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Player steals billions in EVE Online, trades it for real money and buys house

Posted Jul 03, 2009 at 03:01PM by Karl B.

Listed in: News, Eve Online

Tags: CCP Games, Reuters


EVE Online has a reputation for having in-game crimes happen left and right. Most of it's even condoned since crime is an inherent part of the game's virtual economy. It's a different ball game when players actually take the virtual cash they steal and sell them for real world money, however.

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GodsWar Online Developer Diary 2: Making Medusa

Posted Jul 01, 2009 at 05:57PM by Glenn M.

Listed in: News, Screenshots, GodsWar Online

Tags: Medusa, IGG


Time to take a break from all the serious news for a while, so let's just chill with GodsWar Online game designer Ethan Pan as he takes us through the creation of one of the game's star villains, the mythical Medusa.

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China's gold farming is 'not about gold farming' after all

Posted Jul 01, 2009 at 05:50PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: News

Tags: China, PayPal


Gold farmers in China may not be out of business after all as it turns out. In the wake of the news that the government of China has now officially banned the gathering of in-game virtual money comes the clarification that there is no such desire on the part of the government to curb this activity.

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Great things come in threes: Blizzard files "Cataclysm" trademark

Posted Jul 01, 2009 at 05:05PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: News

Tags: Blizzard


Superannuation is reporting that Blizzard filed three trademark registrations for the title "Cataclysm". What is it? Nobody knows for sure yet, but the trademark did indicate that it covers "computer games, paper-based products (comic books, trading cards, coloring books), and online games." Sounds like they're getting ready to build a merchandising empire with this one.

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Video: Tech demo for David Perry's Gaikai game streaming service

Posted Jul 01, 2009 at 10:34AM by Karl B.

Listed in: News, Videos

Tags: beta test, David Perry


We may not have seen it at E3, but it looks like David Perry is finally ready to show off his game streaming service, Gaikai, to the public. In a new video posted on his own website, Perry demonstrates how GaiKai handles, running games like Spore, World of Warcraft, and an emulated Mario Kart 64 on a standard computer with a home cable connection. Check out the video after the jump. It's pretty impressive.

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Gold Farming now officially banned in China

Posted Jun 30, 2009 at 06:00PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: World of Warcraft, News

Tags: China


Keen on curbing the growing industry of Gold Farming in online games like the famous World of Warcraft, China has now set up a leaner definition of the terms "gold farming" as well as officially banning its practice, and limiting the use of virtual currency only for virtual goods and services.

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Australia to block online access to games with content beyond MA-15

Posted Jun 25, 2009 at 11:54PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: News

Tags:


Pretty soon Australian gamers won't be able to access anymore those websites that host and sell games which the government deems to contain content "edgier" than what is allowed under an MA-15+ rating. Doesn't matter if you're above 18 not, if it's blocked, you're not getting to it.

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Dawn of War II is getting Map Editor, aka the World Builder

Posted Jun 25, 2009 at 02:20AM by Mabie A.

Listed in: News

Tags: Map Editor


A Map Editor's coming your way in Dawn of War II's next major update. For real. It's called the "World Builder", and here you'll be able to "create, edit, and play" on your own built wonderland.

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Angels Online new expansion details, screenshots

Posted Jun 25, 2009 at 12:59AM by Mabie A.

Listed in: News, Screenshots, Angels Online

Tags: IGG


The cartoon-styled MMORPG from IGG, Angels Online,  has just recently come out with their new expansion, and we've got a whole lot of screenshots to show you what it's like in their new world.

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BioWare, Mythic join forces for new EA RPG/MMO development group

Posted Jun 24, 2009 at 11:54AM by Karl B.

Listed in: News

Tags: Electronic Arts, Mythic Entertainment, BioWare, Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk


Some changes are also in store for RPG heavyweight BioWare and MMO studio Mythic Entertainment. Electronic Arts has announced that the two studios will be restructured into a single group that will handle RPG and MMO games development.

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'Very ambitious' MMO to be announced by Realtime Worlds next year

Posted Jun 23, 2009 at 11:03PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: News

Tags: David Jones, RealTime Worlds


Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds is currently busy with their second MMO project, and they are "very excited" about their "very ambitious project". Read on in the full article.

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Sony: WoW is wow because of EverQuest

Posted Jun 16, 2009 at 08:08PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: World of Warcraft, EverQuest 2, EverQuest, News

Tags: Blizzard, Sony, BlizzCon


Sony is taking credit for the existence of the hottest MMORPG around, World of Warcraft, saying that had it not been for their Everquest, WoW would not have existed to wow the gaming world as it does today. Lead designer Ryan Barker shares some choice words on the matter.

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GodsWar Online Dev Journal #1: Pet System

Posted Jun 14, 2009 at 09:36PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: News, Screenshots, GodsWar Online

Tags: mythology, IGG, Starbucks


We have here the first in a series of Dev Journal entries from IGG for their Greek Mythology-based MMORPG, GodsWar Online. For this first iteration, Ethan Pan, the game designer of GodsWar Online, is sharing his thoughts on the development of the new pet system for GodsWar. He also brings us cute screenshots to ogle out, so check it out right after the jump.



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Screenshots: GodsWar Online

Posted Jun 10, 2009 at 06:25PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: Screenshots, GodsWar Online

Tags: IGG


IGG gives out new screenshots and assets for their MMO title, GodsWar Online. Based on Greek mythology, this 3D game brings the players to the world of Gods, Humans, Demigods and Monsters -- all in the same continent.

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Neverwinter Nights MMO in the works from Cryptic?

Posted Jun 09, 2009 at 09:44PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: Rumors

Tags: Atari, Star Trek, Cryptic Studios, Infogrames


Last December, Cryptic Studios packed up and moved in with Atari and Infogrames, in effect turning over all of their proprietary IP, tools, technology and even WIPs to their new parent company. Inside sources are now alive and abuzz that part of the turned over WIPs would be an MMO version of Neverwinter Nights.

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WoW Gold Pig giving away 500,000 gold in-game

Posted Jun 09, 2009 at 07:44PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: World of Warcraft, News, Events

Tags: Azeroth, Twitter


This is the gold mine right here. Literally. The WoW Gold Pig blog is running a contest for 500,000 WoW Gold. We’ve gotten wind of it, thanks to tips (and tweets) from the community, and so went further to fish out more info about it through their representative, Nick Gardner. Click on full article for the complete dibs.





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World of Warcraft client patch 3.1.3 released

Posted Jun 03, 2009 at 11:35AM by Ryan F.

Listed in: World of Warcraft, News, Patches

Tags: Blizzard


A new patch for Blizzard's ever popular MMO game World of Warcraft is now available. WoW Client Patch 3.1.3 is mostly a class balancing patch with some more bug fixes. Read more to see the full changes.

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E3 2009: One of three unannounced Square Enix games is 'Rapture', PS3 console exclusive

Posted May 27, 2009 at 11:16PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: News

Tags: Square Enix, Sony


A couple of days ago, Square Enix revealed that they will be showing three unannounced games at their E3 presentation. Today, we gathered word that one of these three games is actually an MMO title  -- exclusively for the PlayStation 3, as far as the consoles are concerned at least.

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Free Realms breaks two-million user mark

Posted May 27, 2009 at 10:03PM by Glenn M.

Listed in: News, Free Realms

Tags: Sony, John Smedley, free-to-play


Earlier today, Sony Online Entertainment announced that the free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms now has more than two million registered users since its April 28 launch. As expected, Free Realms struck gold with young users, with 75% of registrants being under 17, and 46% under 13. More in the full article.

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Analyst: GTA MMO could be 'enormously profitable'

Posted May 27, 2009 at 08:01PM by Mabie A.

Listed in: Opinions & Analysis

Tags: Blizzard, Activision, Take-Two Interactive, Activision Blizzard, Mike Hickey


An MMO GTA? Can you imagine that? Janco Partners is certainly imagining it as it ponders on Take-Two Interactive's prospects at acquisition. Mike Hickey is of the opinion that given the proven success of the franchise, the company is a very enticing candidate for future acquisition.

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