Yes, there have been a ton of problems with hacked accounts in World of Warcraft, some of them due to power-leveling services, some due to talented hackers, and a few due to stupidity.
Yes, there have been attempts to combat the problem by Blizzard, with various levels of success.
Yes, there’s now a keyfob.
This means th-…wait a […]
Worlds In Motion has an interesting story up today about Virtual Greats, a new company being launched by Millions of Us, an ad agency that deals with corporate and product branding inside virtual worlds.
Virtual Greats is one of those concepts that will either be a dismal failure, or the type of concept that will see […]
Dear players,
I want to start out with something you probably haven’t given much thought to…I’m a gamer, too. That means that, at some point, I’ve been affected by bad MMORPG launches, game-breaking bugs and nerfs the size of buffalo to my favorite class.
You seem to be under the impression that I’m just some tech […]
Dear developers,
We’ve had some good times, haven’t we? Of course, they haven’t all been good, but what relationship is perfect? I mean, my girlfriend has said we can’t have sex until my gear matches hers, which I assume means “start raiding higher-level instances, you noob” and not “you need surgery”, but that’s beside the point.
You’ve […]
I’ve talked about this before, but there seems to be a bit of a glitch in the way gamers look at MMORPG development; for that matter, there seems to be a few glitchy devs running around as well.
Consider this the official release of patch 1.1 for your MMO gaming brain; it’s mostly a bugfix, but […]
If there’s one sure-fire way to the hearts of gamers, it’s with what the ancient Romans called “teh b00bie5″. (Ed. note: Not really.) Seriously, sex in video games tends to get quite a bit of attention these days, and that’s from people that have never been in the Deeprun Tram tunnel late on a Saturday […]
Like everyone else, I’ve always wondered what would happen if you caught the Blizzard dev team at an absinthe shot party, showed them Maplestory, and then gave them a computer with Flash installed.
Thankfully, I discovered on Kotaku that we’ve all been answered.
Seriously, you have to try it to believe it. Of course, Aoedipus and Skyhamma […]
Up, down, good, bad…the buzz surrounding Funcom’s new Age of Conan has been mixed, to put it mildly, with some saying the game would flop right out of the gate.
This, of course, is why you don’t listen to forum warriors crying “I’m gonna cancel my pre-order!11!!” during beta.
Funcom has announce that it has shipped 700,000 […]
(Today’s post was guest-written by Victor Von Doom, doctor of physics, bloodthirsty tyrant and president of the Hello Kitty Online Fan Club.)
Attend me, fools, for I am Doom.
Much has been made of the recent troubles in the virtual online community Age of Conan, with some suggesting that the current interface software is of an old […]
Not wanting to be left behind in the Web 2.1 race, The Bill Gates Armageddon Machine Microsoft has a unique different web mashup utility up, Popfly.
Any similarity between this and what they think Raph is doing over at Metaplace is entirely non-coincidental, not to mention entirely incorrect.
Metaplace is striving to make interactive social applications accessible […]