Category Archives: Entertainment

Entropia Universe: Earn real money with an MMORPG

Posted on May 8, 2008 by marcus

Some time during Summer 2007 while reading up on the CryEngine 2, the technology behind the first person shooter Crysis, I came across an article that mentioned a company that was licensing the engine for their upcoming virtual world. So … Continue reading →

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SLBuzz.com snapshots are working again!

Posted on February 23, 2008 by marcus

Earlier today Torley Linden contacted me to let me know that SLBuzz had stopped processing postcards sent from within Second Life. Turns out that the issue was that the format of the embedded meta data had changed which the parser … Continue reading →

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MetaverseData beta starts

Posted on December 26, 2007 by marcus

The key problem with developing for Second Life thus far has always been the less than sufficient APIs that Linden Lab offers. When it comes to communicating with objects in-world, you have the choice of the reliably broken XML-RPC, polling … Continue reading →

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Speedier IMs

Posted on August 10, 2007 by marcus

I fixed a bug. Now sending in-world IMs, adding someone to the friends list, and sending email from profiles should be snappier. Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

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Skiing in the nude

Posted on March 14, 2007 by marcus

Well that was not exactly what I had hoped for. So I'm on the Weather Island, which looks great. Extreme skiing sounds like fun, so I bought my set of utilities (boots, skiis and poles). I ski in RL so … Continue reading →

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