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Meet the Candidates 3: Ashley Richardson for President
In this interview we meet Ashley Richardson who is running for the Alphaville Government presidency, loxee as her running mate. Her campaign website is at http://www.freewebs.com/voterichardson.
Full StoryMeet the candidates 2: Jinjo for President
Several weeks ago we interviewed Mr-President of the Alphaville Government. Next month there will be an election to see if Mr-President can keep his job. Leading up to that election will be a series of two primaries which will whittle the contenders down to a single challenger who will face Mr-President. In this interview we [...]
Full StoryPolie Bear: Alphaville’s Army of One
Yesterday I received the following intriguing piece of spam from Nick, ex-roomie of Van’s Free Money for Newbies, where he was Julia, and ex of the Royalty Cash scam house, where he was Sanjiro, and sometime member of the Armone mafia: xxx (4:07:18 AM): I need a new account, anybody wanna give/sell? (lost my best [...]
Full StoryDesperately Seeking Oblivious Sims
I’ve now talked to sims in both the Bay Area and the NYC area that have received some version of this letter. A slightly earlier version was also posted by Tigger on sims stratics. It appears that EA was desperately trying to locate some sims (any sims!) for some sort of televised PR exercise. No [...]
Full StoryInterview with Don Hopkins
In this interview, Don Hopkins describes his early days on the Sims development team with Will Wright (back when the project was called Dollhouse) and the difficulties the team had fighting EA’s attempts to terminate the project, and then preventing EA from gutting it of interesting content (like architecture tools). Even now, he claims that [...]
Full StoryBe anything you want, except a slave
Maxis has been moving against certain profiles in the BDSM community of late — in particular those which indicate that a particular user is a slave of another user (an example would be the relation between AVH readers/contributors Maria LaVeaux and her slave, Toy). Some accounts have reportedly been suspended for using the “slave of [...]
Full StoryMeet Mr-President of “The Alphaville Government”
By: The Teflon Cambridge Don With all the bad things covered in the Alphaville Herald in recent times, I approached the publisher and challenged him to present something positive for us to read for a change. That’s when he offered me a job as a reporter. This is my first story with the AV Herald [...]
Full StoryAlphaville’s Robin Hood?
In an interesting, but presumably impossible to confirm story, a sim recently appeared in Alphaville, stayed long enough to hack into the account of a member of the ex Van Clan, give away his 800K to newbies, and then disappear. The story goes like this. Ex-Free Money for Newbies regular Julia (among other names), known [...]
Full StoryOn the Map: Interview with Godfather Antonio Armone
Several weeks ago the AVH reported that the collapse of the Sims Shadow Government would lead to the rise of Mafia activity in Alphaville. That prophesy has certainly been fulfilled, with one neighborhood currently under the control of X-Mafia and another under control of mafia newcomers, the Armone Family (many members of which are ex-ssg). [...]
Full StoryGrounded!: Detroit Free Press Calls Van’s Mom
In case you wonder where Evangeline has been lately, perhaps his absense has to do with The Detroit Free Press Calling his mom as part of a story which was published today: Sex and the Simulated City: Virtual world raises issues in the real one. From the article: “From her home in Florida, the boy’s [...]
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