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Alphaville Herald Metaplace Newsroom Makeover Party
Dance on the skeptical dance floor — chill in the dystopia analysis area by Pixeleen Mistral Friday, May 22 at 7:00 pm EDT (4:00 pm PDT), the Alphaville Herald will celebrate the completion of our new Metaplace office space. Join us for the party as we re-invent new media journalism in the metaverse at http://www.metaplace.com/AlphavilleHerald/play. [...]
Full StoryMetaplace Opens Beta Starts Now
Raph Koster opens the doors after avatars run wild at closed beta party Wednesday by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk "We are opening the beta TOMORROW MORNING" shouted Raph, and I prayed that my screen grab was going to be fast enough – held my breath – and immediately saved the historic picture to [...]
Full StoryMetaplace Gift Economy Balloons – Subscription Fees Loom
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Adz is the lucky recipient of three gift balloons Gift balloons and subscription fee discussions have appeared in Metaplace during the last week – signs of an impending move to an open beta and broader access to the web-browser based world construction kit. Last week, the game gods of [...]
Full StoryIt’s 4/20 — Do You Know Where Your Medical Marijuana Is?
Part time griefer and journalist advocates for medical marijuana By Doctor Ocularis, Herald Medical Desk photo stolen from Metro Spirit Today being April 20 (aka 4/20) it is only fitting that we link to a story about weed. In this case we link to a story by Joshua McCracken in the Augusta Georgia Metro Spirit. [...]
Full StoryLunar Raid’s Video Metaplace World Reviews
by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media desk Pirates, ponies, and frogger-style roadkill can be seen at the Metaplace Insider, where Lunar Raid has just released his second video MP world review – more examples of the sorts of worlds that can be created in Metaplace and run on standard web browsers. After an intense negotiating session, [...]
Full StoryWill Nomadic Furs Nest in Metaplace?
FurCity under construction by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A few intrepid scouts for the furry community are now investigating Raph Koster’s still-in-closed-beta Metaplace platform – despite the very limited options for customization of the avatars. While personally customized avatars are presumably to be available in the future, MP worlds currently can override a player’s [...]
Full StoryBrowser Based 3D Worlds: Are the Pieces Finally Falling in Place?
by Urizenus Sklar, Contributing Editor Raph Koster is expressing a kind of jaded been-there-done-that-saw-it-coming attitude about what he is seeing at the Game Developers Conference this year, and I’m not surprised. One year you are the crazy nut describing the future to an audience of twelve other nuts, and the next year the room is [...]
Full StoryHerald Invite Key Opens Metaplace Closed Beta
by Idoru Wellman, staff writer The game gods at Metaplace have provided the Herald with a powerful spell – a secret key – able to open the invitation-only closed-beta doors to Raph Koster's latest effort – until the magic of the invite key wears off from overuse. Enter the invite key "ALPHAVILLE" here – then [...]
Full StoryAnd the Metaplace Hype Cycle Begins
BBC in the pool early with fanboi hype Special to the Herald, from Urizenus Sklar on the Herald Yacht Now the BBC has joined the Metaplace hype with this story. One wishes that traditional media would leaven their hype with a bit of critical discussion at the outset. That might help save them from feeling [...]
Full StoryThe Graphics on Metaplace are Crap! Or maybe not…
Utopika World by The Allseeing Eye, staff reporter While Pixeleen and Uri sit in Metaplace and marvel at its egalitarian tools and its democratic Terms of Service and its we-are-of-the-web philosophy, I've been wondering about something else. Given that it's more or less flash based or whatever, aren't the graphics going to be craptastic? That's [...]
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