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A Chat in the Desert
Cooperative gameplay, Egyptian-style Andrew Tepper, pharaoh of Egypt (or at least of the massively multiplayer online world of A Tale in the Desert) has something say, and he wants you to listen. He also wants you to get in his game, and is re-opening free trial accounts to anyone who’s interested, even if you’ve already [...]
Full StorySex, Fame and PC Baangs
Games journo Jim Rossignol recently traveled to Korea, and has brought back the first really in-depth story about PC gaming culture in that country, which he wrote for PC Gamer (UK) but which is currently available on Jim’s own site. For anyone even marginally interested in the future of gaming and virtual worlds, it’s a [...]
Full StorySix Swell Sick Sim Sex Sites
Our pal at Terra Nova, Ren Renolds, was kind enought to collate the new virtual platforms that are dedicated to cyber. Yowzers, I’m begining to lose count! But for the record we have… Heavenly Bodies Naughty America: The Game Rapture Online Red Light District Spend the Night 3Feelonline Sociolotron (actually already out of Beta) And [...]
Full StoryLast Call: Asheron’s Call II to Close Doors on Dec. 30
Clive Thompson has a good article in Wired on the impending close of Asheron’s Call II. It’s a tough business, what can I say.
Full StoryNaughty America: the Game. OK, now who needs SL?
Yes, its true, there is now an online game that has latched onto the essence of Second Life and built their platform and marketed it with one thing in mind: Cyber. Called Naughty America: the Game, it seems more upfront about the role of cyber than either TSO or SL, but seems tamer than Sociolotron [...]
Full StoryA Merry Denominational Xmas to You!
Happy Hannukah! Joyous Kwanzaa! Lovely Diwali! Have a nice Ramadan! Merrrrrry Christmas!!!!1! That’s what Blizzard Entertainment, the corporate cog behind World of Warcraft, is saying to their 4 million-plus players this holiday season. A new holiday patch released this week adds some fun new content to the game, in the form of a big Christmas [...]
Full StoryThe Furni Whores of Habbo Hotel
I must live under a rock. So many scandals and incidents of elemental weirdness manage to just pass me by. Yet, now and then I get a chance to play catch-up. Last night it was in an underground dive bar known as the 8-Ball, and a kindly grad student told me about the “furni whores” [...]
Full StoryUnleash Your Inner Hordeling
If you’ve grown tired of the burdens that accompany membership in that most august group of Second Life residents, the Feted Inner Core, now there’s a solution. Just VW-hop on over to World of Warcraft and join the Feted Inner Horde, a new guild on WoW’s Lightninghoof server composed entirely of Second Life residents, complete [...]
Full StoryEVE Extra: Deep-Space Outpost Goes Public in $8,100 Deal
It’s no mistake that EVE Online‘s player organizations are known as corporations. Though Second Life has seen a number of start-ups that have required resident stakeholding and investment, a recent IPO by EVE corp Interstellar Starbase Syndicate has set a new mark for virtual-world business dealings, having raised 36 billion in InterStellar Kredits, the equivalent [...]
Full StoryNude Skin Patch Disrobes WoW Toons!
Image stolen from mmorgy.com In an important development, it seems that a cousin of the nude skin patch that had TSO Sims dropping their drawers all over EA’s servers has now made it to massively multiplayer hack-fest World of Warcraft. The recently launched MMOrgy.com, which takes as its laudable goal the chronicling of all things [...]
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