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Game Developers Resolutions for 2009 Gallery and Images
Beat World of Warcraft World of Warcraft is great, and deserving of its status as the 900-pound gorilla of the gaming world. But as fans of video game football can tell you, competition is a good thing, and it's not healthy for the genre for the ...
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 Earthrise - Beta Sign-ups Begin
Earthrise - Beta Sign-ups Begin
If you've been wanting to try out this Sci-Fi MMORPG, better hurry up and sign up!
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Malygos: A Tutorial
Category: The Eye of Eternity Summary: This narrated video explains the strategy for defeating Malygos in the Eye of Eternity.
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Guild Wars - Not Really An Article
Gaile Gray , ArenaNet employee extraordinaire, stole a soapbox to stand on at the Guild Wars Wiki in order to explain why they ban 1000 (!) Guild Wars accounts per week for real money transactions (RMT). Say the RMTer talks to 10 or 20 people in a ...
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Malygos - StratsFu
From StratsFu Overview Other than Sartharion with Drakes alive, Malygos is the hardest fight of the original content released with Wrath. He has a 10-minute enrage timer that is fairly unforgiving in early gear and three separate phases with a ...
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The Guild (video)
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 GWJ Conference Call Episode 116
GWJ Conference Call Episode 116
Right Click Here and 'Save As' to Download! (A Highlighting 26.7 megs, 46:36) With all the holidays going on around here you just knew we were going to slack off eventually. This week we talk about some of our favorite moments of 2008 ...
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Atlantica Online
Since late last October I have been putting most of my MMO time into Atlantica Online . I was attracted to the game in it’s open beta because I wanted to see how it handled turn based combat, and have hung about since the release. While I’m no ...
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 Feature Article: Solo Play for Daring Characters up to 20th Level
Feature Article: Solo Play for Daring Characters up to 20th Level
While MMOs are home to thousands of players, there are times when you want to take on the challenge of the Dark Lord Sauron all by yourself. While not every quest is soloable, you’ll find a huge number of quests suitable for a lone hero from ...
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 Ding! Call for your WoW stories
Ding! Call for your WoW stories
In the new year, I’ve decided to take back over all the creative regins on my comic strip “Ding!” . Once again, I’ll be writing and drawing the strip. But that’s not all that’s changing. World of Warcraft ...
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 Vietnam has surpassed China as the world’s fastest-online-game-growing area.
Vietnam has surpassed China as the world’s fastest-online-game-growing area.
After 20 years reform and opening up, Vietnam, closely following China, has now become the second most favorite investment destination of Taiwan enterprises. Due to Vietnam’s improving economy, MMO gaming population is undergoing an explosive growth.
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 10 Quick Tips for SOTA
10 Quick Tips for SOTA
-- Ahh, SOTA. Or Strand if you want. Just to preface, some Horde want to boycott this for some very strange reason.. because they think Alliance have an advantage being the attacking side. LOL, I've heard this whining before.. boycott.. advantage.. ...
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Wikicrap
Wikipedia is a perfect example of the tragedy of the commons : where multiple individuals acting independently in their own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared resource even where it is clear that it is not in anyone’s long term ...
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 Extended maintenance, some hints of patch 3.0.8
Extended maintenance, some hints of patch 3.0.8
Maintenance will run "extended" tomorrow for all U.S. realms until 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST. The last few weeks we've seen the down time grow as Blizzard's worked out issues, so I wouldn't count on the servers being up at 11:00 a.m. PST. ...
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 Persistent Traffic Bots Generate 1440 Points A Day?
Persistent Traffic Bots Generate 1440 Points A Day?
How many bots are in-world, and how much do they artificially boost a parcel's Traffic numbers? The aggravating mystery continues, but here's another data point: Tabliopa Underwood reports that she's been covertly watching a landowner experimenting ...
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 How Broad And Varied Is The Second Life Bot Experience?
How Broad And Varied Is The Second Life Bot Experience?
Most bots in Second Life exist simply to artificially inflate Traffic numbers and simulate Resident activity. Other bots provide information/instruction, entertainment, or even act as showroom mannequins. That's all functionally comprehensible, as far ...
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 Pre-Raid Gear: Head, Shoulder, Chest, Hands, Legs, Feet
Pre-Raid Gear: Head, Shoulder, Chest, Hands, Legs, Feet
By repeated request, here is a listing of pre-raiding gear to help you prepare for Naxxramas, organized by item slot and roughly ordered by my preference/recommendation. Because this is so lengthy, I’m breaking this article into two parts. Part II ...
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 Phoenix Guild of Greymane
Phoenix Guild of Greymane
Guild Armory Death Knight Closed Druid Closed Hunter Closed Mage Closed Paladin Open Priest Closed Rogue Open Shaman Open Warlock Closed Warrior Closed Naxxramas Arachnid Quarter Anub'Rekhan Dead Grand Widow ...

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Server Merge News and New Server News
On January 21, 2009, EQ will be consolidating "The Combine" server and "Druzzil Ro (Xev)" server into one server to be titled "Druzzil Ro (Xev, Combine)." The merge will begin at 3 a.m. PST and will last approximately ...
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Earthrise beta signups begin
Fans of massively multiplayer online games who think fantasy settings are getting a bit stale are looking at other genres to explore -- namely the upcoming sci-fi MMO titles soon to arrive. One such game that we've been keeping tabs on at Massively ...
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 Playing World of Warcraft For Free
Playing World of Warcraft For Free
I mentioned the other day a private server that I play on, WoWScape. I talked about briefly on how it is somewhat like a Micro-Transaction model.(Though a bit to the extreme in terms of regular gear and gear you can buy, to read the full post go here.) Other then that though I realized today ...
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 Outspark Announces Wind Slayer Closed Beta
Outspark Announces Wind Slayer Closed Beta
Late last year MMO publisher and operator Outspark announced its latest MMORPG, Wind Slayer , and they've now announced the dates for a brief closed beta, open between January 7th and 14th. The testing period is to "provide Outspark with valuable ...
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Internecion - Forums - Recruitment
/ General Forums / Recruitment Want to be a member of the Internecion family? Apply here. Page 1 of 11 1 2 3 4 Last Topics / Started Last post Posts Views [Template] Recruitment Application 11/25 02:50 : Celsye 11/25 02:50 Celsye 41 days 1  ...
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Forums - Internecion DKP System
Excerpt from Guild Annoucement to detail the new DKP System DKP System A few changes to Internecion's DKP system have been made. Below is a compiled list of those changes: * DKP will be instanced-based. (Separate DKP per instance) * Attendance ...
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English (NA) Forums -> Stormreaver
Forum > WOW REALM FORUMS > Stormreaver Forum Nav: Jump To This Forum Account: Password: Help New Topic New Topic Quick Search Advanced Search Forum Index 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 . 15 . 16 . 17 . 18 Sort by: ...
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Internecion - A Stormreaver Guild
Healers -There is more give on healer gear more so than any other class role, however that is becoming a fine line now too. Ideally we would love to have the minimum amount of healers in a raid to maximize Raid DPS. So don't expect to just have hit 80 ...

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Earthrise Beta Application
Earthrise Beta Application
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Beta Application News and Discussion Thread (Updated, 1/5/09)
Now that we're gearing up beta talk with our most recent news on the application , let's get some common questions out of the way. Smiley Where is the application? http://www.play-earthrise.com/beta/betasignup.html An important note: Please fill out a ...
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Everything Blizzard Entertainment!
On April 21, 2009 Pocket Star Books and Blizzard Entertainment will unleash one of the most awaited Warcraft novels based on the Wrath of the Lich King Expansion (World of Warcraft). Christie Golden has been known by fans of this franchise for her ...
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 Massive Entertainment™ - Welcome
Massive Entertainment™ - Welcome
Holiday greetings from Massive Entertainment 2008-12-18 Another great year is coming to an end and the holiday season is soon upon us. 2008 has been a very exciting year for Massive with World in Conflict being released on Steam and the company being ...
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Home | EndWar | Ubisoft
2008 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. EndWar, Ubisoft, Ubi.com, the Ubisoft logo, and the Soldier icon are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, and the Xbox logos are ...
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 Where Bad Games Go To Die (RIP Tabula Rasa) [Rest In Peace]
Where Bad Games Go To Die (RIP Tabula Rasa) [Rest In Peace]
Upon their death, great men are afforded a sending off befitting of their stature. Pity Tabular Rasa, then, as EB Games in Canada seems more content to roll its lifeless corpse into the nearest...
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 Bear Tanking Specs and Gear Pre-Naxx
Bear Tanking Specs and Gear Pre-Naxx
I have worked the numbers again and again, and as far as I can see, it’s six of one, half a dozen of the other. We may have arrived at different weighting systems, but the end results are mostly the same. So if you want a great ranked ...
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 The Evils of Wikipedia and the Hope of Second Life
The Evils of Wikipedia and the Hope of Second Life
Winston I was trying to think today what "killer apps in social media" means, and it's hard to think of any for Second Life. I guess my own feeling is that it is a killer app all on its own, but one still getting developed and spread. Not everything ...
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Losing MUD history
QBlog writes on the controversy going on over the possible deletion of the article on Threshold MUD . I’ve run into the fact that Wikipedia isn’t a great resource for research into the history of virtual worlds many times before; the ...

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 Four cheers for Tipa's Spellborn gallery
Four cheers for Tipa's Spellborn gallery
Filed under: Fantasy , Screenshots , Chronicles of Spellborn You've got to admit it - Chronicles of Spellborn has some seriously amazing graphics. And to prove that's true, Tipa at West Karana has posted a great selection of screenies. They include ...
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Patch 3.0.8 Enchantments, Blue posts
Patch 3.0.8 - Enchantment changes Blue posts mentioned a few times the changes made to enchantments in 3.0.8 but I never took the time to list them. Hopefully the forums are full of wonderful people and TheRabidDeer made a nice list on our forums ...
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 EQ2: You’ve Got Mail!
EQ2: You’ve Got Mail!
I don’t know why I missed this HUGE sculpture in the gnomish bit of the Moors of Ykesha before. So like, NOW you know where the mailbox is… from ORBIT. I wish they did the same thing for the location of the druid ring. People kept ...
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Rant on why ALL MMO’s Suck.
I haven’t logged in to Everquest 2 or any MMO for over a month. Every time i get bored i’ve been asking my self what i want to do. And playing an MMO is not something that has come to mind. Playing GTA4, or watching a tv/movie or play with my WII ...
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 We Shouldn’t
We Shouldn’t
Tell innocent druids that hunters crave Expertise . Carry the joke to an extreme and roll into heroic Gundrak to get the epic expertise-ring , but it drops and it’s better than what we had, so we’re totally using it. Expect a proto ...
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World of Warcraft tops most played list of 2008
Nielsen Research has published its January through October numbers about the top 10 PC games and top 10 consoles by amount of time played. Once again World of Warcraft tops the charts. In fact, WoW has more time played than the other nine titles ...
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Threshold
For reasons best known to itself, Wikipedia has a habit of deleting game-related entries ( BYOND 's went last year; Dragon Kill Points went a couple of years ago and was only reinstated after a long fight). At the moment, there's a proposal to delete ...

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