I’ve not met a single World of Warcraft die-hard friend who appreciates gold sellers and buyers. However, gold selling has been a constant ever since the game kicked off. This week PayPal has started to do something about it. The eBay owned money mover has started to shutdown accounts belonging to some of the biggest […]
Play World of Warcraft with the Kinect
A team from the University of Southern California has developed a free to download system that will let you play World of Warcraft or other off-the-shelf titles with the Kinect. The Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (aka FAAST) was put together by the USC’s Institude for Creative Technologies, is currently available for Windows and […]
Sex for Everquest
Oh dear. This photograph of a “post secret” dated 2007 surfaced on Reddit today. Just in case you can’t read the handwriting it says; “My husband let other men sleep with me so he could better equipment for his Everquest Character. I thought it was fun at the time. Now it makes me sad.” Poor […]
Little Mermaid’s Part Of Their World vs WOW’s Part of Your Guild
Le sigh! Some people have some too much talent. I actually picked this post up from Nerd Bastards who noted the talents but also her “twin cannons”. Dear me. If we’re going to talk about talent then let’s focus on the voice. How impressive is this parody? It really is something special. Trust me. Listen. […]
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Cinematic Intro
Last night the Cataclysm Cinematic Intro was uploaded to YouTube. This morning the video’s had nearly 100,000. you know it’s going to wrack up many times that figure before the end of the week. The honours for the video are impressive; in the top 10 most viewed videos for most countries around the world and […]
World of Warcraft agrees with Doctor Evil: Epic sharks with laser beams
Find a WoW player and get them to tell you about the Maelstrom. It’s got big, scary monsters or some-such-thing. As it their way, Blizzard has been tinkering with things as they gear up to release their latest expansion. This prompted yet another discussion on the forums. Ako brought up this point; What I meant […]
Gamers Gaikai score with Intel investment
This looks interesting. The over-the-internet games provider Gaikai has just landed some investment – some moola – with Intel Capital and Limelight Networks. The way Gaikai works is to let users play games like World of Warcraft without a download, install and just over the internet. A competitor would be a company like OnLive. What […]
MMO-Champion sold to Curse
Major League Gaming have sold MMO-Champion to Curse.com for an undisclosed sum. This likely represents MLG getting rid of none core assets to try and increase liquidity and Curse.com, very much, continuing on their “ooh, they look successful; buy them!” spree. MMO-Champion’s CEO Fabien Bonte will be joining Curse. They’ve promised a redesign of MMO-Champion […]
Which computer game has the biggest world?
Check this out – click for a larger picture – if you want a rather clever analysis of the size of computer game worlds. World of Warcraft is not the largest. Oblivion looks surprisingly small. Mind you; not every one likes sandbox style games. I can imagine sometimes world size isn’t attractive. Can big be […]
The Celestial Mount might earn World of Warcraft $2.5m an hour
Activision-Blizzard’s bankers will be happy. The folks at ITworld have done some maths and figure the new Celestial Mount could be earning the World of Warcraft owners up to $2.5m each and every hour. This is due to two basic rules; high price and high demand. How high is the price? The Celestial Mount costs […]
