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Jason Sim to appear on Oprah Tonight!
Oprah Winfrey of Alphaville has informed us that her guest tonight at 10 PM Eastern will be Jason Sim, who has recently reignited the controversy over the Alphaville Presidential Elections with his claims that he had first-hand knowledge of election-fixing practices that led to Mr. President?s defeat of Ashley Richardson. Given the incendiary nature of [...]
Full StoryWired News Investigates EA’s Ineptitude with MMOs
Daniel Terdiman, who broke the story of the Alphaville Elections into the infosphere not long ago has recently written a story on the string of failures that EA is racking up with online games. Casualties now include Motor City Online, Earth and Beyond, Ultima X, a scrubbed plan for a Harry Potter Game, and of [...]
Full StoryBombshell! JC Soprano retires from TSO, but confesses ALL on the way out.
In a resignation letter released to the Second Life Herald, Mafia Boss JC Soprano has announced his resignation from TSO (speculating that EA will shut it down after racking up some Christmas sales) and has begun to form a guild in Star Wars Galaxies. Of particular interest will be the purported full confession which JC [...]
Full Storyinterview with david pierce
- by montserrat tovar llewlyn david pierce, alphaville’s answer to lord richard attenborough, took some time out of his hectic schedule to discuss recent changes to the diamond theatre. he also shared some of his ideas about the future of the arts in alphaville.
Full StoryHe?s baaaack! Twitty: Satan?s Servant in TSO
In this interview we talk to the infamous Twitty, baddest of TSO?s bad boys, back after a brief stay in jail for drug running (or so he says, and who are we to disagree?). Twitty fills us in on Texas jails, bootcamp, his past wars agains Christians in TSO (including a church demo job) and [...]
Full StoryAlphaville Election Scandal Won’t go Away
The Alphaville Gazette, which is edited by SLH contributor and former AVG Press Secretary Ian is running a story to the effect that Jason Sim had posted an election-rigging confession in his user profile (since removed). Supposedly there was a Perl script that allowed one person to vote for Mr. President 264 time. Did this [...]
Full StoryUri meets The Thinkers
A couple weeks ago Hamlet Linden organized a meeting between me and The Thinkers — a group of 100+ Second Lifers that like to cogitate/discourse/ruminate about deep things etc. It was a fun time, but it does raise questions about exactly how far one can get with discussions in an online setting (at least one [...]
Full StoryDavid Pierce Resigns PE Ltd
David Pierce, of Pierce Entertainment LTD (recently the production company for an in-TSO production Waiting for Godot) has resigned his post and handed the reigns over to Eliza Collins. We’lll try to get a exit interview from him. Press release follows.
Full Storyi saw it: waiting for godot
–humdog last night i attended a performance of act 1 of waiting for godot at the diamond memorial theatre in Alphaville (TSO). if you haven’t got a ticket yet, see if you can get one because it is one of the most interesting theatre experiences i have had in a long time.
Full StoryOMFG! EA Pulls plug on Ultima X
Wowzers! In news releases issued by EA after they pulled the plug on Earth and Beyond, EA said it was sending its E&B dev team to work on Ultima X — the much hyped 3D successor to Ultima Online. But now they have announced they are pulling the plug on Ultima X. Informed sources say [...]
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