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Full StoryMaxis: Scammers Masquerading as EA Employees
There a series of important new announcements from EA Rep Tigger, posted on the Stratics Board, which all players in TSO should be alert to. One involves a player masquerading as a Maxis employee, the other involves a web site which players are being directed to, and which contains a Trojan Horse virus which will [...]
Full StoryGrounded!: Detroit Free Press Calls Van’s Mom
In case you wonder where Evangeline has been lately, perhaps his absense has to do with The Detroit Free Press Calling his mom as part of a story which was published today: Sex and the Simulated City: Virtual world raises issues in the real one. From the article: “From her home in Florida, the boy’s [...]
Full StoryInternational Simcon Cancelled: Informal Gathering to Take Place
Organizers have issued a press release announcing that the International Simcon will not be held as a formal gathering as originally planned. Persons who paid have reportedly already had their paypay accounts refunded. The news is not totally gloomy, however, as an informal gathering will still take place in Dearborn. Naturally, questions have been raised [...]
Full StoryFree Money roomies break with Van: Racist-themed Welcome Property Emerges
Story by Los, Deep Max, Anonymous, and The Eye In the wake of recent crackdowns on the Free Money for Newbies (FMFN) scam site, but driven largely by interpersonal conflicts, two new scam sites have emerged in Alphaville, both operated by FMFN alumni. The first house, currently number 2 in the Alphaville Welcome Category, is [...]
Full StoryTo Be Or Not To Be? That is the question when it comes to new content on TSO
By The Phantom To be or not to be. This, it appears, is the question on many players’ minds recently. In a recent announcement by Maxis employee and senior TSO Community Rep Tigger (the only TSO official who bothers to speak to the community) on the Stratics boards, we have been informed that Blackjack and [...]
Full StoryInterview with Selene Moon on Wicca and Witchcraft in Alphaville
Recently, Selene Moon came by the offices of the Alphaville Herald and asked one of our staff members why we haven’t written any stories on the Wiccan community in Alphaville. Good question! And while there are some key Wiccan community members that we want to interview eventually, we thought we would start by talking to [...]
Full StoryJust a Hop Skip and a Jump
Hi, not many of you will even recognize me, but I along with Prof. Ludlow started this blog. We had an idea that it would be pretty neat to be on the front lines of VR evolution, chronicling the social growths and trends, examining the linchpin personalities that spark VR wide debate. It can certainly [...]
Full StoryEvangeline Mocks EA: You Can’t Stop my anti-n00b “Terror Network”
As reported in the Alphaville Herald, Maxis has recently moved against accounts associated with the newbie scamming Free Money for Newbies property, although predictably they have moved in a half-hearted and impotent way. They terminated some of the accounts associated with Evangeline, but not all (they left his Evangeline Merrill account), and two other accounts [...]
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