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Second LIFE Magazine tops 1K in-world circulation
In an important event for in-MMORPG publishers, the second issue of the free monthly publication, Second LIFE Magazine, topped a circulation of 1000 (figures based on copies taken from distribution stands throughout Second Life). With over 65 auto-updating distribution stands throughout the game, Editor Lorelei Patel believes that circulation could top 2000 for issue 3. [...]
Full StoryMy life as an exotic dancer in SL
By Miravoir Psaltry(Previously published in Players Magazine, vol. 7) [In this story, our friend Mir Psaltry takes up virtual exotic dancing, and gives her readers the skinny, so to speak, on one of the more lucrative professions in SL. As a bonus Mir gave Uri a demonstration of her moves (for photos and research purposes [...]
Full StoryBaku Crashed Again! Techsols Take Credit
In the continuing war between One Song’s group, The Associates, and the groups on Jessie, in particular the WWIIOLers and the TechSols, it was the TechSols’ turn to avenge One Song’s attack on the Reichstag. According to an anonymous Techsol member pictured below, he didn’t “know” how One Song’s home simulator crashed again today but [...]
Full StoryDid WWIIOLers Crash Baku?
Hours after Cyanide Leviathan and Jackee Satyr donned their terrorist duds and lag bombed One Song’s club in Baku, I received word from someone that the entire sim of Baku was missing. I went to the site, and sure enough, there where Baku used to be, was a big hole in the SL grid. As [...]
Full StoryFists of Ham part II: The Lindens
So last night I was taking a newbie friend shopping in SL, and even dropped 1K Lindens on a nice new buff skin for my avi, when some idiot that I did not know started firing off a bump gun. Well fine, lots of noise and smoke, but no push effect, so no harm to [...]
Full StoryBugged! Mapping project bugging Private Sims, Collecting Data w/o permission
Prong Thetan, owner of a private sim and CEO of the SimCast Project (a medieval themed PvP game to be opened in SL soon), was working with his security guy today, when they came across a small bright orange ball streaming error code. As soon as they began examining it another user showed up, explained [...]
Full StoryDon’t Call me a Pussy! One Song Attacks WWIIOLers HQ
The Reichstag burns again, as One Song raises The Associates Corp Flag. Just when you think it is going to calm down on the Jessie/Stanford border something flares up — like a building! Incensed that some WWIIOLers called the associates pussies, One Song staged a largely symbolic firebombing attack on their Reichstag-inspired HQ, raising The [...]
Full StoryEditorial: If Lindens won’t help, then Land Owners Unite!
By Prong Thetan It is easy to say that the recent sim demolitions were the land owners fault, but I look at it from a slightly different perspective, because I am a land owner. If Linden Labs provided the necessary tools for land owners to properly secure our land, then I could see some validity [...]
Full StoryGriefer Destroys 6 Private Sims
Centre Ville, Anshe’s market sim, after the terraforming attack (Photo by Planet Mars) As reported in the SL Forums, last night a griefer flew over several private sims and destroyed the ones with open land edit by repeated terraforming. Unfortunately SL does not allow users to grant specific individual land editing priviledges, thus repeating a [...]
Full StoryOne Song and Tank split, Tank booted from The Associates
Part 1: One Song?s side. Well, no sooner do we post father Callahan?s interview with Tank Levy, than Tank gets booted from The Associates (and because of the interview!). Tank will have to proceed on his own with the big mall development now. I first got the news when One Song summoned me to his [...]
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