“Baby Shaker” App Shakes Nerves

“On a plane, on the bus, in a theater. Babies are everywhere you don’t want them to be! They’re always distracting you from preparing for that big presentation at work with their incessant crying. Before Baby Shaker there was nothing you could do about it,”
So went the tag line for Sikalsoft’s Baby Shaker application, a [...]

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Beer, Beer, Beer – It’s What WOW Is For!

I salute anyone who refuses to take the real world seriously. So I doubly applaud those who do the same for virtual worlds. There’s a wealth of talent among the World Of Warcraft (R) players. Take, for example, this example called “The Beer Song.”

It’s over three years old but deserves an [...]

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Aion: The Tower Of Infinity

NCsoft has released a new teaser video for its currently-in-beta world, Aion. They hope to release the game in North America “soon,” which was originally slated as “2009.”

The world of Aion is described on the Aion web site as “a shattered world, separated into two halves with the Abyss between [...]

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EON’s iCube

The EON ICUBE™, is a revolutionary PC based multi-sided immersive environment in which participants are completely surrounded by virtual imagery and 3D sound. The EON ICUBE represents a significant innovative milestone in high-end visualization systems development. Typically, high-end immersive systems have until today been complex, difficult to use and expensive to maintain. Unlike the older [...]

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Elvis: Spotted In Second Life!

According to the death certificate, Elvis Aaron Presley died on August 16th, 1977. But for many die-hards, that’s simply a cover up for the day he went into hiding. For those who want “proof” that the death was orchestrated, take a peek at the Is Elvis Dead or Alive? site, where, for me, the argument [...]

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Pandas Or Penguins

Being a cute, cuddly animal in a virtual world seems to be standard fare these days. Without doubt, leveraging the appeal of penguins has been a successful marketing strategy over the past few year. The Disney(R) Club Penguin acquisition in 2007 cost an estimated $700 million and the user base at that time was 12 [...]

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Bobba: A New Virtual World For Phones

Sulake is an online entertainment company focused on virtual worlds and social networking. Currently these properties include virtual world Habbo and social networking service IRC-Galleria. However, the company has just announced a beta-test version of a new virtual world, Bobba, designed for mobile phones.
Currently it is available for a number of Nokia phones but an [...]

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Virtual Cities On An iPhone™

RayGun™ is promoted as the first application to provide what the creators, Planet 9 Studios, call “Social Navigation.” It combines GPS tracking, route finding, friend finding and social networking functions all within a state of the art 3D interface. Developed originally for Boeing and the US Army, RayGun is robust and scalable. Users and their [...]

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Spark City: New Virtual Venue for Younger Girls

Join cyber-mall rats Jessy, Yuki, and Mika on a quest to conquer the online shopperverse by signing up for the AllGirlArcade.com community.
“AllGirlArcade.com is a new gaming network based on the All Girl Star Squad, an original entertainment property created by Fuel Industries, featuring the adventures of three all-star gamers who, due to their gaming [...]

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Sony’s Free Realmz Close to Release?

Sony Online Entertainment has released an official teaser for its “in beta” game, Free Realmz. The world is billed as “a free 3D virtual world with stunning unique graphics and fun, quirky activities. Free Realms is an attitude. It’s innovative, dynamic and deep.”

The splendid flash video on the site pretty [...]

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