Second Life: Best quote on what it is

We documented some background information on Second Life a few weeks ago. Now Robert Scoble has provided us with the best definition from an interview he has done last week at LIFT show in Geneva:
He was interviewing Sister Judith Zoebelein, who manages the Vatican’s Web site and asked her:
“… do you think we’ll soon go [...]

Games: Clayman’s Dancing Chicken

Nice time waster with good sound quality. Move the mouse over the displayed keyboard to have the chicken dance…

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Second Life: Finally some useful numbers and it’s 20,000 not 2 Millions

Linden Labs Second Life really had it the last days. First the press stops praying and hyping and gets a bit more critical - see this “Boing Boing” article to name just one - and then their whole system came to a halt yesterday and is now slowly coming back up again. But what we were really waiting for and couldn’t find was that someone puts that whole hype back in line - so we provide you the figures ourselves…
…[see figures in article]…
…We think its time to get back to real life and see “Second Life” as what it is - just one of many online games with some success. On the charts with the Asian figures alone you would have problems to plot the numbers for Second Life as they are so much smaller than even those from games with medium success. And that’s after all the hype and massive increase in user numbers for Second Life…

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Games: Homer Sculpture Puzzle

This 3D sculpture of Homer Simpson is actually 150 jigsaw puzzles. Each of the puzzles form a full color image but the edges are left gray. Once all of the puzzles are completed…

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Battle of Game Consoles: Wii (+38) - PS3 (-406)

The business with game consoles is seemingly a rather special one where manufacturers are subsidizing their hardware in hope to make a profit with royalties from games. Not so with the most successful one of them, Nintendo that follows a different approach…
…The Japanese Magazine has broken down the costs for the Wii (USD 158.30) and PS3 (USD 805) as shown in the table on the right…
…So even when the prices would deteriorate Nintendo will be ahead. And with with its Wii console leading the sales charts, Nintendo’s different business model might pay double…

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CityPixel: Social Network 3D pixel world

For those of you who could never get enough of playing SimCity there is a new social Network site that with its pixel graphics look much like the popular game. CityPixel is a pixel based 3D city (New York) where you can move around, enter buildings, buy apartments, chat, blog, share videos etc, play games, and socialize…

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Video: Life-Space-Invaders and Life-Pong

Guillaume Reymond, head of the Swiss communication agency NOTsoNOISY had a great idea for their participation in the 2006 Belluard Bollwerk International festival in Fribourg. After their success with Life-Pong in 2005 they got almost 70 people together and created a Life version of arcade game classic Space Invaders. Unfortunately the videos are not shown on their web site anymore, but after looking around a bit we found them on the web (links below)…

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Games: Dynamic Flow experiences

Two often overlooked but beautiful games are the Cloud game and flOw. Both are great examples of flow in games or visualizations. Watch the introduction video of Cloud online or play flOw just to let you calm down by the music.
Jenova Chen who worked on the creation of these games has some background information on [...]

Sheep dash: How fast are your reactions?

Another BBC link - but it’s pretty good so we had to include it.In their Science and Nature section Auntie has put up a neat little time waster game.And remember …Tiredness can affect your reaction times…

Click on the image for the jump (flash game)

USD 20,000 Flash game development contest

The popular gamer web site AddictingGames has opened a flash game development contest with over USD 20,000 in prize money, plus promotion of the winners on the AddictingGames site.
All games submissions must be new games and you must own the rights. They have to be authored in Flash and must be under 3 megs [...]