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Clickable Culture Casts Wary Eye on SL’s Teen Grid Plans
Last week, the Clickable Culture blog posted an interesting analyis of the Linden’s plan to open a teen grid on SL, and they raised some points that I haven’t seen discussed here. They raise the security issue of teens and predators, but they also offered that the Linden’s really need to pay experienced SL-ers to [...]
Full StorySimcast acquires Third Simulator
The SimCast group, one of the PvP games under development in Second Life, today announced the acquisition of a third sim to its combat arena — this one owned by team member Mystic Templar. In a press release, SimCast CEO Prong Thetan said that new combat simulator is named Midgard, and is positioned between the [...]
Full StoryIntroducing Herald Post Six Grrrls
In his neverending quest to have the Herald emulate British tabloids, Publisher Urizenus Sklar has struck a business relationship with Players Magazine publisher Marilyn Murphy wherein the virtual models of Players Magazine will be featured in the Herald. You say you want Beefcake Boys too? That can be arranged. But until then, our first Post [...]
Full StoryNew Look for the Herald
Yeah the bitching has already started, and there are a lot of bugs to work out and this new format is really not ready for prime time, but.. history marches on. Let’s just say that I have my reasons, and, well, I like this look a lot better. And the administrators tools are nicer. But [...]
Full StorySL Boxing Suffers Another Setback
It looked like Second Life Boxing was back in business after Tommy Rampal and David Jacobs made amends over “the incident” — you know, the one where David threw a hissy fit and did a demo job on the SLB complex. But now comes another setback. The SLB property was deeded to a group with [...]
Full StoryTartarus Project Raises its Flag
This is one part drama and two parts interesting: Ryan Jade of the Tartarus project has posted a proposal for Linden funding for his project on the SL Forums here. This of course has led to lots of “yays” and not a few “BFD”s, and charges of attention whoring (something we know about here!), but [...]
Full StoryEA to employ 500 in China. Jeff Brown: “it isn”t outsourcing”
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown According to this article in the Mercury News, EA is expanding its operations in China and may hire as many as “500 artists, developers, and programmers by the end of the decade.” In the face of all the recent whining from EA employees and their spouses about [...]
Full StorySex Furniture, part 1
Sure in so-called real life everyone knows that beds and couches can be used for sex, and maybe even the kitchen table in a pinch, but the options are limited. In Second Life, however, furniture is all about cyber. We thought it would be useful to take our readers on a tour, beginning in this [...]
Full StoryClub Euphoria Grand Opening
Pat the Rat has been pretty much shirking his/her duties of late, but s/he did manage to drop in on the the grand opening of Club Euphoria earlier this week. Pictures follow.
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