Archive for 'News from The Sims Online'
Could Sims 2 Baby BBQ Seriously Help SL Survive?
Or will Second Life users’ hate and fear of change destroy the metavese? by Omelet ex-Linden, concerned shareholder Recently I was talking with my last two inside-the-Lab contacts – Sensipoo and Hubris Linden – about Second Life’s trajectory, which inevitably ends in oblivion. As usual, Sensipoo Linden broke into tears at the thought of criticism [...]
Full StoryAnd from the ashes…TSO Restoration plans to bring back The Sims Online!
Will Uri and the Herald return to (emulated) TSO? In this interview we meet, Ghost, a former resident of Blazing Falls on TSO. He is currently involved in a project called TSO Restoration, which is a team of developers that are working to build a version of TSO on private servers. He claims it will [...]
Full StoryVirtual Vigilantes – Eggheads Are Watching the Watchers
Over at at Henry Jenkins blog and MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media site, part one of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar’s think piece Watching the Watchers: Power and Politics in Second Life traces the evolution of both the online world griefing phenomena and the virtual security operations that have emerged to counter griefers. Posting the [...]
Full StoryThe Second Greatest Story Ever Told. Now in Paperback!
Dawning of the Age of Metaverse Enlightenment by Dr. Ocularis, Herald Book Club As we survey the broad sweep of the last two and a half millennia of Western culture, several efforts stand out as “Great Books” of this tradition — The Bible, Plato’s Republic, and Aristotle’s Poetics, for example. Is it not time to [...]
Full StoryTSO Failure Analysis (reprinted)
RIP TSO Many of you have heard the sad but perhaps inevitable news that TSO will close its doors permanently on August 1. Many Second Lifers began their travels in the metaverse on TSO and this newspaper began there as well as The Alphaville Herald. From the very first weeks of our covering TSO we [...]
Full StoryFox Making Movie from EA’s Sims Game
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Peter Gilstrap reports in Variety that 20th Century Fox is planning to make a a live-action movie of The Sims, after purchasing the feature rights from Electronic Arts. The script is still being written, and the talent is presently unnamed, but there are some clues in a quote from [...]
Full StoryIs Ginko’s Alleged Ponzi Game About to Implode? Will Linden Lab be Held Liable?
The Journal of the Business Law Society at the University of Illinois College of Law is running a well documented article on Second Life’s Ginko corporation, which claims to have the equivalent of $475,000 US invested in it but which some have called a ponzi scheme, Meanwhile, Philip Linden has comparedGinko to the Grameen Bank [...]
Full StoryHome for the Holidays
By Dyerbrook, Dept. of Family Holiday FunYes, home is the place, where…when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Tired of lag, grey squares, missing textures, bots, bits, and bobs? There’s always The Sims Online, home for many of us who write, read, and comment on the Herald. TSO is where [...]
Full StoryLL’s Metaverse Swoons At 16,000 Logins
Residents enjoy saturated network, sim crashing, intermittent teleports by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs deskLinden Lab today admitted to performance problems that might have rendered the grid nearly un-usable for at least a few users who wanted to do something other than sit in one place and share lagged-out IM and chat over the last several [...]
Full StoryTSO Shocker – Urizenus Sklar Part of Sim Shadow Government
by Pixeleen Mistral, Internal Affairs Unit Anya Ixchel’s interview of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar in SLatenight ends with a shocking revelation – Uri confesses that while in The Sims Online he was a secret part of the Sims Shadow Government – a vigilante group that appointed itself to police the TSO world – and a [...]
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