Wonderland

Second Life fashion: armpit hair

Okay, I know this is a graphical glitch, but it made me giggle: sequins .. and armpit hair...

It's about time pitrugs made a comeback.

Papercraft AT-ATs

Heaven.

Do they make robot AT-AT pets yet?

Quake Wars pre-order

Quake Wars is open for pre-order, and the community site is underway too ...

So pretty....

BBC to broadcast The Money Programme in Second Life

The Beeb's done a whole show on making moolah in MMOs and virtual worlds:

The possibility of making real money from virtual creations is the subject of the latest episode of BBC show The Money Programme, and reporter Max Flint explores money-making options in a variety of online worlds--including Second Life and Lord of the Rings Online. The show will also be the first by the BBC to be broadcast simultaneously on terrestrial TV and within Second Life itself.

Now all they have to do is make little in-world televisions that work like real-world tellies, because the ability to watch teevee from SL at any point in time would be .. well, just quite good.

This episode of The Money Programme can be seen on June 1 at 7 p.m. on BBC2 on conventional telly, and also at the Rivers Run Red Cinema in Second Life (coordinates 200, 123, 45) at 7 p.m., 8 p.m., and 9 p.m. BST.

Michael from Prison Break

Prepare to be creeped out!

Whilst we're rummaging Plastic & Plush, here's someone's cross-eyed, bug-eared rendition of wotsisname who plays Michael. Prison Break is like bad chocolate - horrible, but also irresistable. It's truly rotten teevee, near-misses strung together with chase scenes, and held up primarily because you really, really, really want Michael and the floppy heroin doctor to finally get it together. Which they're refusing to properly do.

ARGH! He needs lip balm, too.

The Wiseguys

I like this, this is cute, and only 95 bucks for a print: Sam Fout has done an 'interpretation' of the Mos Eisley Cantina:

Only 350 of 'em in existence though...

Lego MMO

Legomog!

"“Playing with LEGO bricks and developing online worlds are both creative activities. To bring them together is deeply professionally satisfying and we look forward to working with the LEGO team,” said Scott Brown, President of NetDevil."

Details are very thin on the ground, and NetDevil's site seems to be down, which is rather bad form. Even Google's cache from a few days ago isn't pretty. Kotaku has a good chunk of insider info though.

(Thanks Jones!)

Dungeon Runners

I'm off to London today to catch up with the home base, but in my 40m of peace at LAX after two hours of hellish checkin, these pics pop up in my flickr rss from young crecente.

I've missed much on Dungeon Runners so far - but these screenshots got me digging. It's a free-to-play RPG from NCSoft; free, that is, for basic level play. You need a registration with NCSoft, and a guest code, but the game itself is free to download too. Amazing looking for a freebie, eh?

Choose to play as Fighter, Mage or Ranger in a realm of terror, magic and adventure. Unlock powerful new skills as you gain experience on your journey into the unknown.

Whether fighting evil hordes as a lone warrior or teaming up with online friends to carve a path of destruction through your foe, Dungeon Runners will quench your  deepest dungeon-crawling thirst.

Ahuh. So, only three player-types. That's unusual, too. They're obviously aiming for a more casual audience out there, going with this quite simplified setup.

Some dungeons can be completed quickly, rewarding those who can only invest 15 minutes a play session. Greater dungeons, however, will provide a deep, rich, questing experience for those who want to go on longer runs or multi-part quests.

The dungeons themselves have a random-layout generator, by all accounts, making each run slightly different from the last.

I'd like to have a go at this - I love the budget look of the website, and the free-to-play element; the top tier gear in the game requires a pay subscription, so no epix unless you buy into the more serious levels of the game. The question is, how many folks will cough up?

I'm curious that NCSoft didn't go for a more contemporary game setting - City Runners, say; that way they could have supplemented the freebie game with in-game ads. I wonder why they didn't.

Off for 3 days..

It's memorial weekend here, and also my birthday, so m'off into the woods for a bit.

Back soon!

Hmf.

Oh Bloglines plumber,
You're fixing teh pipes, again:
no posting for me.