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"It's a thought that has crossed every one of our minds at one time or another "I want to make money from games". The smarter, more dedicated amongst us become game designers, develop amazing intellectual properties and make game publishers a ton of money. The ones among us with less programing skill and more laziness try to go on separate routes. Some try to put their bank robbing skills, which they honed in GTA, to practical use. Hint this is not the best way to go about earning money, mostl..."
Microsoft owning 2nd Life? Don't they pretty much own our first one? Yep, that's the latest rumor to hit the mill. Read on Ripten to discover more!
"Australia's censorship crusade continues! Yesterday, we talked about how the Australian government was about to start censoring the Internet, and today we find out that Second Life is also about to be blocked. I think the country is only one step away from burning people at the stake for crimes of witchcraft.
Minister Stephen Conroy has confirmed that online adult games, including Second Life, will be barred under the ministry's sinister "filtering plan." The censorship will extend beyond..."
"Ever since PlayStation Home was first announced in January 2007, people have been calling it Second Life for the PlayStation 3. We take a look at what separates these two very different virtual worlds.
Having been immersed in Second Life for the better part of two years now, I first ventured into the virtual world due to the initial impressions that PlayStation Home was a clone of the popular online community for the PlayStation 3. Now having spent a significant amount of time exploring wh..."
""I went mad - I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done," Amy said, of finding her feckless hubby having pretend sex in a game with a stranger.
"I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It's cheating as far as I'm concerned."
"The solicitor wasn't at all surprised - she said it was her second divorce case involving Second Life that week," she added.
Amy's Second Life alter-ego was called Laura Skye. Pollard's was call..."
Erin Hoffman over at The Escapist has run through several legal issues surrounding gaming, and how gamers can, and need to protect themselves.
From legal action to items "stolen" in-game, to fighting EULAs, and of course... DRM - we have rights.
She cites several court cases involving these key issues as well - worth while to be knowledgeable about (and makes for an interesting conversation piece too.)
In 2006, US Congress passed a bill titled the 'Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act'. As part of this bill - the Government is attempting to outright ban 'games of skill' ranging from online backgammon or bridge- to even as far as Second Life. Though they cannot ban websites or applications altogether - the movement is to prevent financial institutions (including PayPal) from transferring funds to such websites.
If you live in the United States, you can automatically inform your cong...
Any excuse to write about Cthulhu is a good excuse by me.
Eureka Dejavu was recently seen in the world of Second Life modelling this "fetal Cthulu bouff wig", created by Rikka Koi, who designed it for the Hair Fair (I assume a Second Life event).
If you aren't familiar with the greatness that is Cthulu, Koi explains:
Hp Lovecraft wrote these incredibly bizarre, dramatic stories about a great dark being who travelled the cosmos and kind of landed on Earth, who currently sleeps in the...
The United States Congress has finally gone virtual! A subcommittee meeting of the House of Representatives was held yesterday on children's safety in virtual worlds. However, this meeting is a first for Congress as it was also simulcast on Second Life. People that logged in on Second Life to watch the meeting were able to be seen on television screens scattered around the meeting room by the people that were in DC, while the people from Second Life could watch the meeting through a screen...
"With the stock market growing increasingly skittish, these are uncertain financial times. That is, unless you're hawking wares in Linden Lab's Second Life, the popular PC life simulation/virtual world whose generation of real-world cash with in-game real estate deals have created at least one real-world millionaire.
This week, Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale told Business 2.0 the scale of trade in Second Life. He estimates that virtual merchants make over $1.3 million every day hawking in-..."
It's not like our very first life is free from terrorism, and it seems that our Second Life is now also being targetted by terrorists. Recently there have been many attacks, many deaths and no captures, the reason is that the terrorists are doing all this in the virtual world known as Second Life.
It's not just gamers that are interested in Second Life but terrorists, and that too for a completely different reason. Second Life provides them with the perfect place to reherse their operatio...
In an interesting development in the internet virtual community, "Second Life", Kevin Alderman, a self proclaimed enterpreneur in the game is suing a profile of another user for supposedly copying his virtual device, "Sex gen", which is a virtual sex toy developed by Alderman for Second life users and getting profits which are supposed to be entitled to Alderman.
According to Alderman, He may be using the device for a cyber reality, however since it is bringing in real profits for him, he ...
Ever wanted to play game where you could explore a virtual Tokyo? Well in the simulation game 'Second Life' that is exactly what you'll be able to do. Tetsuya Mizuguchi, is creating the virtual tokyo for the game and has plans to put in a giant ski ramp in the middle of the city for people to do signatures for their profiles throught the jumps..
English police officers plan on posting "Child Missing" posters in some of the most popular areas of the game. You see, an adorable moppet namedMadeleine McCann went missing recently, and the bobbies think she might be in Second Life... or, more accurately and less snarkily, the po-po think someone in the game might have some leads as to her whereabouts.
They are truly trying everything to find this girl, although the implications that child-abductors spend their free time hanging out in S...
I've tried this game myself and it's actually like living real life except nearly everything you want to do in this must be paid for, except playing the game. This game lives up to it's name 'Second Life' as your second life in the virtual world. Going to Destiny Island from the game Kingdom Hearts to visiting Midgar from Final Fantasy it's all in here.
Now moving on to child porn is very offensive and illegal. Even though it's meant to be a second life, this doesn't mean all the illegal ...
"I dreamed up any excuse I could with my family to tell them I needed to get online for a few minutes here and there, he says. It was pathetic. Thats where the lines get blurry, says P. Shavaun Scott, a marriage and family therapist from San Luis Obispo, Calif.
If people are getting their needs for love, attention, intimacy, companionship and sex from somewhere else, I think its cheating, she says. And, if theyre keeping their relationship a secret from their real-life partner."
