Archive for 'News from Other MMOs'
Game Over: There.com Virtual World Ends March 9, 2010
Players point to pedo and paintball moderation as possible causes
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
there gone
The PG-oriented virtual world There.com is to be closed March 9, a victim of hard economic times, according to There CEO Michael Wilson’s announcement. An FAQ at the site states that the company is buying back virtual currency from players [...]
EVEonline Player Visits Second Life
Killing time while EVEonline is EVEoffline
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Last night I ran into poopmaster Oh – an ex-Second Lifer who now spends quality time in EVEOnline. While poopmaster Oh waited for EVEoffline to become EVEonline again – the game had crashed – we discussed the relative merits of the worlds, the charm of [...]
HRH Princess of Yaximixche Starts 90 Day Virtual World Tour
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
The Princess of Yaximixche is embarking on an ambitious tour of virtual worlds beyond Second Life from December through February 2010. The tour marks Her Royal Highness's first major public appearances since failing gravely ill during the summer of 2009, according to the Royal Press office.
Over the [...]
Korea Fails Second Life – Lab To Offer English Classes
Lab curtails Korean language support, closes Korean operations
by Pixeleen Mistral, International Affairs desk
The Korea Herald reports that Linden Lab has abandoned its Korean localized web site and viewer after allowing its contract with Barunson Games Corp. to lapse. Barunson Games had been contracted to operate Second Life's Korean service in October 2007, but apparently found [...]
Watch “Another Perfect World” Documentary in Metaplace
by NuMedia Econobot
Another Perfect World – a documentary investigating the quest to construct digital utopias – premiers in the United States Thursday September 10 at noon PDT in Metaplace at The Stage. For our readers' convenience, the Metaplace space for The Stage is embedded below.
showtime: Thursday Sept 10, 12 noon PDT
The film includes interviews with [...]
Facebook Reaches Beyond the Grave
Dead unlikely to confirm friendships
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnngggggggggggg. The pointer on my irony meter smacked against the max irony peg – hard – and wobbled slightly backwards with a nasty permanent bend. I had just logged into Facebook – a leading contender for the coveted corporate crown in a race to package and [...]
Basement Dwellers of WoW — Lives and Loves On Film!
Second Skin documentary online through August 13by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Raids, addiction, online love, and real life meet-ups of WoW players are featured in Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza’s award winning 1998 2008 documentary “Second Skin” – now screening online through August 13th via the SnagFilms.com distribution network.
While much of the content covers [...]
Matrix Online Refugees Welcomed to Second Life
Satin Tigress transgender neo-burlesque club and Catzi Radio — a cyberpunk <3 match
by Timothy Morpork
The MMORPG Matrix Online closed on July 31, 2009. Though primarily a combat game,players developed into a community that socialized in cyberpunkthemed clubs within the game. With their virtual world closed, theyneed a new virtual space in which to gather. [...]
WoW Night Elf Hunters Risking Their Lives for TwitPics?
TweetCraft Twitter client for World of Warcraft could lead to game bans
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
World of Warcraft players are not exactly rushing to break their immersion with the TweetCraft in-game Twitter client, despite Jenna Wortham’s New York Times story TweetCraft Casts Spell on WoW Players, Twitterers. A visit to the TweetCraft download statistics [...]
Avatars & Humans Unite to Fight Facebook
Facebook group to petition for avatar identities on Facebook
by Pixeleen Mistral, News Idoru
A sadness tinged with arousal – Facebook is already an MMORPG
The grand tradition of self-referential emergent behavior in social software continues as Facebook users have formed a group to petition the Facebook gods to allow avatar and pseudonym personalities to live free from [...]
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