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Vote For Mod DB’s Mod Of The Year Awards
Mod DB has announced the start of voting for the 7th Annual Mod of the Year Awards, celebrating the best in fan-crafted game modifications, and your vote counts. Voting kicks off today at ModDB.com, where users browsing the collection of mods on the website are urged to click the VOTE button located in each mod’s…
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A Heroic New Year From Champions Online
Get a glimpse of the various locales in Cryptic’s upcoming superhero MMO Champions Online, as the assembled denizens of the game gather to ring in the new year. While there really isn’t all that much to see in the wide shots presented in what amounts to an animated holiday greeting card, it does bolster my…
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Lara Croft Wants Your Pictures, Not Just Your Proposals
The latest Lara Croft model Alison Carroll explains that while the seven marriage proposals she’s received so far are lovely, what she really wants is your picture. In a recently published interview with UK gossip rag The Sun, Allison discusses the ups and downs of traveling the world, the reactions of her friends and family…
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AsiaSoft Cracking Down On Home-Run MapleStory Servers
MapleStory’s Singapore distributor looks to cut down on a rash of home-run pirate servers, as a plucky teen take the world of big-headed platform battles into his own bedroom. A story from The Straits Times focuses on 16-year-old Sean Lee, who runs a pirate server out of his bedroom, allowing players to access the pay…
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Innovative MMO Twin Skies Not Quite As Innovative Anymore
Neopets creators Adam Powell and Donna Williams have decided to strip the 3D portion of their MMO Twin Skies in order to focus on creating just another free-to-play online flash game. Originally envisioned as a 3D MMO that users would be able to interact with directly via flash game content, an announcement yesterday on the…
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Second Life Cheating Husband Surprised by Movie Deal
The man at the heart of the Second Life story, which Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski seeks to turn into a movie, was caught off guard by news of the film adaptation. After Crecente posted the news of Verbinski’s purchase of the rights to the 2007 Wall Street Journal article about a man…
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Lord Of The Rings: Conquest Demo Hits 360
Xbox 360 owners now get to taste the delicious flavor of large scale battles over the fate of Middle Earth as the demo for EA and Pandemic’s Lord of the Rings Conquest hits Live. Out for the PlayStation 3 for a good week and a half now, the Lord of the Rings: Conquest demo is…
By Mike Fahey
