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Protests, Politics And Parties In MMORPGs
The Importance of writes "LawMeme's James Grimmelmann has written an interesting piece on protests, politics and parties in MMORPGs. In particular, he talks about the 'tax revolt' in Second Life." -
Protests, Politics And Parties In MMORPGs
The Importance of writes "LawMeme's James Grimmelmann has written an interesting piece on protests, politics and parties in MMORPGs. In particular, he talks about the 'tax revolt' in Second Life." -
Second Life Welcomes Alien Abductors
Thanks to GamePro for their report discussing the post-Beta launch phase of MMO title Second Life. The piece gives a handy overview of the unique parts of this 3D subscription-based PC title: "Certain areas, called 'sandbox' sims, allow you to build and script stuff in the game world for free.. [such as] domino rallies, giant houses of cards, odd sculptures, and so on - and anyone passing by is free to interact with them as they please." But this freedom has led to strange, cosmic forces being unleashed: "..someone's going around the world and 'abducting' people with a brownish alien spacecraft, sucking them up with a blue tractor beam and letting them go after a short period." There's more coverage via this forum thread and 'enfant terrible' Wagner James Au's column on the Second Life site itself, 'Notes From A New World'. -
Second Life Welcomes Alien Abductors
Thanks to GamePro for their report discussing the post-Beta launch phase of MMO title Second Life. The piece gives a handy overview of the unique parts of this 3D subscription-based PC title: "Certain areas, called 'sandbox' sims, allow you to build and script stuff in the game world for free.. [such as] domino rallies, giant houses of cards, odd sculptures, and so on - and anyone passing by is free to interact with them as they please." But this freedom has led to strange, cosmic forces being unleashed: "..someone's going around the world and 'abducting' people with a brownish alien spacecraft, sucking them up with a blue tractor beam and letting them go after a short period." There's more coverage via this forum thread and 'enfant terrible' Wagner James Au's column on the Second Life site itself, 'Notes From A New World'. -
Second Life Welcomes Alien Abductors
Thanks to GamePro for their report discussing the post-Beta launch phase of MMO title Second Life. The piece gives a handy overview of the unique parts of this 3D subscription-based PC title: "Certain areas, called 'sandbox' sims, allow you to build and script stuff in the game world for free.. [such as] domino rallies, giant houses of cards, odd sculptures, and so on - and anyone passing by is free to interact with them as they please." But this freedom has led to strange, cosmic forces being unleashed: "..someone's going around the world and 'abducting' people with a brownish alien spacecraft, sucking them up with a blue tractor beam and letting them go after a short period." There's more coverage via this forum thread and 'enfant terrible' Wagner James Au's column on the Second Life site itself, 'Notes From A New World'. -
Second Life MMOG Launches
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a SFGate.com article about the official launch of MMO title Second Life, a "rapidly growing and constantly changing 3D online society, shaped entirely by its residents", which has its public unveiling today. We covered this interesting user-shaped virtual world a few weeks back, and it's now open for business, with a free Windows client download and monthly subscription fees. It's also one of the few MMO titles to have a DMCA complaints page for infringing user-created content, where complainants must fill out a form "identify[ing] in detail the location of the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon. For example 'The copyrighted work I am referring to is located on the map area labeled 'Freelon, 104,30,56'.'" -
Second Life Opens Public Beta
thehossman writes "A friend of mine works for Linden Lab, and for the past few months he's been hyping their upcoming product: Second Life. I've just been nodding my head, and ignoring him, but last week he logged in and gave me a mini-tour of the VR world (and some things their alpha-testers have helped create) and I was blown away. Now they've announced their public beta, and if you've got a machine that can handle it, I highly advise you to check it out." This is another of the lifestyle-focused massively multiplayer titles that seem to have very big (venture capital?) budgets backing them - can they succeed? -
Second Life Opens Public Beta
thehossman writes "A friend of mine works for Linden Lab, and for the past few months he's been hyping their upcoming product: Second Life. I've just been nodding my head, and ignoring him, but last week he logged in and gave me a mini-tour of the VR world (and some things their alpha-testers have helped create) and I was blown away. Now they've announced their public beta, and if you've got a machine that can handle it, I highly advise you to check it out." This is another of the lifestyle-focused massively multiplayer titles that seem to have very big (venture capital?) budgets backing them - can they succeed? -
Second Life Opens Public Beta
thehossman writes "A friend of mine works for Linden Lab, and for the past few months he's been hyping their upcoming product: Second Life. I've just been nodding my head, and ignoring him, but last week he logged in and gave me a mini-tour of the VR world (and some things their alpha-testers have helped create) and I was blown away. Now they've announced their public beta, and if you've got a machine that can handle it, I highly advise you to check it out." This is another of the lifestyle-focused massively multiplayer titles that seem to have very big (venture capital?) budgets backing them - can they succeed? -
Second Life Opens Public Beta
thehossman writes "A friend of mine works for Linden Lab, and for the past few months he's been hyping their upcoming product: Second Life. I've just been nodding my head, and ignoring him, but last week he logged in and gave me a mini-tour of the VR world (and some things their alpha-testers have helped create) and I was blown away. Now they've announced their public beta, and if you've got a machine that can handle it, I highly advise you to check it out." This is another of the lifestyle-focused massively multiplayer titles that seem to have very big (venture capital?) budgets backing them - can they succeed?
