Archives for Mar 18th, 2008
Linden Lab continues network reconfiguration through the week
At the beginning of the month, Linden Lab finished changing network subnets on all of their Second Life simulator groups. Now, it seems the next batch of network subnet reassignment is to take place, affecting assorted infrastructure equipment. Starting any time from 3AM SLT (US Pacific) tomorrow, r...
Get informed on Warhammer's Tome of Knowledge
Waaagh is not only a great orcish outcry, it's the name of a new blog aiming to talk about EA Mythic's in-development Warhammer Online. The succinctly named Syp has done a service for everyone interested in one of the most unique features coming in the gritty fantasy title. He's gone through just a...
Third wave of WoW action figures impresses
Whether or not you're the type of WoW player that buys collectibles, you've got to admit that the newest series of action figures from DC Unlimited are pretty cool. We're especially impressed by the Undead Rogue, which has some ridiculously detailed color work and makes us want it with an undying fe...
The Daily Recap
Connect08 Wrapup: LotRO lowdown, Jumpgate juicies and D&D delights Codemasters' Connect08, held last Friday and Saturday in Birmingham, was an interesting event in a number of ways. We Europeans rarely feel much love from Stateside publishers -- we're shuttled off on to ...
Football Manager to bring MMOs to the pitch
If ever there was a group of gaming fanatics to rival those that call MMOs their home, it would be those crazy footie fans that drive the sales of soccer simulators like the Football Manager series with their dreams of Championship League glory. While combining the two may at first appear like an ...
Age of Conan economics 101
You'll be spending a lot of time chopping peope in half in Age of Conan, and will likely get very good at it, but at some point you might want to learn a thing or two about making and spending money as well. Thankfully, the official site has provided a guide that is sure to help Hyboria's budding ec...
Blizzard studio tour makes jaws detach from faces
If you're the type of person who enjoys seeing something that will make your jaw drop and head shake simultaneously, then by all means watch the above video. Not only does Blizzard have an insanely huge looking 24/7 gym and cafeteria, they are also in possession of a museum o' Blizzard parapherna...
TurpsterVision: Battle of the Beards
Every Tuesday think "T" for Turpster and take the "a" in "day", capitalise it, remove the little bit in the middle, turn it upside down and you get a "V". Put the two together and you'll have TV for TurpsterVision -- the best Internet video podcast on Massively! (Never mind that business about it ...
One Shots: Demonic transportation
There's nothing quite like the feel of getting a cool mount, we think. When you add cool looking mount to cool looking area, you just can't beat that. Today's One Shot comes to us from Silmathralia of Clan Canada from the Lightbringer server in World of Warcraft. She tells us: I took [this picture...
ABC Island anniversary tonight!
That's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and not that other ABC in the United States of America. Partner and counterpart to the United Kingdom's BBC, "Aunty" ABC occupies a special place in the hearts of Australians. Oh, she gets some teasing sometimes -- but she's been with us since 1929 wi...
Digimon MMO Coming to North America
It may have been a few years since you heard the catchy theme to the Digimon television show. You may not even accurately recall this Pokemon-esque animation/manga/toy/game empire. But the digi-pets are still out there, and soon they'll be returning to the shores of North America in the form of a pa...
Cinemassively: The Making of Second Life
Newer Second Life residents may associate the popular blog, New World Notes, with Hamlet Au. The oldbies, however, know him as the former Hamlet Linden. He was hired five years ago by Linden Lab to be an embedded reporter in-world. He left a couple of years ago to write a novel about his experiences...
Daily WoW News
WoW Rookie: Account Security Basics Recently we've had several posts about being hacked, guild banks assaulted, and Blizzard's typical response. The Customer Service Forum is filled with threads started by desperate World of Warcraft players seeking the return of their accou...
Losing influence with SOE: EQ2 Flames admin "LFG" tells all
He is an EverQuest 2 player that rose to power leading one of the largest fansite communities. He earned the esteemed "Community Influencer" rank that opened the gates to game designers and allowed him to forge ties with prominent SOE staff. With his connections it wasn't long before the site he ...
Corum Online's leveling dungeons
MMOFury has a short interview up with Elliot Coward of Corum Online, a free-to-play, microtransaction-funded MMO (from the same company that runs Flyff and a few more originally Korean games). Corum has a nice little twist though -- in this game, not only do players level up, but so do dungeons. D...
Mercedes Benz closes current Second Life presence
Mercedes Benz has closed their presence in Second Life, according a post on their blog yesterday. Dated the 18th of March, the post said they were going to close the virtual site same day, and that they were happy with the results. "This brief and exciting foray into virtual communities brought us...
TR's PAUs: batteries included, some assembly required
Giant, walking, robotic instruments of death. There's just something about them that appeals to us as geeks. Sure, it might be more practical to build a tank or an airplane as an instrument of war, but you don't get that same rush as you do when you see a bipedal weapons platform in motion. As we'...
AoC class interview: Tempest of Set
Last Age of Conan class interview we had a look at the Priest of Mitra, and now we're closing the chapter on the priest archetype with the Tempest of Set interview at Ten Ton Hammer. The Tempest is a mix of a few of the older classes, and will be known for its healing, AoE damage, and crowd control ...
Game Informer gets some Stargate goodies
A new issue of the popular print magazine Game Informer has an in-depth Q&A with creative director Chris Klug and studio head Dan Elggren from Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment about Stargate Worlds. While you can get a sneak peek from Game Informer's website, you need to have a subscription to ...
Pirates of the Burning Sea gets its first major content patch
Flying Lab Software has issued a press release to say that Pirates of the Burning Sea will be receiving its first major content patch today, Tuesday the 18th of March. This will bring the game to build 1.2.67, and the press release includes a few of the highlights that are in the update. These inclu...
The Daily Grind: Concentration buffs
Over at Kill Ten Rats, Zubon brought up the topic of concentration buffs. For those that don't know, a concentration buff is one that only needs to be cast once and will remain until canceled, and takes up a certain portion of the caster's "concentration" (as a way of limiting the number of perma-bu...
Visions of Global Justice
This coming Wednesday, 19 March, the USC Network Culture Project will feature the work of thirteen talented virtual world artists on the theme of justice, all specifically created for this event to celebrate the International Criminal Court. The artists involved are a talented set indeed from visua...
Watch the first installment of MMOvie
It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here: the first installment of the MMOvie is live. You've probably already seen the fantastic trailer from last summer. In case you haven't, here's the hook: it's a machinima set in World of Warcraft that acts as a pastiche of both online games and po...
Second Life daily news
Second Life daily news: 12,639 new signups bringing the total to 12,882,615 signups. The 13 millionth signup is due in just over 8 days, at current median signup rates. A peak concurrency of 61,320 at 3:20PM, and a minimum concurrency of 32,687 at 1:10AM. Median concurrency for the day w...
Counting the coppers
Yesterday in Second Life we: Spent US$1,514,000 at an exchange rate of L$267.4 to US$1 Exchanged US$271,000 at an average of US$11,300.0 per hour. Market buys were US$194,000 Market sales were US$76,000 Limit-limit buys were US$900 The busiest time was at 6pm when about US$24,000 was...
llMozlib2 source code now available
The source code for llMozlib2 (an essential piece of glue library enabling in-world and in-viewer HTML rendering for Second Life) is now available on Linden Lab's public subversion version control system, and is now the single source of the code, rather than having a second (possibly divergent) vers...
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