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Wrath of Lich King on DVD Only, Two People Angry

Still running a PC without a $10 DVD-ROM drive? Still like World of Warcraft? Sorry, you’re screwed. The next expansion will *gasp* require a DVD. Sorry those of you still stuck in a multimedia world circa 1993. It’s either time to move on to something else or pony up the cash to buy the necessary [...]

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Online Game Players Not Fat, Just Addicts

Look at it this way: If you play MMOs, you’re likely not fat. Congratulations. A new study (yes, someone paid money to find this stuff out) that the stereotype no longer fits. However, the study conducted by the Palo Alto Research Center, does have some other grim news for you. After quizzing 7,000 players, they [...]

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Bejewled and Warcraft: A Match Made in, well, Warcraft

Kudos to PopCap. Michael Fromwiller created an in-game Bejeweled clone in World of Warcraft to pass the time while waiting around for raids or when gold farming. Instead of PopCap dropping a lawsuit in the guys lap, the company instead hired him to do an official version of the puzzle classic. The game, now cleaned [...]

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WWE Going MMO in Korea?

Korean WWE fans have until 2010 to froth at the mouth for their exclusive title, but THQ has announced they’ll be delivering a PC WWE MMO experience. The game will apparently feature a standard style career mode in which the player climbs the ranks of the WWE with the goal of reaching the WWE Hall [...]

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Warhammer Online Taking Out the (Gold Farming) Trash

Ha Ha! This one goes out to all of the gold farmers out there in Warhammer land. Ha ha! Mythic co-founder Mark Jacobs has had enough of gold farming shenanigans. He’s laying down the law, as his “strike team” who do nothing but find the gold farmers of the world and ban them. So far, 400 people [...]

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MMO Players Challenge Final Fantasy XI Boss for 18 Hours… and Lose.

Through the years, we’ve all heard stories of gaming dedication. Heck, you probably even have your own (I certainly have my stories of marathon sessions). Mostly though, those stories finish with a happy ending. Not so much for a group of Final Fantasy XI players who recently had the idea to tackle what Square has [...]

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Fake Gold Worth a Crap Load

Apparently, people these days are too lazy to even play the video games they buy, and are willing to pay someone else to do it for them. A Manchester University study has shown the industry is potentially worth $500 million. The business employs close to half a million people, most of them in China. However, [...]

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Road to the Lich King: WOW’s new buff / debuff system

Blizzard has recently implemented a change in the Wrath of the Lich King beta that aims to vastly unify the staggering amount of different buffs involved in raiding and other group situations. The new system categorizes buffs into around thirty categories, and makes it so that only the most powerful of each category will apply. [...]

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Road to the Lich King: Free content for all before release

In the upcoming weeks (the exact date is yet to be determined), Blizzard will be releasing a substantial content patch that will include a large portion of the Wrath of the Lich King content. This will be free to all players and will be automatically downloaded just like any other patch. According to Blizzard’s Wryxian, this [...]

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Warhammer Online Beta Begins Sept. 7th

Like Warhammer? Like MMOs? Then you like EA whether you know it or not. All you need to do is pre-order Warhammer Online at a specific retailer (though none were actually announced) and you have a full 11 days to squander for gold to sell on eBay… err, play the game before those that failed [...]

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MMO Fury No Longer Has any Fury Left

Still trying to play Auron’s financial bust Fury? Better start a marathon session as the game is going offline forever. Auron actually shut their doors last year, so it’s actually a small miracle the game has been up at all. The $13 million dollar investment into this PvP player title collapsed right on top [...]

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Wii Fit Meets WoW

Think Wii Fit is in short supply now? Wait until the general public figures out how to use to to play World of Warcraft. This video, an actual project at a German research center, performs some basic movements in the game rather easily after a quick hack of the software and a PC link up. [...]

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