The most successful virtual world: Nintendo Wii
Here’s an astounding statistic: nearly 36 million Nintendo Wii consoles have been sold, and that’s a conservative figure. The Wii is streets ahead of the Sony Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360, and is likely to eclipse behemoths like the Playstation 2 – Sony have shifted nearly 120 million of those but the Wii is [...]
Saddle Club virtual world on the way
A Canadian digital entertainment company, GS New Media, have announced development of a virtual world based on The Saddle Club ™ TV show, a Canadian (Protocol Entertainment) and Australian (Crawford Productions) co-production. It’s a show targeted squarely at pre-teen kids with a heavy female slant.
Crawford Productions Pty Ltd. (Australia) and Protocol Entertainment, Inc. (Canada)
The [...]
‘Amazing Worlds’ release pictures and video
I received a media release from Amazing Worlds (formerly Mirror Worlds), to announce some pictures and video of their offering, which is still under development.
The photos are located here or check out the video on You Tube :
The new information shows that Amazing Worlds is well underway and it certainly has a Second Life feel [...]
Singapore’s Mirror World shows business promise
I received a press release today from Singapore-based company ‘Virtual Worlds’, touting their Mirror World which is under development and due for launch at the end of this year. The full text of the press release is below by essentially it’s a platform that will allow creation of replicas of real-world locations for the purpose [...]
VastPark evolution continues
VastPark is a platform we’ve covered a number of times, mainly because of its Australian roots. There’s been some further development occur, with launch of forums and some new features in the software itself:
1. Support for 3D audio and ability to script sound effects to occur on certain events.
2. Chase controller: “Attach objects to each [...]
Project Outback bites the dust
At SLOz we’ve covered Project Outback a couple of times (here and here), mainly because its CEO, Rand Leeb-du Toit, is Australia-based and was rightly touting an upcoming new virtual world competitor.
On Rand’s blog yesterday, I noticed the following few words: “since the demise of the virtual world I was working on”, so I’m [...]
