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Coming soon to an MMORPG near you! The Gambino Family.
In this interview, the Notorious TSO Godfather Tony Gambino takes us back to the founding of the Gambino family in TSO (the first Mafia in TSO, he insists). He talks about his disappointment with how his family has weakened during his sabbatical from online gaming, but promises big things for the family ? including big [...]
Full StoryInterview with Second Life CEO, Philip Rosedale
When Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden) stopped by Uri’s pad for an interview, little did Uri expect that Phil would be in drag, carrying a rose and a Seburo Compact Exploder automatic weapon. Phil quickly slipped into his Cowboy Roy avatar and the discussion got serious, as the bad boy CEO and bad boy cyber-journalist [...]
Full StoryMiss Alphaville Contest Narrows Field to 6 Finalists
Sore loser Chastity’ complains after failing to make the cut. Our friend and former AVG presidential candidate Ashley Richardson has taken a sabbatical from politics but is back in Alphaville, helping to run the Miss Alphaville Competition. Last night the field of contenders was whittled down to the following 6: ‘Sugar, Nataleigh, DJ Lizziey Ray, [...]
Full StoryPhil Rosedale on CNN
There is a nice interview with Linden Lab CEO Phil Rosedale (aka Phil Linden) on CNN. It lacks the drama of CNN reporter Bruce Burkhardt visiting an Alphaville cyberbrothel, but at least money seems to be involved. Here’s the link: http://secondlife.com/movies/SL_CNN.wmv
Full StoryCreation vs. Craft, Ownership vs. Exploitation
In an interesting essay entitled “Living on the Edge: Digital Worlds which Embrace the Real World“, Cory Ondrejka (aka Cory Linden) offers some interesting observtions about (1) the distinction between games which allow users to craft vs those which allow creativity, and (2) the importance of extendending real world property rights in the latter case. [...]
Full StoryMeet Alphaville’s Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Interviews Viva T and Celestie (then Barbara Walters) In this interview we talk to sim Oprah Winfrey, who puts on the Oprah Winfrey show in Alphaville (although strictly adhering to a flexible — i.e. chaotic — programming schedule). We ask Oprah about some of her shows, and some of the obstacles that she has [...]
Full Storysoftware will teach computers to read lips
-humdog The MIT Technology Review reports that computer scientist Guangyou Xu of Tsinghua University in Beijing has developed software that enables a computer to learn to read facial movements, particularly those of the lips. It is hoped that this software will enable game avatars to become more expressive and vivid.
Full StoryGoing to School with the AVH
Why go to college you ask? Until now there really wasn’t a reason, but now you can go there and study up on the exploits of Urizenus and his muckraking, madcap reporters, The Phantom, Humdog, IP Litium, Pat the Rat, Dana Grove, Deep Max, and all the rest. So far the Alphaville Herald is now [...]
Full StoryNews From DG: Rival Gang War Continues…
By Dana Grove LLC continues to be the most powerful gang in Dan’s Grove. While the Triad Mafia is slowly growing, it is having difficulties keeping up with the numbers in LLC. Once again the leader of Triad, Bob Busch (aka Daniel Alfredson) money house Mad Cash, was hit with another trashing, this time by [...]
Full StoryWhy do Griefers Grief?
There is a really interesting discussion of this topic over on Terra Nova. Can’t say I agree with most of it, but there was a really nice taxonomy of motivations for griefing by Chek Yang Foo, which follows.
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