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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 [...]
Full StoryFacebook 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 [...]
Full StoryBasement 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 [...]
Full StoryMatrix 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 [...]
Full StoryWoW 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 [...]
Full StoryAvatars & 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 [...]
Full Story“Secret” NDA for Huxley: The Dystopia Leaked!!!
Shhhhhh… don't tell anyone by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk now being translated for your convenience Huxley is a long anticipated Korean bloodfog-oriented MMO now accepting signups for a closed beta in north america. The trailers for the game include just barely enough cybergrrrls with guns to make the first person shooter look interesting, and [...]
Full StoryFree Realms Not All That Free
Creating demand for Station Cash spacebux by Suzie Skybeam You'll have to pay to experience the Pro Chef Square Shard “What is Free Realms? A free online world where you rule!” said that banner on the web site. Recalling similar bold claims from Second Life (“Second Life is a 3D online digital world imagined, [...]
Full StoryFive Reasons Why Free Realms Kind of Rocks
Butthurt divas of Second Life appear as NPCs in Free Realms by Tenshi Vielle Last weekend when I signed in to Free Realms, I cringed upon logon. How fruitcake could a game get? It looked like IMVU and World of Warcraft had a drunken night of debauchery and spawned some kind of freak. The more [...]
Full StoryFrom EVE: More TITANic Fail
Another $10,000 USD Down the Toilet by Urizenus Sklar, at the He's Everywhere Desk. Recently we showed you the epic joy that goons and other humanoids can feel at the (permitted) destruction of $10,000 in assets in EVE Online. It involved the recording of the first destruction of a Titan. Forgot? – here is the [...]
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