today but [...]
Full StoryDid WWIIOLers Crash Baku?
Hours after Cyanide Leviathan and Jackee Satyr donned their terrorist duds and lag bombed One Song’s club in Baku, I received word from someone that the entire sim of Baku was missing. I went to the site, and sure enough, there where Baku used to be, was a big hole in the SL grid. As [...]
Full StoryBugged! Mapping project bugging Private Sims, Collecting Data w/o permission
Prong Thetan, owner of a private sim and CEO of the SimCast Project (a medieval themed PvP game to be opened in SL soon), was working with his security guy today, when they came across a small bright orange ball streaming error code. As soon as they began examining it another user showed up, explained [...]
Full StoryGriefer Destroys 6 Private Sims
Centre Ville, Anshe’s market sim, after the terraforming attack (Photo by Planet Mars) As reported in the SL Forums, last night a griefer flew over several private sims and destroyed the ones with open land edit by repeated terraforming. Unfortunately SL does not allow users to grant specific individual land editing priviledges, thus repeating a [...]
Full StoryOne Song and Tank split, Tank booted from The Associates
Part 1: One Song?s side. Well, no sooner do we post father Callahan?s interview with Tank Levy, than Tank gets booted from The Associates (and because of the interview!). Tank will have to proceed on his own with the big mall development now. I first got the news when One Song summoned me to his [...]
Full StoryFrancis Chung: Hugs and Guns
Kudos to Hamlet Linden over on New World Notes, for his two part story on the legendary SL scripter, Francis Chung, who not only has made the best guns in SL (the Seburo Compact-Exploder) but now has made the best hugging animation too! Erm, as you all know, I?m not down with hugging, but I?ve [...]
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