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Scott Jennings

Set Your Phasers On Snark

Wil Wheaton reviews Star Trek: Next Generation. Holy triphasic dilithium, this is good stuff. One of Geordi’s first stops is to visit his good pal Wesley Crusher, who shows off one of his science projects (a mini tractor beam,) and one of his toys, a device that lets Wesley

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Blizzard: Splitting Servers Whether You’re Ready Or Not

Clearly, Blizzard is getting ready for the onrush of reactivated accounts for Burning Crusade by any means necessary. Will I be able to choose my new realm? When a realm is chosen to undergo a split, an in-game message at the character-selection screen will prompt all affected players to choose

Second Life Releases Open Source Client

Very interesting. I expect we’ll see more of this in the future. It’s not like black hats can’t reverse engineer your packet protocol a few hours after you patch, anyway. Of course, this wouldn’t be a Second Life story without wackily surreal PR. “We feel we

Of Metaverses And Flying Phalluses

The always amusing Warren Ellis has a story filed with Reuters about pretty much everything Second Life recently, from the hoofrah over “Resident” numbers to the phallocentric attack on Anshe Chung. There are two dominant perceptions of Second Life right now. Due to what some see as clever presentation of

That’s Certainly One Way To Look At It

Tobold has a canceled World of Warcraft account (being one of them Eurotypes he migrated to closer shores when the European servers opened), so he received (and helpfully reposted) Blizzard’s mash note to ex-subscribers. Blizzard Entertainment proudly invites you to return to the World of Warcraft on January 16th

No Battlestar For You!

Vivendi Denies Battlestar Galactica MMO, Sort Of Note that these kind of denials almost always mean “well yeah, but we’re not announcing it until our big coming out party in a month.”