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The case for getting grandma to play World of Warcraft
CNET by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore February 23, 2012 1:46 PM PST Follow @ejamoore Researchers find that a few hours playing WoW boosts certain cognitive functions in older adults–especially those who had scored poorly prior to playing. |
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CNET A game like World of Warcraft requires several thousand servers to operate the hundreds of online realms within its ecosystem. Earlier this year, Blizzard Entertainment auctioned off several of those server blades "used during World of Warcraft's early … |
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Meet a retired World of Warcraft server
CNET A game like World of Warcraft requires several thousand servers to operate the hundreds of online realms within its ecosystem. Earlier this year, Blizzard Entertainment auctioned off several of those server blades "used during World of Warcraft's early … |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic takes on World of Warcraft with force
CNET The developers' hope is that the game will bring meaningful competition to the World of Warcraft-dominated online gaming market. Gamers and the Star Wars faithful, on the other hand, just hope the game is fun. We've been playing the game in an early … Star Wars – The Old Republic seeks to overthrow World of Warcraft Star Wars epic uses The Force – and 0M – to take on game giant World of … Lightsaber Rattling in the Online Galaxy |
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Adele, Tiny Wings top iTunes Rewind best of 2011 app list
CNET UK Episode 1 of Come Fly With Me was the top downloaded TV show, followed by that brilliant South Park episode about World of Warcraft. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht won best fiction book, and Comedy of the Week from BBC Radio 4 took home the best new … |
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Outsmarted: Captcha security not much of a gotcha
CNET Decaptcha was able to decode 66 percent of the Captchas used by Visa's Authorize.net payment site, 70 percent of Blizzard Entertainment's Captchas — the company's games include World of Warcraft and Diablo — and 25 percent of Wikipedia's. … |
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World of Warcraft now free for 20 levels
CNET Rejoice, World of Warcraft n00bs. The massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is now free to play for up to 20 levels. That means players can now take as long as they need to get familiar with the game before they have to … 'World of Warcraft' goes free-to-play 'World of Warcraft' … your first hit is now free World of Warcraft now free to play for 20 levels |
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Roblox: A virtual world of Lego-like blocks
CNET One place many of them are going, boys especially: Roblox, an online world where you can build stuff and share it with other people. Parents might like its strong Lego vibe over, say, World of WarCraft. To me it looks like Second Life with MineCraft … |
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Navy prepping launch of MMO to fight at-sea piracy
CNET However, it's not your typical MMO, like World of Warcraft. According to the Navy, more than 1000 players will be charged with solving "real-world problems facing the Navy." "MMOWGLI is an online game designed to find and collectively grow breakthrough … Wannabe SEALs Help US Navy Hunt Pirates In Massively Multiplayer Game US Navy recruits WoW to fight off pirates Navy Crowdsources Pirate Fight To Online Gamers |
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Instant voicemails and online role playing: iPhone apps of the week
CNET (blog) The resemblance to World of Warcraft is obvious, but that doesn't make this game any less fun to play. Order and Chaos Online (.99) is Gameloft's answer to World of Warcraft on the iPhone, borrowing liberally from what has been called the most … |