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The Ten Plagues of MMOs

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

I recently found this “Top 10 Problems with MMO’s” topic shared by GMTristan.com. This IGN article talks about the factors in MMOs that persistently annoys its players and takes the genre away from potential users.
Either you love them or hate them, here’s my take on the ten plagues of MMOs that should be avoided by [...]

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New study finds Adult MMO gamers introverted and unhealthy

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Are adult MMO gamers the new couch potato? According to the report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, they find links between video gaming and health issues in older demographics aged 35 years old and above.
The author of the said article, Dr. James B Weaver III, has hypothesized that adults who choose [...]

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Top 12 most anticipated MMOs in ChinaJoy 2009

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

The 6th China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference took place between July 23 and 26 in Shanghai, and it’s also officially called ChinaJoy 2009. Like the US Electronic Entertainment Exp (E3) or and Japan’s Tokyo Game Show, ChinaJoy is now the most important industry get-together for the Chinese game industry. According to recent China [...]

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Breaking dawn…errr news, be ready for Twilight MMO!

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Twilighters, brace yourselves for Twilight massive multiplayer online game! If you are a die-hard Twilight book fan, you can relive your favorite characters by being one of the vamparish Cullens family or join the pack of Jacob Black awooooh (as well as play as the plain jain Bella). Will this game be contagious as the [...]

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No pain, no disease, no dead, no tragedy in perfect Second Life

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Here’s a MMO-inspired music video from breakout rock group “Tarsha”, a Los Angeles based rock band fronted by vocalist Sheldon Tarsha. This song “Second Life” is said to have lyrics influenced apparently by the Second Life game and the no-pain-no-disease-no-dead-no-tragedy line perfectly fits this virtual world. Though this metal rock song and visual aesthetics [...]

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Microsoft supports against sexual defamation through Xbox Live

Monday, July 20th, 2009

The Microsoft has come under fire from its members over their implemented policy in Xbox Live for gamertags that are offensive and queer. If you use your real surname like “Gaywood” or scientific word “HomoSapien” as your gamertag, you’ll be barred from using it and even force you to change it before you can login [...]

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President Obama broadcasts live historic Ghana speech on Second Life game

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

The 2008 presidential campaign of Barrack Obama has been dubbed one of the successful political strategy of this information age. No election mediums were spared during his campaign as he was able to utilize the xbox360 console. He took advantage of the in-game advertising (IGA) by putting up his electronic billboard ads to various Xbox360 [...]

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Gaikai Technology Demo: Play World of Warcraft on Firefox browser! – with HD beta demo video

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Gaming industry visionary “David Perry”, one of the brains behind the Off Cloud-Based Gaikai Game Service, has released (just this month) a video sample on this revolutionary new technology that lets you play your favorite MMOs with an Internet browser. In this beta demo, it unveils actual games that can be run within Firefox browser [...]

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Starcraft 2 bids farewell to LAN, hello Battle.net! – with HD Gameplay Video

Monday, July 6th, 2009

In the recent Blizzard’s conference, Starcraft II VP game designer Rob Pardo has officially announced that the local area network (LAN) support will not exist in this highly anticipated sequel of Starcraft, where the LAN feature actually has been the one who has helped the popularity of this game. Instead, the developers are pushing the [...]

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Square Enix allegedly deceived 100,000 Final Fantasy XI MMO customers?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

According to Courthouse News Service, the online gaming company Square Enix of America is being sued due to their questionable fees and penalties in Final Fantasy XI services. The named plaintiff “Esther Leong” claims that the company has been deceiving their 100,000 customers by lying about the Final Fantasy MMORPG’s monthly fees, penalties for late [...]

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