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Leading a life of crime in Earthrise

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 0 views

Today's post-holiday Question of the Week for Earthrise concerns the game mechanics of being (and killing) criminals in the post-apocalyptic MMO. Players who opt to become felons will build up "Criminal Karma", what seems to be a sort of quantified notoriety. From what the developers are saying, it seems that ...

Does the “Raid Browser” Tool work in the same way the new Dungeon Finder Tool work? i.e. can you port into the raid directly?

Saturday, December 19th, 2009 0 views

Does the "Raid Browser" Tool work in the same way the new Dungeon Finder Tool work? i.e. can you port into the raid directly?

Getting started with the LotRO Skirmish system

Saturday, December 5th, 2009 0 views

With Lord of the Ring Online's Siege of Mirkwood expansion launch on Tuesday came the new Skirmish system. And with it also came a lot of questions. Though Turbine posted a number of Dev Diaries going over the various aspects of the new private instance system and its reward system, ...

Do you think Cataclysm is really just a sneaky way to release WoW2 without us noticing?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 0 views

Do you think Cataclysm is really just a sneaky way to release WoW2 without us noticing? A full talent rework for classes, a rebuild of the world for all levels of play and a reworking of stat allocation to name but a few changes. I get the feeling that Cataclysm ...

What’s keeping Silvermoon in the Horde?

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 0 views

What's keeping Silvermoon in the Horde?

Power upgrade may affect select realms

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 0 views

Blizzard has just announced that a facility where some WoW realms' servers are located will be undergoing a power system upgrade tomorrow, September 4th, from 8 AM Pacific to approximately 6 PM Pacific. They do not expect the upgrade to have any effect on the realms in question, and they say ...

BlizzCon 2009: Hands-on with Creative’s World of Warcraft headset

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 0 views

When they stopped by the WoW.com meetup last Thursday before BlizzCon, Creative not only brought along a prototype of their upcoming World of Warcraft headset to show some readers in attendance, but they invited us by their booth at the show to hold it in our hands and see just ...