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'.