All Entries in the "MMORPG" Category

Blizzard Customer Support is Not a Teen Suicide Hotline?!?

Teenage suicide? Don’t do it. And don’t threaten that you’re going to kill yourself to Blizzard Entertainment customer support representatives via online chat, because that will land your ass in jail. (Pro tip!)
Unfortunately, one 17-year old doofus from Middletown, Ohio hadn’t learned that lesson in time, making a phony threat while chatting in-game with a [...]

World Of Warcraft Reaches 11.5 Million

So the wife and I Joined up with Gamerchick39(Our cousin and Author on Plasma Burn) and are back to our WoW Addict ways. So we are considered 2 of the 11.5 Million subscribers.
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that World of Warcraft has reached 11.5 million subscribers, meaning Azeroth has surpassed the great state of Ohio’s population. [...]

Mythic delaying work on Warhammer expansion to improve live game

As the recently released expansion for World of Warcraft clearly displayed with its mind-boggling sales figures, add-ons for MMOs (particularly ones with a large player base) can be lucrative undertakings. Despite this fact, Mythic developer Mark Jacobs recently issued a surprising statement on a Warhammer Online forum thread in which commenters were discussing features they’d [...]

Blizzard legal targets WoW Private Servers

Privately run WoW servers have been dropping like flies in the last day or so after receiving letters from Blizzard’s lawyers under the DMCA. They’ve been shut down so quickly and rapidly that it’s being heralded as “the end of private servers” by quite a few people. The biggest and most well known servers such [...]

Beam me up some new Screenshots

Admit it, watching that guy play the Star Trek theme on the Wiimote  gave you a powerful appetite for Roddenberry’s magnum opus — we highly suggest satisfying your interstellar jones with three new screenshots for Cryptic’s Star Trek Online, available in the gallery below. These are easily the best-looking images to come out of the game thus far — just look at [...]

Teacher uses “Sex Text” and World Of Warcraft to Seduce Student

 
A British schoolteacher was threatened with jail today after she admitted she had used “the interactive game Warcraft” to forge a relationship with a 14-year-old boy to whom she later sent sexually explicit text messages.
According to the Mirror.co.uk, Lynn Walls, a 42-year-old primary school teacher in Gateshead,  sent the boy “a series of graphic texts in [...]

Tabula Rasa: Calling it Quits after a year.

Well Im one of those who bought the game.  Loved it. But it just wasn’t the same. There was never enough people on to play. So 2 months later I quit.  Well as it seems im not the only one calling it quits.   Tabula Rasa is throwing in the towel and shutting it down.
To [...]

WotLK all Raid Content Defeated Already.

All the Wrath of the Lich King raiding content has been cleared by a European guild less than three days after the expansion released.

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Richard Garriot Steps Down

Taken from an Open Announcement Letter Richard Garriot, the king of Online Games, Creator of The Ultima Series(and consequentially Ultima Online) as well as the Recently troubled Tabula Rasa, has announced that he would be stepping down from his position at NCSoft.. Apparently motivated by his recent trip into space:

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Did Azeroth Go Red or Blue in the Election?

Comedian Rich Kuras recently took a tour of World of Warcraft to find out how the race might shake out with the highly elusive ‘lootz’ vote. Extraordinarily scientific breakdowns by race, class and faction provided (McCain polls much better among Alliance voters).  Good Stuff

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Diablo 3: The Wizard class (Video trailer)

Diablo 3 ‘Wizard’ trailer
Wizard class trailer, Diablo 3 courtesy of 1up.com. Damn I’m excited about this game and I’ve been a fan of the rpg Wizard class since I played Ultima Exodus on the NES.  Back then, you had a spell named Death and it was the spell nuke to end all conversations.  Hell, [...]

Talk about your WoW Whores

This guy is ate up with World of Warcraft. I’ve seen some and know some hardcore WoW geeks but this guy takes the cake in a large way.  I used to do a little double boxing back in the day just to get my toon leveled up faster.

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Warhammer Release, Why it took so long, First Impressions

MTV recently posted an interview with Mark Jacobs, the current GM/VP/CEO of Mythic Entertainment, Inc. In this interview Jacobs admitted that the late release of Warhammer Online was due to the release of World of Warcraft expansion Burning Crusades. Jacobs said:
“We obviously had a major bump when ‘Burning Crusade’ came out,” he said. “When [Blizzard] released that expansion, [...]

Warhammer Online: Open Beta Today!

Been waiting to get in the Warhammer Online beta?  Wait no longer! The open beta starts today. Click here and off you go.  Here is the Press Release:
WAAAGH!!!
The Reckoning is at hand as hundreds of thousands can now embark on their epic adventures in Open Beta! This is a monumental step for the [...]

Age of Conan: Onward to 360 and beyond

Funcom has told Eurogamer that an Xbox 360 version of Age of Conan will definitely be released.
“The Xbox 360 version is still very much set to happen and we are working on it,” said company man Erling Ellingsen.
“However, there are no dates set, even though we aim for a 2009 release. Our big priority now [...]