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Kevin Hanna Breaks The Silence on Google Lively

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2008-09-16 16:45:58 by Daniel in Gaming Today
...Lively. Google officially launched the beta for Google Lively this past July, but they havent publicly spoken about it until today With Second Life having over 15 million registered users, and Playstations Home so close to launch we can taste it, why did Google decide to launch a carbon-copy of their product? Simple. Because theyre Google and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google Takes on Second Life and the Sims With Lively

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2008-07-13 18:00:00 by Editor in GamersGame.com Gaming Blog
...Lively is the name of Google's embeddable new virtual world. The downloadable service offers avatars that chat, emote and dance and users can create rooms replete with furniture and other objects. The Lively avatars can also interact with these objects and with the avatars of other Lively users. What's missing is the expansive interactive...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google Lively Development

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2008-09-29 18:18:36 by Codrut Nistor in PlayerzBlog.com
...Lively was released, no matter this was(and it still is) an early Beta, I was really excited to see something like it coming from Google. It had some funny and interesting things to see, as you can see in my review(just check the link above), but - most of all - a lot of potential. After all, everything coming from Google has the potential of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google Wants Lively To Be a True Gaming Platform

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2008-09-29 11:31:00 by Nate Ralph in Wired: Game|Life
...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 the point of this Lively thing anyhow? With so many virtual worlds and social networking apparatuses already clogging up the intertubes, why does Google's foray into...
 
 
 
 
 
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End of life for Google's Lively

2008-11-20 09:00:00 by Tateru Nino in Massively
 
...Lively One of the good things about Google is that they try stuff. They can afford to try out projects, and don't stick with what isn't working. Well, it appears that their Lively virtual environment chat-rooms haven't worked out. Google will be shuttering the Lively service on 31 December 2008, less than six months after launching. Lively's...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google gets more Lively in social games

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2008-07-10 21:44:20 by Jeremy Hill in That VideoGame Blog
...Lively, their own brand of a 3D social networking program. Similar to Second Life, Lively is a downloadable plugin for both the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. The entire program plays in a separate window allowing you to continue your internet surfing while youre logged into Lively Lively gives you total control over the type of room...
 
 
 
 
 
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Massively: Look Lively!

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2008-07-09 15:03:09 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...Lively . By now, you've probably seen all sorts of news reports calling it a rival and competitor to Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life . Technically, that's what we call bollocks Describing Lively as a rival to Second Life is like calling a conference center a rival to a library. They're just not servicing the same needs, and the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Look Lively!

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2008-07-09 14:30:00 by Tateru Nino in Massively
...Lively . By now, you've probably seen all sorts of news reports calling it a rival and competitor to Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life . Technically, that's what we call bollocks Describing Lively as a rival to Second Life is like calling a conference center a rival to a library. They're just not servicing the same needs, and the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Raph's Website: Googles Lively

2008-07-15 22:16:00 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...Lively The coverage showed up in both the gaming press , where Google shared a bunch of tidbits that seemed to indicate a PR outreach to the gaming community, and also of course in the tech press , where commenters seemed overall less than impressed, questioning how Lively relates to Googles avowed purpose of organizing the worlds...
 
 
 
 
 
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Google Lively's Mel Guymon To Keynote Worlds In Motion Summit

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2008-08-15 08:00:22 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Lively keynote is a neat capper to the program, which complements the existing Online Track at Austin and has also just had some new lectures added from folks like Klei's Jamie Cheng and Rebel Monkey's Margaret Wallace Think Services, organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) have announced that Mel Guymon, product manager for Google...