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Yesterday on Massively: December 13, 2007
2009-09-23
Yesterday saw the news comes down that Auran (makers of Fury) were closing down their doors and had let everyone go. Being laid off is never fun, but during the holidays is a serious case of suck. We here at Massively are shaking the mojo stick for you all that you land sweet jobs bringing new games to us somewhere soon, Auran folks! Hey Activizzard Blizzivision, a bunch of really good coders just came open -- time to snap 'em up for your next-gen MMO.

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Second Life viewer 1.22 goes final
2009-09-10

The 1.22 series of Second Life viewer release candidates has at last come to an end and has "gone gold" as they say. The 1.22 viewer today replaces the 1.21 viewer as the official Second Life viewer after a series of release candidates stretching back to last November.

There are an enormous number of fixes in this viewer release, though there's some known problems with advanced water presets and isolated reports of voice issues on all platforms. There's also a ton of localization work gone into this release, adding Polish, Hungarian and Danish support, and reworking some of the existing translations. Check after the fold for the full release notes.

New Features: Added: VWR-2662: OpenAL support on Linux Added: VWR-3434: New feature for text chat: "Whisper" as well as Say and Shout. Added: VWR-5659: Implement audio streaming via Gstreamer on Linux Updated: Update the Vivox SDK version 2.1.3010.6151 to support additional voice features and resolve known volume problems Updated: Revamped translation of the user interface in French Updated: Revamped translation of the user interface in Japanese Updated: More complete translations of the user interface in Chinese(Simplified) Updated: ...