Archive for 'News from Second Life'
New Game – Sentinel 2.0
by Onder Skall I’ve received an urgent transmission and need your help! Beware the pink pony-tailed menace! BEGIN TRANSMISSION 1 (07.31.07). S.O.S. – S.O.S. – IBMCODESTATION is breached. Infiltrator appears to be horrible pink beastwith devastating pony-tails. Our defender, SENTINEL, is defeated –broken in four and scattered across Second Life. [See attached movie.]You are our [...]
Full StorySecond Life Leaks Into Real Life
PNs protest Furries – Furries break PN’s signs – Los Angeles FOX 11 News Investigates LULZ and internet hate machine by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk PNs protest furry yiffing at Anthrocon 2007 Signs of trouble continue to mount, as scientists and engineers struggle to keep real life – or RL – functioning, despite an [...]
Full StoryNew York Times, Dream Houses, and SL
by Espresso Saarinen Shopping in SL is not quite like RL Yesterday’s New York Times had a very positive article about Second Life, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/garden/09second.html that helps explain the appeal of the metaverse to an audience unfamiliar with the concept. Instead of sex and gambling, or the mega-corporate flopping while trying to duplicate RL marketing in [...]
Full StoryMercury :: Couture
by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista Mercury’s newest design and the conclusion to their summer line: Minnie. Mercury Couture, Second Life’s newest debuted couture house, held their first show yesterday at 7pm SLT. It went smoothly – and that isn’t counting the less-than-five hours that they had to prepare the show at an entirely new venue. [...]
Full StorySamarkand RP Kicks Off
by Onder Skall I caught one of the kickoff events at Samarkand saturday night. (Here’s the SLurl.)The place is gorgeous, the role players really and truly role play, andI got pictures. It’s good to wear my “games reporter” hat sometimes!(Even if it has holes in it from the horns.) Here’s a quick summary from the [...]
Full StoryI Like ‘Em Big & Black
A Black woman’s advice for men on skins by Aaliyah Munro, sex/love/advice expert I’m the type of girl who likes hard, vein-riddled, wall-eroding, oh-so real looking…muscles. A big dick would be nice as well. You know what I mean – I want the sweat laden muscles of Gor, minus the barbaric requisite, or the cut [...]
Full StoryGinko Financial’s End-Game
L$200,000,000 in obligations, no liquid assets — queue up and wait by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk get in the Ginko queue Sunday afternoon, GinkoTec and Ginko Financial honcho Hinoserm Rebus sent a notecard to customers who have deposited Linden space bucks in the role-play bank known as Ginko Financial. The notecard and announcement at [...]
Full StoryTrouble in Elfville
Girl elf leader turns male — leader’s ex-partner banned for complaining by BB Balderdash, Elf Affairs desk When Armandi Goodliffe was a girl, she partnered with Camo Camus When you think the land of the elves, you think of peaceful and quiet hills and dales, where pixie and faeries dance and the elven make their [...]
Full StoryFormer JLU Member Speaks Out
anti-griefer Justice League Unlimited threatens privacy and act like griefers by Nikola Shirakawa ex-JLU member The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which – Animal Farm Many people on SL have run into this [...]
Full StoryGinko Financial’s AVIX Buyout Blocked
Cash crunch and opaque accounting limits Ginko’s appeal by Jessica Holyoke The SL financial market was roiled today by news that the Ginko Financial Group, owned by Nicholas Portocarrero was attempting to buy a controlling interest in AVIX financials, owned by Investor Allen. After previous reports of Ginko’s inability to cover withdrawals from the “bank”, [...]
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