Here’s a fascinating work of machinima utilizing the Second Life game engine. The web show series is called SlipStream, made by volunteers of the online virtual world Second Life and produced by Jim Gustafson. The show is reminiscent of the old G4 show Portal, but with less humor and superior directing/editing. Enjoy the first episode, titled The Future is Hear.

News broke out yesterday when the game client source code of EVE Online was leaked via torrent and first made available on The Pirate Bay. The torrent included a chat transcript between the leaker and a CCP representative. Apparently, the leaker was concerned about the rampant abuse of bots and scripts in EVE online and was attempting to coerce CCP into taking stricter action regarding the issue. CCP is obviously not happy about the incident and is censoring the forums of any mention of the situation. Here’s a partial excerpt of the transcript:

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Mungo Creations has recently opened up a preview of its social networking web service MMOSocial, a gaming community portal that allows members to connect with other MMO gamers, write blogs, post messages, upload content, make friends and manage guilds/clans, for instance, scheduling in-game events and raids. The site is still in beta testing stages.

“MMOSocial will build on more than the common communication layers that anchor many community sites today, such as forums and generically embodied social sites. We are bringing a modular extension to the Massively Multiplayer Online services industry that will grow to feature advanced custom components or add-ons, and in return boost the experience for gamers and guilds. In this way, gamers will remain engrossed as allies and enemies that are similarly found within each style of massively multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft World of Warcraft Friends, Lord of the Rings Online, and upcoming titles such as Age of Conan Age of Conan Friends and Warhammer Online Warhammer Online Friends.” - Thomas Gobuzas, Co-Founder of MMOSocial

K2 Network announced today that their 2D MMORPG was the only MMO to be selected for players to compete in at World Cyber Games 2008. Red Stone is a 2D fantasy MMORPG with some interesting and unique systems and features. The U.S. version is currently being hosted at Gamers First.

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There’s no indication that the GameSpot fallout will be dissipating soon as Brad Shoemaker, the 8 year veteran, is now the latest GameSpot staff member to make his exit from Cnet’s gaming website colossus, adding his name to likes of Jeff Gerstmann, Tim Tracy, Prank Provo, Alex Navarro, Ryan Davis, Jason Ocampo and Rich Gallup.

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Gamers around the world are rejoicing as ex-Gamespot editors Jeff Gerstmann, Alex Navarro and Ryan Davis have unveiled their new site that will carry on the original GameSpot legacy that was notoriously crushed late last year by Joshua Larsen, who replaced Greg Kasavin as director of industry products for CNET’s Games & Entertainment.

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