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Kimberly Jernigan, a 33-year-old woman from North Carolina, was arrested by the New Castle County Detectives after she tried to kidnap her ex-boyfriend using a gun, duct tape and a pair of handcuffs. The two had engaged in a relationship after virtually meeting in the social network Second Life. Jernigan, whose avata... |
26 August 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Although online applications that imply some virtual reality features are often criticized by those who consider them barriers to real life interaction, studies prove there really is no need to worry. Eryn Grant, a PhD student at the School of Humanities, Queensland University of Technology, conducted a study that sh... |
21 July 2008
08:08 GMT |
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When someone thinks of a "virtual world," Second Life immediately springs to mind. It is widely popular and talked about in many traditional media outlets. It also sparked debate on a number of issues, from virtual rights of ownership to virtual sexual contact. A team from Sony wants to change all that and PlayStati... |
25 February 2008
03:50 GMT |
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Vollee, the US-based mobile entertainment company, announced it would bring the Second Life experience to 3G mobile phones. Beta trials of Second Life for mobiles will be open to users starting May 2008 and will be free of charge. If you don't know what Second Life is, we'll tell you. It's a sort of... |
23 February 2008
04:40 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is one of the most successful MMORPGs, if not THE Game. It boasts over 10 million users worldwide and it is, for many people, their second life. Unfortunately, it also is a second life that interferes with the real one and it has some pretty bad side effects. One of them is the divorce itself - one ... |
18 February 2008
03:51 GMT |
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It's no secret that the virtual world is slowly taking over the real life (I should say "unfortunately" here, right?). And since the folks from NASA probably know that way better than everybody else, they are considering now to create a MMO game to appeal to the next generation of game-addicted scientists and e... |
21 January 2008
03:49 GMT |
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The extent to which Second Life has reached the online community looks troubling to me, and if I were to be in charge of anything at all related to it, I would most likely shut the whole project down. You know, the usual "why go to work with your avatar and do what you do in the real life anyway" kind of issue that y... |
9 January 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Second Life's popularity has hit Japan as well and they are now working on ways to develop the technology needed for bringing it on their mobile phones as well. It's all pretty close to becoming true as the service will be released before the holidays. The service is targeted at DoCoMo handsets from the 3G... |
2 November 2007
05:09 GMT |
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Second Life gamers can finally benefit from a cash alternative according to official word from Linden (the developer), who claims that - by stepping up to the Ukash terminals located in the Bulido Money Service outlets in the virtual world of Second Life - residents can now use Ukash cash vouchers to redeem Linden Do... |
17 October 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Vodafone has just launched a beta version of a mobile operation in the online game Second Life that is supposed to allow people to call other Second Life avatars and connect the call to mobile phones in the physical world.The Second Life phenomenon proved to be an impressive one right from the beginning, when its pro... |
5 October 2007
09:05 GMT |
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Second Life gets the best out of real life. The famous fashion designer Giorgio Armani just introduced the phone that he designed together with Samsung in the offer of his new fashion store that he opened in this virtual world.Second Life is one of the most popular PC games that enable players to live an alternative ... |
28 September 2007
04:38 GMT |
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If there is money somewhere on the web, then there's bound to be some hacker interested in that place. But I guess you've already noticed this. In any case, Second Life makes a lot of transactions happen. In case you've never heard of it, it's an online game, with close to 10 million people involv... |
19 September 2007
04:38 GMT |
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Although it was known that the famous Second Life has a big impact in the real life for numerous registered members, it seems like the things are going to take a crazy direction. A Second Life member, Kevin Alderman, is suing another user of the famous platform, Volkov Catteneo, for copyright infringement. Let me exp... |
4 July 2007
05:50 GMT |
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An official report today reveals some interesting information about this year's Edinburgh Interactive Festival, which takes place on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 August. This year's Festival is said to focus on the cultural impact and relevance of games, also bringing together many of the industry's key de... |
26 June 2007
18:06 GMT |
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It looks like there is still hope for Sony's lagging console, the PS3. I stumbled on this interesting piece on how things evolved for the company, before Kutaragi stepped down from his position of Chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) and after such events.I am Canadian ... |
25 May 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Linden Lab's Second Life is getting the atmospheric rendering tech Windlight and the 3D cloud simulator Nimble from Windward Mark Interactive. Realism is the first thing the developer has to think about when a life sim such as Second Life is their main title. Here's why, as NextGeneration reports.Although L... |
22 May 2007
08:41 GMT |
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With the new innovative online marketing strategies that suffocate the world wide web, companies are continually rethinking new ways of attracting buyers.After thinking about female interest in mobile communication that resulted in shiny and thin devices, Samsung is preparing a major surprise for another major segmen... |
13 April 2007
05:21 GMT |
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Second Life is so popular and addictive that people stop doing whatever it is they do at work to play the game. Sophos carried out a web poll of more than 450 system administrators, where 90.4 percent wanted the ability to block the unauthorized use of games at work and 62 percent indicated this was essential. Carole... |
14 March 2007
09:40 GMT |
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By now, everybody knows that Sony is soon launching their social service entitled PlayStation Home. In order to get things started and on track, first of all Sony will launch the PlayStation Home Beta Trial website. This will mean a large scale beta for the service, where you, as a PS3 owner and faithful fan, will re... |
9 March 2007
05:45 GMT |
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Designers of adult-oriented video games are trying to figure out how to attract women. Nice, I'd like to know how to do the same thing myself, but their efforts are for catching "bigger fish". So, what they're doing is attracting women in creating the ultimate lure for larger groups of male customers."Right... |
8 March 2007
09:47 GMT |
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Based on "13 Most Beautiful Women and 13 Most Beautiful Boys" of late Andy Warhol's, canvas mounted portrait prints of Second Life avatars are now available to drool over, posted by Italian artists Eva and Franco Mattes. Still, they are Second Life subscribers' creations and some of them are true masterpiec... |
8 March 2007
09:02 GMT |
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Phil Harrison's presentation at the GDC revealed a lot of what PlayStation Home will be all about, when it releases along with the European launch of the PS3. The thing is that the PlayStation Home service may prove to be just another "porn gateway." Even if the service's purpose isn't to access easily... |
8 March 2007
04:33 GMT |
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