We really can't stand "games" such as Second Life (come on they're for people that don't have a first life), so you can imagine that we are not entirely grieving over the passing of Google's effort in this space with Lively, for it has had the axe taken to it.

The game was only officially launched in July but in a statment, a Googloid said that "We want to ensure that we prioritise our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business." Meaning it wasn't doing well enough to keep the thing going. Google's blog also confirmed as much.

Oh well, back to your first lives of dead-end jobs and fattening foods and size 32 track pants.