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3pointD is off for a bit of a Busman’s Holiday over the next two weeks, so expect posting to slow down a bit between now and 21 November. Where am I going? Only to Iceland for the annual fanfest of the coolest massively multiplayer online game out there, EVE Online. Picture it: 600 or so of the deepest MMO geeks in the world, gathered in one cold, dark place to chat to developers, journalists (that’s me) and each other about whether ECM needs to be nerfed, and just what CCP are thinking about with the baffling new gang system. Personally, I can’t wait. Then it’s off to the UK to do some interviews and try to relax. I’ll be posting here occasionally, but it won’t be as often as I normally do, certainly. Hopefully Glitchy and Chip will help fill the empty spaces in the metaverse while I’m gone.

Scion launch party (from the launch party Flickr set)

Monday night’s launch party for the Toyota Scion presence in the virtual world of Second Life was apparently quite a well attended event. The cool thing about the build, done by Reuben Steiger’s Millions of Us, is that the cars available in the »Scion City« sim (for L$300, or about US$1) are fully customizable, right down to the Photoshop files used to make the surface textures (which are available here). If that’s too daunting (as it would be for me), you can also customize your Scion via a heads-up display, or knock out prims and piece them back together in crazy styles. I haven’t seen any of the customizations that have been created yet, but I’m confident SL users will come up with some very cool rides. In fact, send us screenshots of your pimped-out Scions (to walkeringATgmail.com) with a sentence or two on what you did by way of customization and I’ll publish them here once I’ve collected a few. In the meantime, hit the road.