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Game week at Orange Island
Orange Island (home of French global telecommunications franchise, Orange) is hosting a week of gaming and game-related events and discussions in Second Life this coming week, including (of course) some games. Starting Monday, 26 May on Orange Island, there's a packed schedule of events. Some particularly not-to-be-missed sessions include An Overview of Games in Second Life by the redoubtable Onder Skall at 11AM Monday, 26 May; Second Life as a Gaming Platform : challenges & opportunities, moderated by our very own Akela Talamasca at Noon Tuesday, 27 May; Midgar & World of Hogwarts with Luthien Biziou at 1:30PM Tuesday, 27 May; Roleplaying in SL moderated by Fab Outlander. All times are in SLT (US Pacific time). There's plenty for gaming aficionados of all stripes from video game music covers and jousting to an arcade gaming and an art display.
Last week on Massively: WoW-related stories
This week's round up of WoW-related posts on our sister site Massively covers many different angles of the MMO universe dominated by World of Warcraft. You can click on the links below or subscribe to a special WoW-only Massively feed.Wrath of the Lich King could be very very sneakyIs Wrath going to launch as early as Spring? Kyle Horner explores the possibilities.Are games Art? It doesn't matterDoes an MMO have to qualify as "art" to be good? Akela Talamasca looks into the theory and how it applies to our beloved World of Warcraft.MMOs: the finishing schools of the InternetAre MMOs the online equivalent of real world girls schools for social training? Chris Colon thinks so. Read on to find out why.
Facebook deletes account with pseudonym; Second Lifers could be affected.
Jon Swift, a 2007 finalist for the Weblog Awards in the Funniest Blog category, operates under a fake name. Many of us do this today. I blog, Twitter, and use many other social networks as moo Money, my Second Life name. For Facebook, though, virtual identity isn't enough. Jon logged into his account this week only to discover that it had been deleted, citing a Terms of Service violation for not using his real name.I know many Second Life residents that don't use their real names for Facebook. In the end, Jon's account was reinstated, but is this an ongoing process? Weren't his 200 friends enough evidence that he was a real entity not out to dupe anyone? What happens when they determine that Akela Talamasca is fake? Leave a comment and let us know what you think about this one.
