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Teenie Grid Now Open for Headaches
Teens line up to join SL’s new “Teen Grid” Well, the teen grid is open for business. See this announcement from Robin Linden for details.We are taking bets on when we get to say “we told you so.” And Tony will get to say “I told you so” too.
Full StorySOE Wakes Up! When will EA?
The big big story today is not the new Pope, but a decision by Sony Online Entertainment to begin offering a player-to-player market — called Station Exchange — for the sale of in game assets. As usual, the good Mr. Terdiman is on top of the story in wired.com and the bearded ones freely opine [...]
Full StoryThere ya go again
Our friend Daniel Terdiman is reporting in wired.com that the parent company of There — Forterra Systems — has spun off the social MMO There. A couple of execs have purchased the IP rights and plan on hiring new tech and customer support staff. Our fearless overlord King Philip says that this is good news, [...]
Full StoryTo Telehubs Like Moths to Flame
by Walker Spaight Will the Grid soon find itself teleporting into the middle of the holiest of holy sites on Second Life‘s new northern continent? Formerly inhabited by moth-worshipping stilt-dwellers, the continent recently dubbed “Mothball” by one wag has so far been free of telehubs. But if one Linden has his finger on the pulse, [...]
Full StorySneak-Peak at Second Life’s Future Rendering Engine – ’2.0′
This snapshot of Second Life’s unreleased 2.0 Rendering Engine was leaked to the Herald Ben Linden yesterday posted to the SL Forums 9 screenshots showing the current progress of Second Life’s future rendering engine. These screenshots had been scattered and hidden throughout the grid as part of a sadistic treasure-hunt but were quickly recovered by [...]
Full StoryIn Memory of Candace Bolter, aka Kale
Candace Bolter (1978-2005) This past Monday, Herald co-founder and legal editor Candace Bolter (better known by her TSO name of Kale) passed away after a battle with a string of illnesses ranging from cancer to heart disease to lupus. She was 27 years old.
Full StorySquags Takes a Break
Uri at anInfoNet terminal, network developed and maintained by Squagmire Stravinsky Squagmire Stravinsky, well known instructor at the Cloud City Campus and architect and manager of InfoNet, is standing down from operations. Citing griefers, demanding and disrespectful students, and a failure of promised help to materialize in the construction of Cloud City, Squags has said [...]
Full StoryThe Birth, Death, Release and Rebirth of the Torley Threnody Melody
By Neal Stewart Torley Torgeson Jnr, daughter of Torley Torgeson Snr, alt of Torley Wong, recently announced the release of 2.7GB and 16 hours of 230 complete, high-quality MP3 tracks – entirely conceived, galumphed and outgrabed by the uffish Torster. They are released openly and freely into the Creative Commons and the LSD-inspired bat-country of [...]
Full StoryGame Review: “Settlers of Second Life: Catan it colonize SL gaming?”
Pirate Cotton reviews the new Second Life strategy board-game ‘Settlers of Second Life’. Pirate is an opinionated SL blogger (http://www.tinypirate.com) with an interest in gaming and Second Life culture. He brings his considerable experience as co-builder of Dark Life – Second Life’s first MMORPG (recently featured front-page at secondlife.com) – and creator of the ‘Game [...]
Full StoryNuptials: Arjan Templar and Casandra Jackson
Arjan Templar wed Casandra Jackson February 14 at10:00AM at their home in Voti. The ceremony wasofficiated by Till Stirling, Maid of Honor was YanneProudfoot and Best Man was Lars Cruyff.
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