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The Second Coming of Dyerbrook
DB turns in the goateed male avi in an LL Bean barn mucking outfit for the Nubian Princess Look. Things that make you go hmmmmm. When the history of the Alphaville shard of TSO is finally written, Dyerbrook will figure prominently. In the early days s/he nearly hounded Will Wright out of the game — [...]
Full StoryInterview with a Vampire: Mir talks to Gweem Engel
Yesterday we republished Miravoir Psaltry?s article from Players on Second Life vampires. Today we give you her raw interview with vampire Gweem Engel.
Full StoryThe Vampires of Second Life
By Miravoir Psaltry (reprinted from Players, volume 11) In this story Miravoir, our intrepid chronicler of Second Life dancers, escorts, and furries meets some of the local vampires, and gets a great story, but also gets tapped! I warned her, I warned her?
Full StoryBedazzling Gravity Space Station
I gather that the Gravity Space Station is just a place to chill while the Bedazzled group works on their development of Unreal Tournament (or a version of it) inside SL (and with Francis Chung’s Seburo compact exploder no less), but it is noteworthy for the texturing and all. While I was visiting Phillip Linden [...]
Full StoryOne Song’s Poker Table
Infamous land baron, strip club/escort service operator, and virtual arsonist One Song (aka Mr. Fairplay) has finished his long awaited poker table — and the result is one of the most complexly scripted single objects in Second Life. We have seen it in operation at The Edge, and at the Red River Valley Saloon. Following [...]
Full StoryInterview with Phil Murdock of Empire Vendors
Snow and Phil In this interview Miravoir Psaltry talks to Phil Murdock, who with Snow Hare heads up the Empire Vendors Group. They turned sex toys and sex animations into an empire! Their story follows.
Full StoryIn the Belly of the Beast
CMU Researcher Randy Pausch Academic Randy Pausch has provided a rare look into the workings of EA Corporation in a recent paper entitled “An Academic’s Field Guide to Electronic Arts“. The paper is based on Pausch’s residency at EA and is intended as a sympathetic portrait — designed specificially to help academic institutions to build [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown: We aren’t the Only Sweat Shop!
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Just a few days ago, when we blogged the heartbreaking post from EA Spouse, we predicted that Jeff Brown would weigh in with some suitably unhelpful comments. And now he has! While the post from EA spouse has now received some 3000 comments (including many stories that [...]
Full StoryCamping Noobs in Second Life
In combat based MMOs, when players camp newbies they hang out at entry points and slaughter them — n00bs being such easy kills and all. Now in a social MMO like Second Life it’s the same basic idea only more subtle. Club officers pounce on n00bs, drag them to their clubs and entertain them to [...]
Full StoryAnother Sign of The End Times: a Hello Kitty MORPG
Maybe it was bound to happen. From the web site: “Hello Kitty World will allow thousands of players to live and participate in Hello Kitty’s magical and cute online world. You will be able to roam the streets of Kitty Kingdom, XO Federation, and Melody-land. Enjoy the beautiful landscape and architecture of Puroland or Badtzcity [...]
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