Lunar 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, [...]

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Drama: Online Advertising Cat Fight to the Death

by Urizenus Sklar, from the Failed Monetizing Strategy Watch Desk Joseph Jaffe and the Crayonistas have departed from Second Life, which is too bad because I would love to have them weigh in on this cat fight. Seems Eric Clemens of the Wharton School had the temerity to suggest that the online advertising business model [...]

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Will 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 [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: 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, [...]

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Browser 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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Pimpin’ My Crib in Virtual MTV®

Points for friending – and your chicks for free by Sigmund Leominster From the network that could be said to have pioneered reality TV comes the unreal Virtual MTV, another 3D virtual world for people like us who are trying to escape from our own versions of the Real World. This latest attempt at establishing [...]

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ADV: Sensuous Avatar Photograhy by Tali Rosca

I'm pleased to announce that I’m exhibiting a small range of in-world avatar photography. The idea of the pictures has been to make artistic nudes in much the same way you’d do in RL, yet at the same time meeting SL on its own terms, creating pictures which look like they belong in SL rather [...]

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Blizzard’s War Against Addon Makers

You can make our game better, but you can't make money for doing so! by Dr. Legion, staff reporter Last week Blizzard made an announcement that has been causing a buzz in the usually politically comatose World of Warcraft community. WOW players are probably familiar with addons such as for Zygor Guides, Carbonite and QuestHelper, [...]

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Op/Ed: Second Life Smut Must Be Purged!

End Linden orgies for a better, more decent world by Miss Petunia Amaryllis Courtney Taliaferro, Second Life League of Decency LindenLab has decided to uproot the nefarious weeds sown by  Second Life’ssalacious Sybarites. My sisters and brothers in the League of Decencywill assist in the painful process of purging perversion from ourpresence. Caveat Lector: Dear [...]

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Will the Confusion Never End?

SL Fanboiz confooz cashing out with earnings! by Urizenus Sklar, just off the the phone with Tim Geithner, and TARP money or not, Herald staffers are not giving up their phat bonuses! In a recent post on New World Notes, Hamlet Au attempts to recharge the Second Life hype cycle by headlining the news that [...]

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