Archive for September, 2008

Is Wink an Invasion of Privacy or another Zabba Search?

Wink is a people search index. There are now over five hundred million profiles. It indexes social network profiles. Wink has plans to increase to over one billion profiles in the next year. Wink launched in 2005 and changed in 2006 to indexing social network profiles across MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Bebo, [...]

WeeWorld Grows with over 24 Million WeeMees - Video: Family Guy WeeMees and South Park

WeeWorld has seen large growth with over 24 million WeeMee avatars created to date. WeeWorld was created in 2005 initially intended for use with Windows Messenger and AOL Messenger. WeeMee avatars chat in an interactive virtual room.
 
It looks like South Park
You can customize clothes and accessories, chat with friends, decorate your [...]

Political Poll Barack Obama vs John McCain for President in Second Life

A Political Poll in Second Life by RealClearPolitics puts Barack Obama far ahead of John McCain. In the real world it is much closer at 48.1 percent for Barack Obama compared to 45.6 percent for John McCain for President. Second Life sometimes mirrors real life but we all know surveys and polls can [...]

Free Massively Multiplayer Online: Dragonica to be Delivered by THQ to North America

Dragonica is a Massive Multiplayer Online RPG created by Barunson Interactive. The Dragonica MMO had a closed beta test on July 15, 2008 in China and Korea. The open beta test in China should come out in October 2008. We are not yet sure on the English release but THQ want to [...]

Wakfu is a MMORPG from Ankama Studio

Wakfu is a MMORPG from Ankama Studio. Wakfu is schedule to be released this year. The storyline is an interesting one about 6 Dofus dragon eggs. It is currently in closed beta. This is primarily a paid MMO with only a small sample given out for free. Wakfu is a [...]

Gameforge Unveils Official Game Trailer for Ikariam

I have written before about the Ikariam MMO. This free browser based MMO focuses on civilization in the Mediterranean.
Gameforge recently reveiled the Official Game Trailer for Ikariam. You can watch it here:

Pretty cool. A little cartoonish for my tastes however.
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The 2 Real Reasons Second Life is Successful

People talk about why Second Life is successful. Sure it was timing and was one of the first big players. Sure they had awesome news coverage and kick ass marketing. Sure they offer some of the best features and graphics out of the massively multiplayer online games out there. But the [...]

Shaiya Light and Darkness

Sonov Entertainment and Aeria Games & Entertainment has a winner with Shaiya Light and Darkness. Shaiya is free to download and play. Shaiya pits two races, the Elves and the Vail against each other and the Humans and Nordien. The two factions the Alliance of Light and Union of Fury do constant [...]

Goodbye Orientation Island - Hello Direct SLurl

Linden Labs is rolling out Direct SLurl as a way to explore the location you want in the virtual world of Second Life. This speeds up the process and bypasses Help Island or Orientation Island and instead you arrive at whatever destination peaked your interest in the first place.

But how will you know what [...]

Blizzard World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King out November 13, 2008

Blizzard World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King out November 13, 2008. This expansion pack gives the almost eleven million subscribers of World of Warcraft another continent to explore for the low cost of $39.99. You will fight new characters and the army of Northrend ruled by Lich King Arthas Menethil. [...]