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Son Calls Cops on Mom Over World of Warcraft
Patch.com 12/18: A 16-year-old male called the police on his mother after she apparently tried to make him stop playing the online role-playing video game World of Warcraft. Police received the call just after 9 pm No arrests were made. 12/15: Four mailboxes on … |
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9 Jailed over Hacking of Online Games in E China
CRIENGLISH.com Yan, a programmer at a Beijing-based information technology company, acted on Zhao's request to crack programs and obtain users' passwords for online games including World of Warcraft and Maple Story from 2009 to 2010, the statement said. … |
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Football Manager Handheld 2012: 'Mobile could take over, but we're still …
Computerandvideogames.com Football Manager is currently one of the PC's most popular franchises, appearing on UK sales charts alongside The Sims and World of Warcraft on a weekly basis, and with the ubiquity of Apple's iOS devices it is poised to achieve similar success in the … |
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Market Data Shows Americans Prefer Free-To-Play MMOS Over Pay-To-Play MMOs
Cinema Blend While the MMO crowd has mostly been bombarded with medieval fantasy MMOs all trying to cash in on Blizzard's World of Warcraft success, the reality is that many American gamers actually prefer free-to-play science-fiction MMOs over any other … Report: Sci-fi MMOs dominated by free-to-play players |
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Breakfast Topic: What will you do over the holiday season?
Joystiq I'm sure we've all heard or seen by now that summer and holiday breaks can be hard on the WoW playerbase. With school semesters wrapping up, many of us are returning back to our homes, jobs, and less World of Warcraft. I know some people will stick … |
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I’m sure we’ve all heard or seen by now that summer and holiday breaks can be hard on the WoW playerbase. With school semesters wrapping up, many of us are returning back to our homes, jobs, and less World of Warcraft. I know some people will stick around and raid or hit up Rated Battlegrounds till their eyes bleed, but some people are heading off to other things.
I’ve had several guildies take breaks for a week or two with some pretty fun stories. Someone took part in a bass fishing tournament and did quite well, but sadly the tournament is for catch and release, so no one got to taste the winners. One of my guildmates returned to Korea for a bit and came back quite refreshed, ready to jump back into raiding and world PvP. Another guildmate came back from a rather short trip with an epic story involving alcohol, fireworks, and getting banned from a campsite.
Will you be doing anything interesting while away from WoW this holiday season? Will you meet a guildmate? Have a fling with another game? Maybe got some extra work done so you can pitch in more when people came back from their school breaks?
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Breakfast Topic: What will you do over the holiday season? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the AOL guest writer program that brings your words to WoW Insider’s pages.
I’m sure we’ve all heard or seen by now that summer and holiday breaks can be hard on the WoW playerbase. With school semesters wrapping up, many of us are returning back to our homes, jobs, and less World of Warcraft. I know some people will stick around and raid or hit up Rated Battlegrounds till their eyes bleed, but some people are heading off to other things.
I’ve had several guildies take breaks for a week or two with some pretty fun stories. Someone took part in a bass fishing tournament and did quite well, but sadly the tournament is for catch and release, so no one got to taste the winners. One of my guildmates returned to Korea for a bit and came back quite refreshed, ready to jump back into raiding and world PvP. Another guildmate came back from a rather short trip with an epic story involving alcohol, fireworks, and getting banned from a campsite.
Will you be doing anything interesting while away from WoW this holiday season? Will you meet a guildmate? Have a fling with another game? Maybe got some extra work done so you can pitch in more when people came back from their school breaks?
Filed under: Breakfast Topics, Guest Posts
Breakfast Topic: What will you do over the holiday season? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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World of Warcraft Lost Over 1 Million Subscribers This Year
Tom’s Hardware Guide However in a conference call following the Q3 2011 results announcement, Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mike Morhaime admitted that World of Warcraft's subscription count continues to fall, dropping from 11.1 million subscribers in June to 10.3 million in … World of Warcraft loses 800K subs in 3 months World of Warcraft Loses 2 Million Subscribers in a Year World of Warcrafts Subscriber Numbers Continue to Drop |
Pop law abounds in The Lawbringer, your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. Mathew McCurley takes you through the world running parallel to the games we love and enjoy, full of rules, regulations, pitfalls and traps. How about you hang out with us as we discuss some of the more esoteric aspects of the games we love to play?
Remember in the last edition of Lawbringer, when I wrote that the majority of the questions post-BlizzCon 2011 were questions about panda people, whether Kung Fu Panda would sue, and how Pandaren are possible in China? Well, there was a third question: How can the Pet Battle system exist in World of Warcraft when it is so spiritually and mechanically similar to the underlying game mechanics of the Pokémon franchise? The truth is that it is and it isn’t as similar as you might suspect, and the key factors in any copyright fight don’t hold up a potential cause of action.
From the BlizzCon presentation, we gleaned a good bit of information about the WoW Pet Battle system coming with Mists of Pandaria. Players have been collecting companion (or vanity) pets for years, little dudes and dudettes who follow your characters around looking cool, performing cute emotes, and acting as the occasional status symbol. Companion pets even became the first foray into Blizzard-accepted real-money gold buying with the Guardian Cub as an experiment in fighting gray-market gold selling. Companion pets have become their own meta-game in WoW despite the introduction of the actual meta-game Pet Battle system.
Companion pets will now be at the center of a minigame of their own. After years of collecting and coveting, finally these pets will serve a purpose beyond looking adorable or annoying Dalaran with chilling screams of “NEW TOYS, FOR ME?!” Many players have noticed that the Pet Battle system bears a striking resemblance to the biggest pet battle system franchise ever created, Pokémon. Do you know what Pokémon is? I’m sure you know what Pokémon is.
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The Lawbringer: Gotta sue ‘em all over the Pet Battle system? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Lawbringer: Gotta sue 'em all over the Pet Battle system?
Joystiq Well, there was a third question: How can the Pet Battle system exist in World of Warcraft when it is so spiritually and mechanically similar to the underlying game mechanics of the Pokémon franchise? The truth is that it is and it isn't as similar as … |