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OK, The Simulated Soviet Union in Alphaville
For reasons that mystify even this veteran reporter, a group of disaffected alumni of the Alphaville Government have formed a new organization in Alphaville to challenge Mr-President, and have called themselves The Simulated Soviet Union (SSU). And wouldn?t you know it: the ?brains? behind this operation are none other than former AVG Press officer Ian, [...]
Full StoryInterview with virtual erotica publisher, Marilyn Murphy
Marilyn Murphy is the publisher and force of nature behind Players Magazine in Second Life. After I contacted her about the possibility of an interview she summoned me to her mansion where I was greeted by a scripted message bot called ?son of man.? I found Ms. Murphy holding court, with two lovely and intelligent [...]
Full StoryEditorial: It?s Time for Mr-President to Resign
With recent revelations that AVG officer Chad Thomas voted up to 200 times in the AVG Presidential elections, David Pierce has filed a class action lawsuit vs. Mr. Thomas. We believe that this is a classical case of an underling taking a hit for the party that is ultimately responsible. In part one of this [...]
Full StoryDavid Pierce Files virtual Class Action Suit Against AVGs Chad Thomas
Several days ago in a post in the comments section of this blog, Chad Thomas of the Alphaville Government admitted to using proxy servers to vote over 200 times for Mr-President in the now infamous Alphaville Elections between Mr-President and Ashley Richardson. Now, David Pierce has filed what what may be the worlds first virtual [...]
Full StoryJason Sim on Oprah: AVG Elections were rigged!
In the latest round of charges and countercharges on the scandal that will not die but which manages to get murkier by the day, Jason Sim has taken his charges of election-rigging to the Oprah Show in Alphaville. Following is a transcript from the show, which we have received courtesy of Ian at the Alphaville [...]
Full StoryEditorial: Ashley?s Stroke of Genius
While there is much gnashing of teeth about this over on The Alphaville Gazette, the Second Life Herald can only but praise Ashley Richardson for enlisting Eve and Mr. President Bradley (along with anisette) as judges in the finals of her recent beauty contest. Although both Eve (formerly many of the Merrill sisters, Voleur, and [...]
Full StoryJason Sim to appear on Oprah Tonight!
Oprah Winfrey of Alphaville has informed us that her guest tonight at 10 PM Eastern will be Jason Sim, who has recently reignited the controversy over the Alphaville Presidential Elections with his claims that he had first-hand knowledge of election-fixing practices that led to Mr. President?s defeat of Ashley Richardson. Given the incendiary nature of [...]
Full StoryAre Social MMORPGs Doomed to Fail?
Well, are they? The answer given by Randy Farmer in this very interesting paper appears to be …well…maybe. Not good news. This is coming from someone with development and gaming background in The Palace, TSO, Second Life, and Habitat. Among his comments about Second Life: “I loved it when I was unemployed.” There is also [...]
Full StoryWired News Investigates EA’s Ineptitude with MMOs
Daniel Terdiman, who broke the story of the Alphaville Elections into the infosphere not long ago has recently written a story on the string of failures that EA is racking up with online games. Casualties now include Motor City Online, Earth and Beyond, Ultima X, a scrubbed plan for a Harry Potter Game, and of [...]
Full StoryBombshell! JC Soprano retires from TSO, but confesses ALL on the way out.
In a resignation letter released to the Second Life Herald, Mafia Boss JC Soprano has announced his resignation from TSO (speculating that EA will shut it down after racking up some Christmas sales) and has begun to form a guild in Star Wars Galaxies. Of particular interest will be the purported full confession which JC [...]
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