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  • It is Official! Knights of the Old Republic MMORPG

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    Exciting news! BioWare‘s secret MMO project has been unveiled and my hopes are being realized! Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Massively Multi-Player Online Game is slated for release in 2009, and if all goes well, this MMO will deliver where Star Wars Galaxies failed. BioWare has a track record of developing outstanding computer…

  • Knights of the Old Republic MMORPG

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    I’m a huge fan of Star Wars and many many things Star Wars related (but not all). I was just reading The Flog and was alerted to this awesome news about BioWare‘s new MMORPG. New MMORPG? Yup. And it turns out that it may very well be based on the Knights of the Old Republic…

  • MMORPG Laws

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    My pal Casey over at MaisonBisson.com has made a follow up post to my MMORPG Cheating post. I figured it warranted me making another post rather than simply replying to his blog. He writes: Matt says my attempts to analogize online roleplaying games to more familiar contests like chess or automobile racing are “just silly.”…

  • MMORPGs and Perception of Value

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    I made a post a little while back that on MMORPG Cheating and received a very interesting and convincing argument from Gaming Freedom that I thought warranted another post. Basically, the previous post was to emphasize how MMORPGs should be taken a little bit more serious when it comes to its future and how they…

  • Marketing MMORPGs to Women

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    There is a discussion going on my Crimson Eagles message boards spawned by the article I mention in The Holy Grail regarding marketing MMORPGs to women. A fellow gamer writes: I think the female population is left in the dust. From a marketing perspective and a financial perspective, itd be superb to get the female…

  • MMORPG Cheating

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    My friend Casey over at MaisonBisson posted an article (Wide World of Video Games) where he shoots down the ideas of laws that are being built around MMORPGs and the reasons behind them. I don’t entirely agree with his statement: One argument is that these games occupy players time and cost money, so in-game theft…

  • Most Popular MMORPG

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    Well, as expected, Blizzard has once again created the most popular game of a given category! In a press release on Blizzard‘s site they announced meeting the 1 million paying customer mark in the US! Bringing the total of paying customers world wide to over 4 million. Assuming ~4 million customers @ $15/month…thats $60,000,000 every…

  • WTB Epic Flying Mount For 1 Butt Tattoo

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    World of Warcraft is permeating our lives and what we do to ourselves. Wow. This guy is truly one crazy dude. Read this quote from this member of the Garithos guild on the server of the same name. I was about 4000g away from being able to purchase my epic flying mount and riding skill,…

  • Google Maps: Map World of Warcraft

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    Google Maps has been taken to a whole new level. The greatest mashup of the gaming world has been created using data from World of Warcraft and the Google Maps API. The end result is brilliant! Its name? MapWoW. What is it exactly? Well, its a map of World of Warcraft that you can zoom…

  • Bude’s Rip-Out Tunage

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    Bude tells me that he’s been ripping out in DotA and WoW to this song. In fact, here’s a quote from Bude himself: This song is f’n dangerous – it gets you pumped so bad you might actually break shit. When the drum beats hit before the solo – watch the FUCK OUT! So if…

  • Huxley, MMOFPS

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    Huxley looks awesome. See for yourself: Huxley is a Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter (MMOFPS) – built on the Unreal 3 Engine – scheduled for release sometime in 2007 (date not yet announced). Its the first of its type and has grabbed my attention both from the backstory, graphics, and game style. Its got…

  • Grooming Real Life Leadership Through Virtual Worlds

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    My friend Jon passed this article from Wired Magazine off to me as it suits my interests a bit more. This article reiterates what I have been chanting for some time now, real world lessons can be learned in virtual worlds like World of Warcraft. Gaming tends to be regarded as a harmless diversion at…

  • Shop Talk on World of Warcraft. WoW is the next Golf?

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    Slashdot directed me to an article over at 1up. It seems that Joi Ito is singing the same song that I have been since my immersion in World of Warcraft. Joi Itio, “the money-and-idea guy behind internet companies PSINet, Digital Garage, Infoseek Japan, and social software like Moveable Type, Technorati, and Socialtext” is pleasantly addicted…

  • 0.07% of the World’s Population Plays World of Warcraft

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    World of Warcraft has increased in numbers since my last post. 0.07% of the World’s Population play WoW. Thats crazy. Doesn’t seem like much? Well, its 5 million people. What will that number be after Christmas? And yes, WoW has gained me as a subscriber once more…

  • OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1

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    This article on Escapist Magazine is amazingly funny and oddly true. It summarizes the assumptions that most on-line gamers have regarding gamer girls…attractive ones at that. Here’s an excerpt: I am a girl on the internet. Yes, I said it. A girl on the internet. There really are quite a few of us. I can…