Holy Christopher Columbus! Second Life breathes a sigh of hope today as Rodvik Linden introduces himself to the Second Life community. It would seem that Rodvik has been very busy in Second Life as of late, even taking to the intricacies of scripting, building, alt-ing, driving, and sailing. You can follow the adventures of Rodvik [...]
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Rodvik Linden Explores the Grid
Posted: January 20, 2011 in Second Life NewsTags: ceo, Computer Games, Electronic Arts, New CEO, PC Games, Rod Humble, Rodvik Linden, Second Life, Second Life News, SecondLife, SecondLife News, SL, The Sims, Video Games
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Viewer 2.5 Beta 1 – Get Your Rezz On!
Posted: January 19, 2011 in Second Life NewsTags: Blue Mars Mobile, Computer Games, Kakadu, Kakadu 6.4, KDU, PC Games, Performance, Second Life, Second Life News, SecondLife, SecondLife News, SL, Viewer 2.5 Beta
Holy Performance Upgrades! Second Life Viewer 2.5 Beta 1 is out with a whopping potential “30% increase in decoding images, which should translate to a visible improvement in rezzing time for complex scenes.” The reason for the performance boost is supposedly related to the older Kakadu library. I like the way that sounds…Kakadu! Anyway, this [...]
Blue Mars Downward Spiral to Nothingness
Posted: January 18, 2011 in Second Life NewsTags: Avatar Reality, Blue Mars, Blue Mars Mobile, Computer Games, Electronic Arts, iPad, iPhone, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life News, SecondLife, SecondLife News, SL
Holy Meltdown Moly! Strange scientific experiments have been going on recently at Blue Mars, but none so disturbing as the most recent. Last week it was announced that Avatar Reality is restructuring and they will be dropping technical support for the Blue Mars PC user client and that most likely only bug fixes will be [...]
Linden Lab Acquires New CEO!!!
Posted: December 23, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: ceo, Computer Games, Electronic Arts, New CEO, PC Games, Rod Humble, Second Life, Second Life News, SecondLife, SecondLife News, SL, The Sims, Video Games, Wikileaks
Technorati: tsa, SecondLife, Second Life, Rod Humble, New CEO, SecondLife News, SL, Electronic Arts Let’s get ready to HUMBLE! This just in from the Guinness Book of World Records. Linden Lab acquires a new CEO, thus breaking most previous company records for the number of CEO’s in a single year. This latest CEO attempt looks [...]
Holy Moly! The Teens Are Coming!
Posted: November 18, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: Chainsaw, Computer Games, Elimination, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, teen commandments, Teen Grid, Video Games, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds
In just two short months the teens are coming to the main grid and all hell is going to break loose. Michael Jackson is even working up his charm by hanging out at all the cool clubs, just anticipating the momentous event. Linden Lab has the new jail bait plan all worked out. It’s supposed [...]
Virtual Strip Searches Leaked to Interwebs
Posted: November 18, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: body scan, body scans, gizmodo, leaked, marshal, naked, scans, Second Life, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, tsa, Video Games, virtual strip search, virtual strip searches, xray
Technorati: tsa, SecondLife, Second Life, Virtual Strip Searches, Virtual Strip Search, SecondLife News, SL, leaked In what appears to be a severe lack of security and scientific privacy invasion, today it has been reported that 100 naked body scans (photos of virtual strip searches) were posted online, and this just after the shockingly new scathing [...]
Great Gaikai! Second Life Cloud Beta Demo
Posted: November 16, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: cloud, cloud based, Computer Games, demo, Gaikai, Kinect, Kinect Second Life, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life Kinect, Second Life News, SecondLife, Skylight, SL, Video Games
Technorati: Gaikai, SecondLife, Second Life, streaming, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, cloud Strange and surreal scientific experiments are running amok lately. First it was the Kinect, and now it is the Second Life Project Skylight viewer demo running in the cloud thanks to the Gaikai cloud-based streaming service. The demo site allows you to get [...]
Do You Kinect to Second Life?
Posted: November 12, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: Computer Games, drivers, Kinect, Kinect Second Life, Microsoft, open source, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life Kinect, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Technorati: Kinect, SecondLife, Second Life, drivers, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, xbox360 A truly bizarre scientific experiment was held recently in which the newly released Microsoft Kinect was hacked to hell in a handbasket with the results being that you could control the Kinect from a Windows PC. Then, even more recently, a Kinect [...]
Hamlet Au Goes Bonkers – Wants Your Face!
Posted: November 1, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: bonkers, credentials, face, Hamlet, Hamlet Au, privacy, real life face, Save Your Face, Second Life, Second Life Bots, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, Virtual Worlds
Technorati: Hamlet, SecondLife, Second Life, privacy, Second Life News, Face, SL, Hamlet Au In what can only be described as absurd, unbelievable, misconstrued, not having all the facts, just plain wrong, far off, and in a small nutshell, FAIL. Hamlet Au wants to see your real face. As this story is just trickling in, all the [...]
AMD Pulls a Linden Lab with New Radeon.
Posted: October 24, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: 6800, AMD, Computer Games, confusion, HD6800, Linden Lab, PC Games, Radeon, Second Life, Second Life Events, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Technorati: Radeon, SecondLife, Second Life, HD6800, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, AMD In a most disturbing move that uses state of the art confusion inducing techniques that even Linden Lab would be proud of, AMD decides to mystify the new HD6800 series video card naming convention. The 6800 series should be more powerful than the previous 5800 [...]
Philip Linden Transboogled! No Longer CEO.
Posted: October 19, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: BK Linden, ceo, Computer Games, Love Machine, PC Games, Philip Linden, Second Life, Second Life Events, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, steps down, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Technorati: CEO, SecondLife, Second Life, BK Linden, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, Philip Linden HOLY MOLY! This just off the news wire. In a peculiar predicament that makes Hamlet Au appear to be stable, Philip Linden is no longer the interim CEO of Linden Lab. The details are just trickling in. At first glance [...]
Nemo Trilogy Sim Headed for Destruction!
Posted: October 18, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: Machina Humanum Est, Nemo, Nemo Trilogy, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life Events, Second Life News, SecondLife, Sextan Shepherd, SL, steampunk, Virtual Reality
Technorati: SecondLife, Second Life, Sextan Shepherd, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, Nemo Trilogy Holy Destructive Moly! According to his post on SLUniverse, Sextan Shepherd, the very famous Second Life artist who created the amazing steampunk Nemo Trilogy sim has perhaps gone completely mad and is about to destroy the entire sim on October 29th, [...]
Philip Linden 2.0 Overdrive
Posted: October 16, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: bullshit, Display Name, Display Names, new look, PC Games, Philip Linden, Philip Linden 2.0, Second Life, Second Life Events, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, Virtual Reality
Technorati: SecondLife, Second Life, Philip Linden, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, Display Names In a bizarre Second Life wardrobe malfunction, Philip Linden accidentally upgraded his avatar to version 2.0 whilst trying to figure out the new display name options. He just didn’t realize that adding a 2.0 to his display name in Second Life [...]
COLLADA: Mesh Attacks Second Life Aditi Grid!
Posted: October 13, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: Aditi, Collada, Computer Games, Jack Linden, mesh, open beta, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, Video Games, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds
Technorati: news, SecondLife, Second Life, mesh, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, Collada Holy Flying Doctor Frankenstein! COLLADA mesh imports have officially started to attack the Second Life Aditi grid today with the release of the open beta project viewer. This will be a day to remember. For many Second Life residents, today is judgement [...]
Hamlet Au Seeks Refuge on Planet Michael
Posted: October 10, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: Bill Paxton, Blue Mars, consultant, Crazy, Hamlet, Hamlet Au, insane, Planet Michael, refuge, Second Life, Second Life Bots, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, Virtual Worlds
Technorati: Hamlet, SecondLife, Second Life, refuge, Second Life News, Planet Michael, SL, Hamlet Au The other night I was feeling a little gloomy whilst pondering over the new Second Life customer support options I’m going to be faced with very soon and so I just sat down at the table and placed my order. I was [...]
Basic SL Residents Get the Deluxe Shaft
Posted: October 7, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: basic residents, Computer Games, customer support, MMO, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life Events, Second Life News, SecondLife, shaft, SL, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Technorati: support, SecondLife, Second Life, customer support, Second Life News, staff, SL, turkey In a strange, twisted, and very sadistic cost cutting maneuver disguised as a great and wonderful achievement, Second Life Basic resident customer support is getting the super deluxe shaft right up the ass of pain. Starting on Wednesday of next week, the types of cases [...]
Linden Lab Tells the EDU Sector to Beat It
Posted: October 4, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: 2011, Computer Games, Education, land pricing, MMO, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life Events, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, smackdown, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Technorati: education, SecondLife, Second Life, insane, Second Life News, edu sector, SL, Planet Michael Holy Smooth Criminals! In a very bizarre strategy that makes Michael Jackson seem normal, Linden Lab has decided to lay down a pricing smackdown right in the face of the educational sector in Second Life. To be honest, it’s Monday, I’m [...]
Bouncing Boobies are Back? – Linden Style
Posted: September 27, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: boobies, bouncing, breast physics, Computer Games, MMO, PC Games, Second Life, Second Life Events, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Technorati: boobies, SecondLife, Second Life, breast, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, MMO Holy Moly!!! In what must be the most incredible good news to hit Second Life in a long long time, through a blog post over at SL Universe, it appears that Linden Lab may be working on physics needed to allow boobies [...]
Second Life Viewer 2.2 Beta Released Today!
Posted: September 23, 2010 in Second Life NewsTags: Computer Games, MMO, passes, PC Games, released, Second Life, Second Life Events, Second Life News, SecondLife, SL, Video Games, Viewer 2.2, Virtual Reality
Technorati: new release, SecondLife, Second Life, Viewer 2.2, Second Life News, SecondLife News, SL, MMO All Right All Right and Hey! Hey! Hey! Today brings with it the glorious release of the Second Life Viewer 2.2 BETA. There are many nice bug fixes and features in this version, but best of all “Sidebar Tabs can [...]
