Evercrack Gets a Movie

What about War Crack? Isn't World of Warcraft more popular than EverQuest these days?

Backing up....

According to SciFi Wire, Sony Pictures has an EverQuest movie in the works. It's going to be about exploring the world of Norrath. We will get to see creature slaying and treasure questing. The article doesn't say if the movie will be live action or animated. I hope that it's animated. When I tried World of Warcraft, I was more impressed with the opening sequence than the game itself.

Will I see it? Dunno.

Will you?

William Gibson To Visit Second Life

How cool is that? I'm gonna be lazy and copy and paste from the publisher.

In Cyberspace everyone can hear you scream

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation ... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."

In 1984 William Gibson invented the word cyberspace in his seminal novel Neuromancer and today, nearly 25 years later, a growing and significant number of people are spending increasing amounts of time and money inside 'computer generated constructs', whether they be perhaps the most analogous to Gibson's idea of cyberspace (Second Life), game-like (World of Warcraft) or social (facebook).

So when we first started dabbling in Second Life we quickly realized that something interesting Penguin could do would be to bring William Gibson into this strange new place, a place he seemed to have predicted and described years ago (though he disputes this). Unsurprisingly many of the older residents of Second Life are hardcore sci-fi and cyberpunk fans and dotted around the virtual landscape are a number of sims with a suitably dystopian theme. And perhaps now we have a great opportunity to connect an author and his fans in a totally new, and in this case totally appropriate, environment.

Per New World Notes, Gibson will be at Nexus Prime. The appearance is slated for August 2. To attend, IM Jeremy Neumann or join the SL group "Penguin Readers".

I'm Playing World of Warcraft

After months of avoiding World of Warcraft, I finally gave in and decided to check it out. When I first bought the trial, the guy at the counter pleaded with me to not buy it or enter the game. He said that he'd seen what this game has done to his friends and wanted to warn me. He said that instead of playing this game, I should go out in the sunshine and enjoy life. Of course that made me want to play the game more.

After looking at the dang trial CD for a week, I popped it in yesterday thinking that I was going to get to play yesterday. Boy was I wrong. I had to download tons of updates and patches. After like 5 downloads, I'm finally in the game. I'm an undead Horde warrior chick. I'm going through the endless training of killing 8 zombies, killing 12 corpses, killing 6 dogs, killing 6 birds.... after the latest quest of killing 6 spiders, I'm pooped.

I guess I need to play more because I'm unimpressed with it so far. I guess I said the same thing about Second Life at first and now I love that game. I'll try to play it some more and get a feel for it but I'm ready to get out of newbie purgatory.

Lipstick Aliens 17 Lost, Torchwood, Eragon, Smallville, Games and Ships

Direct download: 017_lipstick_aliens2.mp3

Lynne and Cat return to kick off the first episode of Lipstick Aliens for 2007. Lynne catches up on Babylon 5 during her Christmas break. Favorite space ships anyone? The girls talk hot and heavy about Torchwood. Cat's cat makes an appearance. The Heroes feedback was tremendous so they talk about that and listen to voice mails. Next, we find out what Santa brought Lynne and Cat. Lynne reviews Eragon and Cat anticipates the return of Smallville. Finally, there's discussion about comic book shop experiences. The ladies close with talk of Lost and a song by Bare Naked Hurley.

LINKS

- Torchwood
- Babylon 5
- Heroes
- Podcast Peer Awards
- Podcast Pickle
- WoW Proudmore server Lynne's name Wintershart
- Second Life Cat's name Trinity Hartunian
- Smallville
- Eragon
- Lost
- Bare Naked Hurley

CONTACT INFO

lips *at* lipstickaliens *dot* com

206-338-LIPS (206-338-5477)

http://www.myspace.com/lipstickaliens

Direct download: 017_lipstick_aliens2.mp3