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News of the World News: Castronova Takes Virtual Commerce to the National Airwaves
Virtual Economist Edward Castronova — author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games as well as many engaging Terra Nova blog posts — hits the national airwaves this evening during a segment about virtual commerce to air on ABC World News Tonight. Check your local listings for time and channel, but don’t [...]
Full StoryPolice Blotter
Don’t look now, but we are running the RSS feed of the Linden Police Blotter so you can keep daily tabs on all the sordid badness in SL (scroll down — it’s in the left column). "Teen accessing main grid – Suspended 14 Days"? WTF, must be turning 18 in two weeks! Par-Tay!
Full StoryA Chat in the Desert
Cooperative gameplay, Egyptian-style Andrew Tepper, pharaoh of Egypt (or at least of the massively multiplayer online world of A Tale in the Desert) has something say, and he wants you to listen. He also wants you to get in his game, and is re-opening free trial accounts to anyone who’s interested, even if you’ve already [...]
Full StoryThe Island of Dr. Zamboni
Okay, so they’re not trying to push democratic governance in virtual worlds, but over at Democracy Island, which opens today in Second Life, the virtual world may may come in handy in settling governance issues in the real world. Under the tutelage of the New York Law School’s Beth Noveck and the guiding hand of [...]
Full StorySex, Fame and PC Baangs
Games journo Jim Rossignol recently traveled to Korea, and has brought back the first really in-depth story about PC gaming culture in that country, which he wrote for PC Gamer (UK) but which is currently available on Jim’s own site. For anyone even marginally interested in the future of gaming and virtual worlds, it’s a [...]
Full Story2005 Avatar of the Year: Prokofy Neva
Avatar of the Year Prokofy Neva (left) with Pathfinder Linden In December 2004, the Herald reported a story that raised few eyebrows at the time, but which would eventually become the single most controversial issue in Second Life during 2005, and would speak to many questions about how governance in cyberspace might shake out. The [...]
Full Story“I’m not a pimp, I’m a club owner”: Interview with Jenna Fairplay
By Dow Jonas In this interview the discreet charm of bourgeois Herald reporter Dow Jonas overcomes the bad blood between Uri and Club maven Jenna Fairplay, and gets her to sit down for an extensive conversation that ranges from her battles with the Lindens, to her troubles with mafias, her issues with Hellraiser Millions, her [...]
Full StoryHTML a Few Weeks Away?
Props to Hiro Pendragon for bringing it to our attention that not only did Cory demonstrate his SL Client running on Linux while in Berlin, but he also announced that HTML for SL was only a few weeks away. Whatever "a few weeks" means. Forums discussion here.
Full StorySix Swell Sick Sim Sex Sites
Our pal at Terra Nova, Ren Renolds, was kind enought to collate the new virtual platforms that are dedicated to cyber. Yowzers, I’m begining to lose count! But for the record we have… Heavenly Bodies Naughty America: The Game Rapture Online Red Light District Spend the Night 3Feelonline Sociolotron (actually already out of Beta) And [...]
Full StoryAvatar of the Year, Second Place: Anshe Chung
Second place in the Herald’s coveted Avatar of the Year award traditionally goes to the avi who has had the most impact on the virtual world’s economic scene. Last year’s winner, Sir/Father Callahan, was a master of the simolean trade in TSO, as well as a collector of rare cannons and press secretary for the [...]
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