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The game within the game III: Simcast gets crafty
In previous posts we have covered the development of the simcast project — a medieval themed D&D type PvP game being built on two sims (Simcast and Bedford) within Second Life. In addition to the ususal beating on players and monsters with weapons there is going to be a fairly robust crafting system that includes [...]
Full StoryStreaming the Prez Debate in SL — sort of
Hamlet Linden has a story in New World Notes about tonight’s presidential debate that is catching air time in the blogosphere. Some folks are gonna stream the debate into the game via NPR, hang out, yak about it, and in Hamlet’s case blog it (yes another Linden sucked into the blogspace vortex). I guess that’s [...]
Full StoryPaging Kale: Cory Linden floats proposal for new SL permissions system
Cory Linden has joined the army of lemmings marching into the bottomless pit that is a personal blog, and while he predicts that the we scribes at the Herald will mourn this development, the fact of the matter is that we now accept it as inevitable fact of life — like flatulence, fornication, and death. [...]
Full StoryOne Song Wins Boxingmania! But not without Controversy?
By Gina Fatale The results from Friday?s Boxingmania at SLB in the One Song vs Tank Levy match are in, and as I predicted, the winner was One Song. The night started off with alot of trash talking between the two rivals and jumping in on the One-Song-hater band wagon was none other than one [...]
Full StorySooner or later, everyone has their own blog
Well this is the worst news imaginable for Second Lifers. Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden, your CEO and spiritual leader) has started his own blog. I mean its not that he doesn’t have interesting ideas, but… Dude! Blogs are a time sink! Run away!!!! Oh that, and the premise of the first entry strikes me [...]
Full StorySL modifies Terms of Service and EULA (sort of)
Well, at least they let us know when then introduce a new agreement. The new TOS seems like a lot of legal CYA without much thought to forging serious business partnerships. For example, how much are *you* willing to invest in a platform that keeps this clause in its TOS? ?7.1 Termination. Linden has the [...]
Full StoryBlood Fued: One Song and Tank Levy to settle their score in Second Life Boxing
By Gina Fatale Most Second Life veterans are already familiar with Second Life Boxing (SLB). Run by Tommy Rampal and David Jacobs, these two men combine boxing and WWE style matches, bringing some high octane entertainment to SL. With the nearing completion of their new arena/mall/amusement complex the two impresarios wanted to have a boxing [...]
Full StoryThe Other Way to Run a Forum
Thanks to Toy for passing along this tidbit. While the Stratics Mods are busy falling overthemselves threatening to ban people that provide links to sites that link to sites that link to sites that sell game currency, Robin Linden (an EA escapee, btw) offers the following breathtakingly simple and sane policy for the SL Forums: [...]
Full StoryTwo Parties while the Wizzards work late
Was a busy night in SL last night. Two club grand openings: One Song’s new Club Erotic, and the new Club Elite on Elite Island. But no sooner did I get done doing my paparazzi thing at those events but I was summoned back to the SimCast dev tower. Seems the latest SL update induced [...]
Full StorySecond Skin, part 5: Mistress Midnight
By Miravoir Psaltry Believe it or not this is the 5th SL skin artist we’ve talked to. Previously in this series of interviews we spoke with Chip Midnight, Santana Lumiere, and CherryBomb Hare and Kathmandu Gilman. In this installment we speak with Mistress Midnight, best known for her elegant and sensual goth skins.
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