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Go North, Young Av
by Walker Spaight At long last, intrepid explorer Magellan Linden‘s intrepid explorations have borne fruit. A new land mass has appeared in the northern reaches of the Grid we call Second Life.
Full StoryWelcome Area Nuked! Lindens Blame Teh Herald.
by Urizenus Sklar and Gina Fatale So there I was, living the life of leisure that befits a media mogul of my stature, sipping Cristal and keeping track of my investments when I received a story from Herald reporter Gina Fatale. “Why do you trouble me with these trifles?,” I asked, and then Gina explained [...]
Full StoryThe Cory Details
Looks like today is gonna be hype Cory day. There are notes from Cory’s talk at the Serious Games Summit, up on the Wonderland blog, and some of the statistics are interesting (if they are widely known, well, I didn’t know them): Examples: Last month: 20,000 people used SL. 50,000distinct items were sold. There were [...]
Full StoryNow and Then
For those interested in the history of the Second Life landmass we know as the Grid, Olympia Rebus flags a fascinating project by Essence Lumin, in which Essence has posted a snapshot of each and every sim on the Grid as they appeared a year ago, in March 2004. Why Olympia doesn’t include a link [...]
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 StoryUnreal:SL Reviewed
an in-game game review by Koden Farber Everyone has one of those days when you just want to shoot something. On days like this a good first person shooter comes in handy. Unreal: Second Life is the Bedazzle Team’s attempt at FPS in second life. The project itself is is reportedly coming to a close [...]
Full StorySL Ruined Again! This Week, Tringo did it.
Hammie Linden has a very nice piece, entitled THE TRAGICS OF TRINGO, which gives us the opening salvo in the inevitable handwringing war over Tringo. No doubt the phenomenon of Tringo represents a change of SL’s culture, but exactly what hasn’t? According to my notes, all of the following have killed SL: The arrival of [...]
Full StorySweatshop Discovered in Second Life Mieto Sim
Do not meddle in the affairs of Gnome Factory Owners, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Pictured: Owner Peter Guillaume. By Neal Stewart Mieto (Mature) (176, 6) — Second Life citizens have been shocked to discover that an illegal sweatshop has been operating for several weeks in the Mieto sim. The so-called ‘Gnome [...]
Full StoryBonnano vs. Bellini: Round 2
by Marsellus Wallace The Heads of the Bellini Family The discussion of family hoppers, traditional Mafia values and real life versus virtual life combine in this follow up to the battle between the Bellini family formally of The Sims Online and the Bonanno family.
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