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One of the shops at High Fidelity’s Avatar Island. (Image courtesy High Fidelity.) High Fidelity, the new virtual world platform started by Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale, now allows its users to convert its virtual currency to real-world cash. Philip Rosedale “This opens the possibility for people to earn real money creating and selling virtual […]

True to Life horses from oYo Breedables are now on the Tag grid. (Image courtesy Constanza Amsterdam.) Breadables creator oYo, formerly based on the now-defunct InWorldz grid, has found a new home — the Tag Grid. The True to Life horses have concluded a successful beta test and will be officially released this Friday, Sept.

Elf Clan, one of the largest themed communities in OpenSim, has found a new home after the collapse of InWorldz. It will now be headquartered on OSgrid, with hypergrid linked locations on DigiWorlds, Kitely, and other hypergrid-enabled grids. Full list of affiliated locations is here. “After our experience with Second Life — $50,000 group land

  (Image courtesy OSgrid.) OSgrid, the largest grid in the OpenSim metaverse, will hold a donation carnival this month, staring on Friday, Sep. 21 and running through Sep. 28. “We are hoping to raise enough this year to do some much needed upgrades,” Koni Lanzius,  OSGrid’s donation drive coordinator, told Hypergrid Business. “The whole event

InWorldz farewell party, July 27, 2018. (Image courtesy Brooklynn Peretz‎ via Facebook.) Beth Reischl, founder and owner of the now-defunct InWorldz grid, is starting a new grid, called Islandz, she told New World Notes yesterday. The new URL has been purchased,  islandzvw.com, though there is nothing up on the site just yet. Some filtered content

In the comments section on one of the several InWorldz-related articles these past few days, I saw some people talking about whether OpenSim is safe for content. The idea being that InWorldz was somehow safer because it’s not OpenSim. First, InWorldz IS OpenSim. It’s just another fork off the OpenSim code base, like many other

If the form below doesn’t load, click here for the direct link. I’ll be posting the graph of responses and the comments right here on this page, as they come in. (Scroll down to see them.) Loading… Live poll results I know the graph above looks a little wonky — that’s the auto-update version that

OpenSim grids are welcoming former InWorldz residents with open arms, offering technical support to get their OARs uploaded, discounts on region rentals, and even free homes and stores. Scroll down for details about special offers. Where to go For people looking for a closed, commercial grid — no hypergrid travel in and out — the

The lights went out at midnight. InWorldz, one of the oldest and most successful OpenSim grids, shut down last night. And it ended in a way fitting for a social grid — with a party. “Tonight we were lucky enough to have the ability to log in and have a last hurrah at InWorldz,”  wrote

After yesterday’s announcement that InWorldz would be shutting down, grid owner Beth Reischl set up a GoFundMe page to save the grid  — and the community has stepped up in a big way. As of this writing, more than 100 residents have already contributed more than $13,000 of the $17,000 needed to keep the grid

A Mardi Gras celebration on InWorldz. InWorldz, one of the oldest and most successful commercial grids, is shutting down this week, owner Beth Reisch announced today, citing financial difficulties. According to Reischl, travel-related communication problems, bureaucratic mistakes and other issues resulted in the shutdown of the grid’s PayPal accounts and the calling in of the

Kitely’s new Welcome Center. (Image courtesy Kitely.) Kitely will soon offer the option of hosting Virtual Private Grids on top of the Kitely grid, the company announced this week. According to the company, this new offering will enable groups and organizations to benefit from Kitely’s stability, performance and ease of use while gaining a new

US $8 for a 20,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Avalon Grid. Variable-sized regions also available. Two-by-two varregion with 40,000 prims: $18 Three-by-three varregion with 60,000 prims: $30 Four-by-four varregion with 100,000 prims: $48 Add-on prims also available. More info here. Source: Hypergrid Business