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"I just talked 'e' the Xbox Live Director of Operations (his team is working on today's maintenance) and I am happy to report that things are progressing along nicely. I don't have an ETA when the service will come back online, or rather he would not give me one. The good news is that I am able to share tomorrow's Arcade title: 'Lumines Live!'"

[via: Xbox Live's Major Nelson]

Reuters today announced that it will be launching a news bureau in the game Second Life. Starting Wednesday of this week, the news service will provide text, photo and video news from the outside world for those in the game. They will also provide Second Life news for those outside the game at secondlife.reuters.com/.

Adam Pasick will be Reuters' virtual bureau chief, and goes by the name of Adam Reuters in game. He ventured, "As strange as it might seem, it's not that different from being a reporter in the real world. Once you get used to it -- it becomes very much like the job I have been doing for years."

[via: GameDaily BIZ]

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From BoingBoing:

Grey Goo melting online world Second Life

A "griefer" -- person who disrupts video-games -- is attacking the online world Second Life with self-replicating "grey goo" that is melting down the Second Life servers. "Grey goo" is shorthand for an apocalyptic nano-gone-wrong scenario wherein nanoassemblers replicate so profligately that they reduce the world to slurry.

4:55pm PST: There was a slight delay to our rolling restart while we continued our investigation. The rolling restart should begin soon, if you are currently in-world you will get a warning before your region is restarted - allowing you to teleport to another region. We hope to have logins open again very soon. Thanks again for everyone¹s patience during this issue.
4:35pm PST: As part of our effort to counter the recent grey goo attacks, we¹re currently doing a rolling restart of the grid to help clean it out, this means each region will be restarted over the course of the next few hours. Thanks again for your patience.

4:15pm PST: We are still in the process of investigating the grid-wide griefing attacks, as such we have momentarily disabled scripts and ³money transfers to objects² as well on the entire grid. We apologize for this and thank for your patience. As soon as I have more information, I will pass it along.

No one reads this anymore I am sure, but we are working 24/7 on this new adidas push. Somehow we got ourselves into launching three major site initiatives on the same day. Basketball, Soccer and a cross vertical customer VIP site called "The Underground". Tonight my boy was reviewing the basketball asset request list for an ecommerce site... enter AIM

manEVB: glitter tank? really?
KatHunterEVB: ??
manEVB: one of the assets they are requesting that we include
KatHunterEVB: in what
manEVB: eCom site
KatHunterEVB: haha
KatHunterEVB: hahahahaha
manEVB: wow
KatHunterEVB: where the fuck is my glitter tank
KatHunterEVB: you know, the one with the performance logo
manEVB: the one the ballers wear
KatHunterEVB: omg HA

ok, guess you had to be sleep deprived.