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Diehard gamers settle in for a night in fantasy land
Montreal Gazette These are the diehard gamers; folks who fuel up on Skittles and Red Bull then immerse themselves in World of Warcraft, StarCraft or other popular online role-playing games until the wee hours of the morning. Internet cafés like LeNet 24, located on de … |
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Trial delves into fantasy game
Adelaide Now THE District Court will visit the fictional land of Azeroth in a trial sparked by the popular World of Warcraft video game. In what is believed to be a legal first, events that occurred in the real-time internet game will be recounted as part of a … |
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15 Minutes of Fame: Sci-fi and fantasy copyeditor Deanna Hoak
Joystiq From Hollywood celebrities to the guy next door, millions of people have made World of Warcraft a part of their lives. How do you play WoW? We're giving each approach its own 15 Minutes of Fame. … |
From Hollywood celebrities to the guy next door, millions of people have made World of Warcraft a part of their lives. How do you play WoW? We’re giving each approach its own 15 Minutes of Fame.
Deanna Hoak and I have bonded over the Viscous Hammer. Yes, I realize that some of you will find it somewhat predictably amusing that WoW Insider’s resident copyeditor should be geeking out over interviewing sci-fi/fantasy copyeditor and WoW player Deanna Hoak — but there’s more to this editor than a mere passion for punctuation. Hoak brings a virtually unique set of experience and sensitivities to the fantastical demands of the novels she edits. In the world of science fiction and fantasy, Hoak edits the big dogs: China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Valente, Alan Dean Foster, Cherie Priest, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, R.A. Salvatore … In fact, Hoak’s the only copyeditor ever nominated for a World Fantasy Award for her work.
So yeah, someone who appreciates all the wrongness of WoW’s awkwardly named Viscous Hammer (and who knows how to spice up an email exchange with some pretty hot photos of China Miéville at a recent con — but that’s another story) … To top it all off, along with her two children (her husband’s the lone holdout of the family), Hoak’s an avid WoW player. Join us after the break for a conversation on World of Warcraft from a SF/F insider’s point of view, her recommended reading list for fellow WoW players, and more.
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From Hollywood celebrities to the guy next door, millions of people have made
World of Warcraft a part of their lives. How do you play WoW? We’re giving each approach its own 15 Minutes of Fame.Just as Azeroth prepares to explode in all its cataclysmic glory, films on gaming seem to be exploding onto the scene. There’s the documentary from LFG Productions (many of you may have seen them filming at BlizzCon and our reader meetup last month) that will be following leading raiding guild <Blood Legion> in a full-court press into Cataclysm. There’s The Raid, another take on raiding life that we also saw at BlizzCon, and the “zanier” take on gaming culture of Gamers.
In contrast to all those documentaries comes the short narrative film /afk. This live-action film, featuring extensive in-game footage produced by a whole host of well known machinimators — Gigi, Teagen the Rogue, Baron Soosdon, the list goes on — tells the tale of a WoW gamer whose psychiatrist informs him that he is gaming-addicted and should delete his character. Game over? Not quite. “The problem is that he always had this dream to solo Onyxia,” explains creator Benjamin Dressler, “and he doesn’t intend to leave without reaching that goal.”
/afk debuts on YouTube later this week with a unique, in-game event that literally “unlocks” the premiere. On Nov. 19, Aventhor, the night elf character from the movie, will appear on Alleria (EU-A) at 7 p.m. GMT and Drenden (US-A) at 5 p.m. CST. Find him and unlock “/afk”! Players must find Aventhor on each server and perform his quests to unlock the movie on YouTube. For more details on the premiere event, see the video at the end of the article — and join us after the break for a peek behind the scenes with creator Benjamin Dressler.
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15 Minutes of Fame: Film follows fantasy of fighting Onyxia originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Fantasy fans invade California
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Of Course an Accountant Is the World's Top Fantasy Football Player
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Final Fantasy XIV Beta Begins, Belatedly
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Final Fantasy XIV Online
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Pay to Play Final Fantasy XIV, Play It, Then Be Forced to Take Breaks
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