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Mythic’s Four-Month Plan to Drip Feed You New Ways to Play
As Mythic readies the first major content update to their massively online game Warhammer Online, we spoke with Executive Producer Jeff Hickman about the upcoming free new content, new classes, and new dungeons in Call to Arms. Unlike a traditional MMO expansion, A Call to Arms is being delivered over the course of several months,…
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Blood Bowl: Skaven Versus Lizardmen
The Blood Bowl battle continues, as Cyanide brings us yet another video for the fantasy football board game adaptation, this time featuring the reptillian Lizardmen and the ratty Skaven. Rats and lizards, living together, playing football. The giant, tough-as-nails Lizardmen might have the strength advantage, but no one can out-manuever the wily Skaven. Each new…
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Nolan Bushnell To Be Awarded BAFTA Fellowship
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will bestow their highest honor at this years GAME British Academy Video Games Awards to the gather of Atari and pioneer of Pong, Nolan Bushnell. Nolan Bushnell will be inducted into the BAFTA Fellowship at the 2009 award ceremony on March 10th in London, England. The Fellowship…
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Sega Rolls Out More Stormrise Units
Sega has revealed six more units that will be taking the field of battle in Creative Assembly’s post-apocalyptic real-time strategy console title, Stormrise. While Monday’s Stormrise unit reveal focused mainly on the ground troups, today’s update gives us a look at how the war will be faught in the air, along with some of the…
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Blizzard: We Probably Over-Nerfed Hunters
For once, hunters actually have a reason to whine! In a blue post in the official World of Warcraft forums, Blizzard poster GhostCrawler admitted that they “probably” over-nerfed the Beast Mastery specialization. It takes a big company to admit they might have been wrong, and Blizzard isn’t exactly famous for doing so, but here we…
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Gold Farming Website Sells For $10 Million
The number three MMORPG gold-seller on the internet, MyMMOShop.com, has just made the ultimate transaction, with the website purchased by a private equity company for $10 million. The website MyMMOShop.com, which specializes in the farming and selling of in-game money from massively-multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI, and Everquest II, has…
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SOE Brings PopCap Titles To The PlayStation Network
The PlayStation 3 just got a bit more casual, as Sony Online Entertainment announces a deal to bring five PopCap titles to the PlayStation Network, beginning with Bejeweled 2, available now. Perhaps this is what Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley meant when he said that half of the company’s business would eventually be on the…
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Warhammer Online Issuing A Call To Arms With First Live Expansion
Mythic is getting ready to change the face of Warhammer Online with the first live expansion, A Call To Arms, featuring a new land to conquer and two new, brutal character classes. A Call To Arms isn’t your normal expansion pack, but a “Live Expansion”, which will be deployed over a series of months on…
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Cheating Second Life Husband: The Movie
The Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary on cheating spouses in Second Life has aired, featuring a look at the women in the life of Dutch, the Second Life cheating husband we’ve come to love. This clip from the full documentary, which can be viewed at the link below, shows the woman Dutch is now married to,…
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