The Chicken Diaries

The MicroPetz Pigs managed to move up through update 1.68 and reach 1.69 today.

In my last News and Views post I blatantly speculated on the possible death in PinkyPigs, the first breedable pig on the grid. Technorati Tags: featured, love pig, PinkyPigs

With the issuance of a new version for the MicroPetz pigs – to 1.64, we now also have the ability to purchase ‘Magic Cookies’ to grow our micro piggies. Technorati Tags: featured, growth, MicroPetz Pigs, update

Is this a preview of what a MicroPetz pig might look like once the new Growth Cookies are released? I found these two rather large pigs wandering the MicroPetz main store just now. We know that the creators are currently working on growth cookies, so maybe… That pink one there, he looks like he’s big [...]

MicroPetz Pigs had another update over the last day, this time via updater boxes again. If you are in possession of a beta starry gift pig, make sure it is away by 96 meters (or take it temporarily into inventory) for updating your regular pigs, then make sure your regular pigs are out of range [...]

MicroPetz released an update to version 1.4. This version will be faster, with less lag, is prepared for the growth cookie option

More big news in the Breedables world with the release of the MicroPetz Piggy. Beta is over and the MicroPetz Sim has been transformed into a store as well as display for the new Pigs.

MicroPetz Pigs released to the public overnight / today. Beta testers with beta pigs out in-world were gifted with a special pig. Version 1.0 pigs, however, suffered some problems with food, and an updater to Version 1.1 was sent out quite promptly. At the point of writing this, there are still some remaining problems with [...]

There’s a new Pig on the Block. MicroPetz has started Open Beta on the cutest little pig, soon to be seen at a pigsty near you.

Whilst Second Life is broken, I have some spare time to catch up with a few blogs. This little man was born to our PinkyPig family (a group of pigs can be called a ‘team’, a ‘drift’, a ‘herd’ or amusingly, a ‘pog’) a couple of nights ago. His arrival was quite a surprise to [...]