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Posted on May 14, 2007 by Scott Jennings| 12 Comments

BusinessWeek reports breathlessly that Second Life may have some new competition: get this – people are playing online games not called Second Life! I know, I don’t believe it either. But it’s true!

Suddenly it looks as if Second Life, that 3D virtual world that last year became a favorite hangout for hard-core techies and trend-watching corporations, has competition. A new crop of online multiplayer games is coming, targeting a broader audience with simpler navigation and customization than Second Life. These games also rule out lewd behavior.

It’s a wacky thing, going up against Second Life, but it just! might! work!

Also in other mainstream media accomplishments: according to Time, Philip Rosedale, head of Second Life’s Linden Labs, is one of the 100 most important people in the world, edging out Kim Jong Il AND Lindsay Lohan. The justice, I tell you. The SPACE JUSTICE.

(Businessweek mockery nicked from Alice)

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  • http://ambernight.org Amber

    I hear Blizzard’s got this little Second-Life clone with like swords and elves and cartoon monsters and stuff. It’s so crazy it just might work.

  • http://www.beafraid.com Hellfire

    Wait, hard-core techies and trend-watching corporations are playing SecondLife? There must be a shortage of cocks in trendy corporate America these days…

  • scottj

    Clearly you’ve never worked in trendy corporate America.

  • perianwyr

    In second life, you can feel the power of griefing brought down to the coppery-tasting bare metal.

    Just socializers vs. killers. The way God intended.

  • Wolfe

    Second Life rejected me, but I had fun for about 10 minutes pushing others together. Almost like a little herd dog minigame.

  • damijin

    Isn’t pushing people around while dressed to kill in your slickest phallic warrior garb the primary focus of SL?

    I must have been playing wrong.

  • snarf

    Second Life is concrete proof that what everyone really wants is user-craftable fetapults.

  • Ironwood

    Never has the ‘man with cube on his head’ picture been more appropriate.

  • Aufero

    I assumed “edging onto Second Life’s turf, using simplified features” meant they’d learned to just flat-out lie about subscription rates instead of cooking up fancy numbers.

  • http://www.plutospage.com/wow/ yunk

    He’s more important than the President of the United States too, who isn’t even on that list!

    Wow, I gotta meet this guy!

  • =j

    Just socializers vs. killers. The way God intended.

    Ah. So SL = UO2?

  • Numtini

    “These games also rule out lewd behavior”

    Then, by definition, they’re not competing with Second Life.