AterSlash (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Second-life’s attempt to be the world’s Metaverse turned out to be just a huge advertising/hacking cluster fuck. Not saying that that Lively won’t be a advertising/hacking cluster fuck but at least it sounds it would be more open to programmers, which will allow for more diverse possibilities, so there could be just as much good stuff as bad.
Evil Avatar Forums - News Items (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
From GamesIndustry.biz: Quote: Following confirmation that Google intends to open its virtual world Lively to games developers, creative director Kevin Hanna has revealed the long-term goal is for the service to become an online games platform. At GDC Austin earlier this month, Hanna said that initially the company will release an application programming interface (API), allowing users to create simple...
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Kevin Hanna -- creative director on Google's Lively -- discusses the nascent virtual world's transition to a proper online gaming platform. The interview centers around a point I've wrestled with myself: what, pray tell, is...
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Right now, Google Lively is a Second Life clone. And an unremarkable one at that. But that's now. In the future, they want it to be much, much more. Google's Kevin Hanna has told GI.biz that it's...
GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Creative director hopes Lively can replace corporate mentality currently 'sucking the life out of making games'
Second Life Herald (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
by Idoru Wellman, Inter-world Royal Cultural Affairs desk Reading between the lines of the latest press release from The Royal Press Office at Gukumatz Palace, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Yaximixche may still be suffering from hardware issues that...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Has Google figured out that Lively, its decidedly unsexy virtual world, is no fun? The company is letting videogame developers use Lively as the basis for their games. Forget about rebuilding popular... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Voices - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
The Austin Game Developers Conference featured one of the first official public dissections of the Lively by Google virtual world (or virtual room), and I got a chance to sit down with the project's creative director, Kevin Hanna, in advance of that talk.
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Google's virtual world Lively has been seen mostly as a less adult version of Second Life. The company opened the virtual world earlier this summer and it's just kind of sat there, seemingly destined to become one of Google's forgotten products . But today at the Austin Game Developer Conference, the company told VentureBeat that it would be opening up Lively to third-party game developers. That sounds...
Next Generation (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
The Worlds in Motion Summit @ AGDC kicked off with a Q&A session with Kevin Hanna, creative director for Google's Lively, who revealed more opportunities for game makers to participate in the virtual world. During the keynote, Hanna announced that coming soon, casual games would be able to be plugged into these 3D rooms like arcades. Eventually, Google will open up an API to allow for user-generated...
GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Austin GDC: Hanna reveals plans for integration of games - from arcade to entire 3D titles - in Google's growing web-embedded virtual world
Raph's Website (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Liveblog, hurried and it was hard to hear and muffled so lots of typos and elisions. Kevin Hanna, Creative Director, Google Lively About a year ago the first rumors hit about Lively. My favorite was one where some bloggers decided to debunk the rumor, presenting arguments as to why Google would never go into this space. At [...]
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Forbes.com's Chris Morris asks the question and tries to connect the dots between Google's on-the-record interest in games as an advertising delivery medium, and things like "Google Lively," which...
CTO Blog (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
I can remember the launch of Google Earth, the sense of wonder and curiosity it engendered for me, and most other people that I spoke to about it. It was great, brilliantly interesting and thought provoking, entertaining and technically fascinating,...
Adotas (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
DM CONFIDENTIAL — The biggest news this week certainly goes to the public launch of Google’s new browser, Google Chrome, which suckered us into a piece as we watch the browser try not to follow in the footsteps of the company’s other new release Google Lively. Both Google Chrome and the surprisingly quick to market upgrade to Internet Explorer, now in its eight version, offer enhanced privacy features,...
