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Second Life Fanboys Protest Times Haterade
Stop saying bad things about my game or I'll call you names and pout by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media desk The high pitched squeal you hear is the sound of Second Life fanboys writhing in pain as David Rowan at the Times of London dumps a big bucket of icy haterade all over Second Life, [...]
Full StoryEat THIS, Ludologists! EVE Fan Vid Made of Win.
by Urizenus Sklar, from the Narratology Roolz Desk Those of you who don’t track the eggheads on Terra Nova may not be aware that there is a VERY SERIOUS debate between narratologists and ludologists. Ludologists think that MMOs are all about play. Narratologists think that MMOs are about spinning collaborative narratives. Then there are people [...]
Full StoryEXCLUSIVE: FrizzleFry Interview — Part 2
Second Life griefing gang leader on governance, weapons, and mafia wars by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk In the second half of the Herald's interview with notorious griefer FrizzleFry, he takes responsibility for crashing the farewell party for Robin Linden, discusses how the PN griefing gang is governed, the arms race with Linden Lab, the [...]
Full StoryLuskwood Furries Mum on Lindens, Might be Brain-Eaters
by Pappy Enoch, Investigative Reporter undercover reporter Pappy Enoch (far right) risks life in visit to fur enclave MizPixeleen telled me to go git a story on them Furry-Critters and theLinden Lab rules on bein’ nekkid n’ gettin’ some action. I also wantedto find out if’n any mean folks been pickin’ on them! I [...]
Full Storyalika Yue — Post6 Grrl
[Note from Delora: This week'sPost6 Grrl, alika Yue, is someone I've known for a long, long time. She's not one of my best friends, before you hecklers start in on me;she's just someone who I've ended up running into time and again,almost everywhere I go. I think she might be secretly stalking me orsomething. Maybe a [...]
Full StoryCarbonite Makers Cave to Blizzard Directive
by Dr. Legion, staff reporter We recently posted a story about a dust-up in the WoW community over the new Blizzard policy about addons — user made enhancements of the game interface. According to the new policy, addons can not be sold and donations can not be solicited in world. Now one target of the [...]
Full StoryLunar Raid’s Video Metaplace World Reviews
by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media desk Pirates, ponies, and frogger-style roadkill can be seen at the Metaplace Insider, where Lunar Raid has just released his second video MP world review – more examples of the sorts of worlds that can be created in Metaplace and run on standard web browsers. After an intense negotiating session, [...]
Full StoryWill Nomadic Furs Nest in Metaplace?
FurCity under construction by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A few intrepid scouts for the furry community are now investigating Raph Koster’s still-in-closed-beta Metaplace platform – despite the very limited options for customization of the avatars. While personally customized avatars are presumably to be available in the future, MP worlds currently can override a player’s [...]
Full StoryEXCLUSIVE: FrizzleFry Interview — Part 1
Griefing gang leader explains his game by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The notorious FrizzleFry – a shadowy figure from the griefing underground – recently made arrangements for an exclusive interview with the Herald. While Second Life can be used for meetings if you don't mind waiting for the scenery and the avatars to rez, [...]
Full StoryBrowser Based 3D Worlds: Are the Pieces Finally Falling in Place?
by Urizenus Sklar, Contributing Editor Raph Koster is expressing a kind of jaded been-there-done-that-saw-it-coming attitude about what he is seeing at the Game Developers Conference this year, and I’m not surprised. One year you are the crazy nut describing the future to an audience of twelve other nuts, and the next year the room is [...]
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