Yesterday on Massively: December 12, 2007
An amazing storm of news and a good solid Digg later, and the SLverse is starting to calm back down. Questions still remain, but only time will likely answer those lingering concerns as to the direction Second Life will take in the future. Meanwhile, in many other games, there were lawsuits and patches and bugs, oh my! If you missed out on some news amidst all the hubub — or want to review the fray, here's our handy roundup for you.
Features
- The Daily Grind: Dear Santa, I've been very good this year...
- Gamer Interrupted: Playing together with different playstyles
- Cinemassively: Re-Imagining Boston City Hall Plaza Using Second Life
- One Shots: Your character here!
- Building a better MMOusetrap: Why we fight!
- As the Worlds Turn: Land of the Free
General news
- Fury introduces free-to-play option
- GigaMedia partners with XLGames for world-rocking new MMO
- Lineage II: The Kamael live today
- Pirates of the Burning Sea developer journal: It's Good to Group
- Someone just blew Chunks
- Perpetual plot thickens: lawsuit filed
- SWG Chapter 8 patch notes up on Test Center
- Military Surplus not without bugs
- Vanguard's much-anticipated Game Update 3 is live
- Lord of the Rings Online headed to Korea
- Nielsen ratings say WoW is top dog of the PC domain
- Dr. Phil comes off as pro-MMO
City of Heroes / City of Villains
Second Life
- Peering inside – What does Cory Ondrejka's departure mean?
- Second Life's Cory = Apple, Inc.'s Woz
- Big business analysts looking more kindly on Second Life once again.
- Very short notice rolling restart for the Second Life Grid
- New Second Life release candidate 1.18.6(RC1)