Archive for 'Virtual Products, Services and Reviews'
Carbonite 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 new [...]
Intellectual Property: A Tiny Affair
Who owns the rights to pictures of Tiny avatars?
by Kris Dibou
an example of the disputed illustrations
As I was working on a story for the Herald (regarding a fellow who was writing a children’s book on heart health) including illustrations make from screenshots of Tiny avatars in Second Life, I received this note from Ms. Wynx [...]
NASA Wants An MMO – For Free!
RFP asks developers to create a game for fun
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Friday, NASA released an RFP seeking a partner to help create a massively multiplayer online game to help teach science and engineering. The project has been seen as an exciting opportunity since it was initially announced in 2007 – a promised $3 [...]
Assessing Coke’s Virtual Thirst Project: Win, Fail, or Just Another SL Dud?
Broken Crayons: Was The Virtual Thirst Contest The Last Gasp of the Crayonistas?
by Urizenus Sklar
I don’t know, I’m asking. I missed the event announcing the winner of the Coke Virtual Thirst Contest, and I don’t know how that event went down. As I disclosed earlier I was on an advisory panel for [...]
The Re-Invention of Philip Linden
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist
[update: photo credit for the picture below - Tara5 Oh. The original picture and Tara5's interview with King Philip can be found here: here]
Mrs. Linden’s little boy is growing up. The fair-haired, Donnie-Osmond-cute repository of our hopes and dreams, “El Chefe” who says we can “blame it all on him,” is now [...]
Jimbo Quality Enhances Leadership Image
Jimbo buys presidential quality hair
by Jimbo Quality
After my last article, I sensed that there was something missing from my campaign to become President of Second Life. I sensed that the people had expectations of me that I wasn’t meeting. My team hit the streets and conducted extensive research to find out what my fellow residents [...]
Gorean Radio in SL: Beyond AM, FM, and XM, there is BDSM
Community Radio Even a Kajira Could Luff
by Urizenus Sklar, Media Mogul/Critic
As the Second Life mediascape continues to diversify, a number of in-world radio stations have emerged. Of course such radio stations have been familiar to us at least since the days of The Sims Online, where there were a number of radio stations, including [...]
More Grid Hopping
by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista
I never knew Tuesday nights were so busy in Second Life.
This evening held three very big events in ESC history. The NBA made its virtual-world debut on the T-Mobile sim, while the Aloft project held a second grand opening and took questions from the attendees, and Robert Redford’s The Green presented [...]
Nissan Retools
The Orignal Nissan Build has Become a Famous SL Marketing Flub. Is the New Project Any Better?
Readers may recall our criticism of the Nissan build last October. It was our view that the build failed to take advantage of the social nature of online worlds and also failed to show any sort of [...]
Residents of 8 Sims Homeless – Is Land Scamming or Illness to Blame?
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
What appears to be one of the largest virtual land business failures ever threw residents of at least 8 sims out of their homes today – as the Azure Islands land company did a repo-man job on sims owned by Azure Islands but managed by lilly Margretts. Sources claim that [...]
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