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02.12.09Free Your Avatar: X-Box Live Lets LooseX-Box Live is allowing you to free your avatar in time for Valentines Day. The simple application lets you port your avatar off the X-Box platform and send photos of it to friends. "The updated ‘Free Your Avatar’ tool will provide brand new backgrounds and props for every occasion including birthday backgrounds, party hats and balloons. Additionally, people will be able to upload their very own backgrounds: Place your avatar in front of famous landmarks you’ve always wanted to visit, or insert your avatars into your favorite movie scene. " I've often wondered why you can't do the same in Second Life. ...
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06.30.08Second Life on the XBox, PS3 and iPhoneSpeculation about the announcement due from Linden Lab at the end of the SL5B celebrations has run the gamut from a lowering of tiers, to a Mozilla-like open sourcing of the code, to "who cares, it's unstable anyways". Now, a blank page on the Second Life site may hold a clue, or may be a hoax by some coder with lots of time on his hands or big dreams. The following is embedded in the source code of a blank page: "placeholer page for XBOX, PS3, and iPhone versions of client when they launch next real soon now" Fun to dream anyways.
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06.18.08Customizable Avatars: Microsoft Jumps InAhead of the release of Sony's Home this fall, Microsoft has leaked plans to include avatars on the XBox platform in a bid not to be left behind on the avatar express. Joystiq picked up the image above and comments that the "information lines up nicely with details recently relayed to Joystiq by a trusted source, who tells us that a robust "avatar" (source's term) creation service which blends the customization options of Home with the in-game functionality of Miis would comprise a substantial chunk of the 360's fall update. With the breath of E3 hot upon our nape, we're sure ...
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