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Gone in 60 Seconds
Even the Herald is bored with global attacks and grid crashings these days, there are so many of them. But the cleanup from Monday’s attack had an interesting side-effect. Many objects were wiped from the grid. Here is how the Lindens described what happened: Tonight started as a run-of-the-mill gray-goo style attack. We had essentially [...]
Full StoryLessig Coming to SL?
Portrait of Lessig stolen from http://www.globalhome.com/paintings/2003/lessig.html Hammie Linden is reporting that Lawrence Lessig is coming to Second Life in avatar form. Wow. That is huge. In my humble opinion Lessig is the most important legal figure alive, since he is working on issues that have maximal impact on our future — issues ranging from intellectual [...]
Full StoryLet the Island Wars Begin
by Dow Jonas No sooner did Linden Lab put an island + frills up for sale on eBay (apparently to show Project Entropia they ain’t all that), but now Anshe Chung has raised the stakes, challenging with an island of her own for sale on eBay, and she has sweetened the pot with additional perks. [...]
Full StoryEntropia Envy Leads to Island Auction with Frills Attached.
Thanks to Zero Grace/Rat Boy/Tony Walsh for this pointer. I’ve often wondered if it didn’t chafe Philip’s behind to see the eminently lame Project Entropia score big publicity for its island auctions. I guess it did, because now LL is gunning for similar publicity (and observe: we enable them in the enterprise!). Here is the [...]
Full StoryThe Furni Whores of Habbo Hotel
I must live under a rock. So many scandals and incidents of elemental weirdness manage to just pass me by. Yet, now and then I get a chance to play catch-up. Last night it was in an underground dive bar known as the 8-Ball, and a kindly grad student told me about the “furni whores” [...]
Full StoryEA to Pay $680 Mil for Jamdat Mobile
EA Corporate Headquarters Last new years I predicted that EA would shell out a billion for another game company. I’m saying that their purchase of Jamdat Mobile is close enough to count as a score. Notice I also predicted a griefer attack that took out the SL grid. I’m just wiping the floor with Cory [...]
Full StoryLINDEN ADMITS TO INSIDER SNOW SIM DEAL ON TEEN GRID
By Dow Jonas In a fascinating glimpse into the life of teen-agers in Second Life and the internal pressures with which Lindens cope in their San Francisco office, a land scandal has emerged on the Teen Grid (TG) involving confirmed charges that Blue Linden gave a teen land buyer an unfair insiders’ heads-up about a [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl dreams Anubis
The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, dreams Anubis! Dreams is a long-time SecondLife resident who is very short-winded and who loves building and making textures in PhotoShop! Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six Grrrl.
Full StoryUnleash Your Inner Hordeling
If you’ve grown tired of the burdens that accompany membership in that most august group of Second Life residents, the Feted Inner Core, now there’s a solution. Just VW-hop on over to World of Warcraft and join the Feted Inner Horde, a new guild on WoW’s Lightninghoof server composed entirely of Second Life residents, complete [...]
Full StoryZero Grace to take SXSW on Sex-in-Games Gutter Crawl: Panel of Degenerates to include Herald Editorial Director
In yet another sign of the end times and/or the ascendency of what those in the moment call The Herald Aesthetic, the Interactive Component of the world famous South by Southwest conference in Austin Texas will feature a panel on the secret sex lives of video games. According to Zero Grace, aka Tony Walsh, on [...]
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