Archive for 'News from Other MMOs'

Open Life Users Banned from Second Life?

Running outlawed clients could end in tears by Miley Stewart, Open Life correspondent According to numerous reports, users of the OpenSim-basedOpen Life are receiving IP-bans from Second Life. Multiple residents havereportedly been unable to access Second Life after joining Open Life. Thereason for such bans is currently unknown, as Linden Lab could not be reachedfor [...]

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WeeWorld WeeMee Wears Justin Timberlake’s Wardrobe

by Sigmund Leominster In my last excursion into the world of adolescents and ‘tweens, I became a new avatar, Pixeleen, and let loose my inner Barbie at the Barbie Girls™ virtual world. My latest trip was as a not-so-undercover reporter into WeeWorld, a virtual chat room populated by thousands of two-dimensional characters called WeeMees. Sigmund [...]

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Open Sims – Back to the Brave New World

by Alessandra Narayan   Alessandra's look in OpenLife Joining the new Open Sims is like starting all over Second Life, which means a ‘noobie’ figure, difficulty in getting it presentable – especially when you’re only allowed to change it after getting a new shape – and various problems, which now seem so distant in SL. [...]

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I’m a Barbie® Girl, in a Barbie World

Daddy? Can I have your credit card? by Sigmund Leominster Barbie Girl Home: VIP girls get SuperB Chat™ then shop for clothes and funky new furni As a kid, I was never wanted to play with dolls. As a boy, calling them “Action Figures” didn’t make it any more likely. At one time, I’m pretty [...]

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Red Light Center Exposed — Part 4: Bringing It Home

Red Light Center neko confused by SL interface, pay-as-you-go and lag a concern for GoreansThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer I’m standing in a virtual world, populated by people who like virtual sex or at least virtual relationships. The question in my mind is, why aren’t they in [...]

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Red Light Center Exposed — Part 3: Unhitched

Red Light Center leather clad dommes, furries hard to findThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer I know everyone has been dying to find out more about the kinkier side of things in Red Light Center. Believe me, so do I. Tracking down the kinkier side of things in [...]

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HiPiHi Open Beta Begins

“Heavenly Duke Creating Objects” era gives way to “Dawn of Society” by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Can the HiPiHi liberation army be far behind? Cindy Jiang tells us in a HiPiHi press release that HiPiHi today announced the beginning of their public beta testing phase with the release of the “Dawn of Society” version [...]

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Red Light Center Exposed — Part 2: Vanilla

Sex with robots – while keeping your shoes on — the discrete charm of a Red Light Center VIP accountThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer heading to the space bedroom Eventually, I discovered what I could about Red Light Center (RLC) as a basic member and it was [...]

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Red Light Center Exposed — Part 1

Free basic account for clothed platonic friendship – VIP accounts for naked pixel-sexThe Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life by Jessica Holyoke, virtual world explorer Red Light Center (RLC) is a virtual world that touts itself as a socialized meeting place where you can make friends and even have sex with them. Because some residents [...]

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Pixel Clothes, Virtual Fashion Summit, IMVU, and HiPiHi

The Celebrity Trollop interview by Pixeleen Mistral, fashionable reporter IMVU fashionista Recently, Celebrity Trollop took time from her busy schedule for an interview about the pixel clothes scene in SL, IMVU, HiPiHi and elsewhere. Celebrity also mentioned what promises to be a very interesting event – The Virtual Fashion Summit – a conference for virtual [...]

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