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What Lies Beneath: A Meditation on the Digisoul
by Budka Groshomme When I was a kid I wondered, as most of my era did, whether the light in the icebox really went out when the door closed. Several attempts at divining this led only to a pinched nose. Although I have grown more careful about where I stick my nose since then, my [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Linden Labs and Griefers – Hands on or off?
by Neal Stewart OKKKAY? One of the perks of working for the Herald, other than the sex, drugs and heavy metal music… and the power… and the riches… other than those, one of… and the fame…. other than those, one of the perks is being able to pass your forum posts off as Op/Ed’s. The [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Supports Invasion of Your Privacy?
New friend…. or spy for your girlfriend? A look at the recent dust-up over detective agencies By Cienna Samiam My editor asked me if I would be interested in doing a story about in-world detective agencies. I scanned the forums and noted the several threads [1, 2, 3] on the matter, read Hamlet’s “Mc-Story” and [...]
Full StoryEditorial: Save the Oil Rig!
The ANWR oil rig Having now explored where only Lindens had gone before and after reading What Philip Said At the Oil Rig on Wednesday night and other SL forum threads, the Herald’s editorial board feels it important that the Lindens consider preserving some of the landmark builds that made the new northern continent a [...]
Full StoryGame Developer Rants burn houses, babies and bridges
If you hadn’t caught them earlier, Cory Ondrejka’s (aka Cory Linden’s) Terra Nova forum threads about the now-infamous Game Developers Rants, were Slashdotted yesterday. The main two Terra Nova threads are called ‘Burning Down the House’ and ‘Burn baby burn’. Some of the things that games developers came out with were beauties like these: “Iwata-san [...]
Full StoryThrough the Summer Door
(Not Second Life) The second in an occasional series from RL sci-fi scribe Budka Groshomme, who has been sharing with the Herald his first impressions of Second Life. Becoming a resident of Second Life appears quite unlike entereing the traditional science-fictional cyberspace, a virtual world made real from nothing more than bits and bytes, where [...]
Full StoryGame Review: “Settlers of Second Life: Catan it colonize SL gaming?”
Pirate Cotton reviews the new Second Life strategy board-game ‘Settlers of Second Life’. Pirate is an opinionated SL blogger (http://www.tinypirate.com) with an interest in gaming and Second Life culture. He brings his considerable experience as co-builder of Dark Life – Second Life’s first MMORPG (recently featured front-page at secondlife.com) – and creator of the ‘Game [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: “Bow, wanker” – Old Games Journalism Raises Its Fist
Fernando Martinez: “A real man needs more than one thing in life, you know what I’m saying here? The heart and the loins both on fire… groaning and straining and making hot dirty passionate encounters with the secretaries, while the wife she sleeps at home…” By Neal Stewart I’m clearly ‘a bit of a wanker’. [...]
Full StoryOff the Grid with Walker Spaight: A Bow to the New Games Journalism
The New Games Journalism takes a swipe at the ResistanceImage stolen from LucasArts Of course it’s the pot that calls the virtual kettle black. Or should I say, calls it “nigger”?
Full StoryThe Day the Toons Escaped the Grid
By Sheriff Oswald Picklebrains and Pearl Fuzzyswirl Toontown, the MMO by Disney Corporation, seems transgressive on the surface. Players create avatars that have the basic form of 1930’s animated animals and attack evil corporate “cogs” with gag weapons like cream pies, seltzer bottles, and falling pianos. The cogs – bossbots, lawbots, sellbots, and cashbots – [...]
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