Archive for September, 2008

Another One Bites the Dust: Reuters Leaves Second Life

Well it has finally happened. After many problems including the Reuters Second Life site being down, and decreasing posting frequency, Reuters is leaving Second Life.

Or more specifically Eric Kragel known as Eric Reuters is leaving. He is taking a position with the Silicon Alley Insider. This is the second [...]

Gaute Godager Game Director of Age of Conan Resigned

Gaute Godager the Age of Conan Game Director recently resigned. Guate was a founder of Funcom and has been with the company for 14 years.

Craig Morrison took over and is working to address player concerns and save this faltering MMO. Some of the comments have been harsh critisizing [...]

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures an M Rated MMOG approaches 500,000 Subscribers

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an M Rated MMOG. This massively multiplayer online role playing game had a great start but has come under fire from players due to bugs and missing features.
Subscribers began dropping. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures now has a new game director and is [...]

Second Life Reaches 71,232 concurrent users

In a large milestone Second Life has reached over 71,000 concurrent users. This is an increase of six percent and perhaps the best measure of the growth of Second Life. Linden Lab attributes this to a more simpler registration process and viewer stability and other network improvements.

Outages are supposidly down twenty [...]

RobotGalaxy Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game Under Developement: Raises $5 Million

Robotgalaxy recently received five million dollars in round two funding. This toy robot builder will create an online virtual store to take robots kids build on virtual adventures. This is a natural expansion of the current business model of creating a toy robot and programming it’s movements.

I expect this to be a [...]

Lego Batman The Video Game Doesn’t Just have his Utility Belt Painted On

Lego Batman the Video Game just came out and it is pretty good. The Lego Caped Crusader and Lego Robin fight evil in Gotham City along with Nightwing against all the top Batman villians.
You can be a criminal such as the Joker, Penguin, Scarecrow, Catwoman, and more. Lego Batman’s utility belt [...]

Burning Life 2008 Today through Oct 5

Burning Life, the virtual version of the Burning Man Festival is running today from Saturday at 9 am until October 5th. The event will be held in the Burning Life virtual sim. It includes art exhibits, live music, events, and more.
This is an interesting look into the creators of Second Life [...]

Videos: Exploring the World of Spore: Cell - Tribal - Creature - Space Stages

Now that Spore is out there have been mixed reviews. But the 4 stages of Spore are really interesting.
Check out an overview video of Spore gameplay:

Different Stages of the Game:
1. Cell Stage
2. Tribal Stage
3. Creature Stage
4. Space Stage
Spore Gameplay- Cell Stage Video

This is very interesting and would make [...]

Videos: Ultimate Spore Creature Creator Dance Off Winners Announced

Spore had an Ultimate Spore Creature Creator Dance Off. I included the Spore Video entries below:
First Place went to Vapor1ze and his creature Funky Flippers:

These penguin like creatures were very realistic and got down with themselves.
Second Place in the Ultimate Spore Creature Creator Dance Off went to MattGeerVids - Olde Prospectbear Dance:

This creature looked [...]

Google Lively API Will Allow Developers to Create Content, and Even Entirely New 3d Games

In Google Lively you can embed YouTube videos, weather reports, or any other Google Gadgets. Soon developers will have access to an API for creating elements for Google Lively. Google wants a virtual arcade where developers can use the Google Lively API to create games in the virtual world.
Eventually entire 3D [...]