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Active Worlds Community Liaison Tom (Flagg) announced today that 'refugees' from the There virtual reality environment would be offered six free months of Active Worlds citizenship upon proof of There membership.

Chrispeg offered information on a huge change in the development of Activeworlds, with the focus on implementing a brand new rendering engine to take over from the now defunct Renderware.

A round up of the topics discussed at Tech Talk #13 hosted by Chrispeg and moderated by Karten and DMC2U.

Chrispeg has announced at Tech Talk #13 that occasional Activeworlds, Inc contractor and developer of the Linux world server, Andras, would be officially joining the Activeworlds, Inc development team on an official basis in the near future.

Poseidon would like to know if any users are interested in spending some of their time helping improve AWRPG.

A summary of the drama in the Activeworlds Universe and Forums for Jan 3rd. Warning. This article may contain traces of sarcasm.

AWSchol invites you to view its new Mover Tutorial by Dreme Lojyk.

Eclipse Evolution has been upgraded to the latest 5.0 SDK.

Awportals now makes it even easier to register your events on the official Awportals.com Events Calendar.

Kiwi continues her interview series by talking to Nursemom and Woody.

Activeworlds, Inc has announced its yearly Christmas Specials.

A summary of the drama in the Activeworlds Universe and Forums for Dec 6th, 2009.

A summary of the drama in the Activeworlds Universe and Forums for Nov 29nd. Warning. This article may contain traces of sarcasm.

Alphaworld and the rest of the AWI public building worlds had building disabled in preparation for the release of Activeworlds 5.0, which will hopefully meet its release date of December 1st. If you are a regular Alphaworld'ian, there's still a lot to do like playing SW City Interactive, editing and taking pictures for the SWiki or admiring the new forum updates!

ACT03 is currently seeking a skilled, professional minded and dedicated programmer for an up & coming game project.

A summary of the drama in the Activeworlds Universe and Forums for Nov 22nd.

The CY Awards 2009 took place this weekend, announcing the winners for each standard award plus 6 additions to the Spirit and Lifetime Achievement categories.

Information on the release of Activeworlds 5.0 to the Activeworlds Universe for December 1st, 2009.

In case you hadn't already heard, big congrats to SW Chris for winning Lifetime Achievement in the Cys this year! Syn and I also got one for ActiveWiki.  Pretty k00l.  You can check the full list of winners and event details over at the ActiveWiki.

Byte spent the night working on a bot that mips unmipped images: MipBot v.0.3! If you have any mass-mipping to do, be sure to use his handy new bot. The bot details and download link can be found in the release thread.