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  • Razer announces drivers for the Mac

    Razer announces drivers for the Mac

    Razer announced today that they are going to be releasing Mac drivers for all of their future products. This comes on the heels of the announcement that Steam is coming to the Macintosh as well.

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  • Atari and Cryptic anger the people who bought Star Trek Online at launch

    Atari and Cryptic anger the people who bought Star Trek Online at launch

    Remember Star Trek Online? Yeah, it came out waaaaay back on February 2nd of 2010. Well, it's Cryptic's game, but it's published by Atari, and since there maybe hasn't been the level of interest everyone was looking for, they are running a sale. It's a pretty good deal too, since you get the game for $10 off (which isn't so bad) and you an additional 60 days of free gameplay (which is the frustrating part). That's a total of 90 days of free play, including the 30 days that come with the purchase of the game. That seems really unfair to the players who pre-ordered or bought the game when it first came out.

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  • World of Warcraft hackers embrace man-in-the-middle attacks

    World of Warcraft hackers embrace man-in-the-middle attacks

    Here's some troubling news for my fellow World of Warcraftplayers. It seems that hackers, account thieves, and other miscreants have now embraced man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks to further their evil ways. Blizzard says it's not a widespread issue, and it's rather difficult to pull off, but it's something y'all should be aware of.

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  • Man alive, the World of Warcraft economy is quite elastic!

    Man alive, the World of Warcraft economy is quite elastic!

    There are people out there who take to World of Warcraft's Auction House like NYU Stern graduates take to Wall Street. The Auction House, for those unawares, is a place where WoW gamers can buy and sell in-game items using in-game currency. It can be incredibly complicated, and there are entire guides dedicated to "playing" the Auction House in order to make money. I've made a fair bit of coin by merely buying items at one, low price, then re-listing them on the Auction House for a new, higher price.

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  • Yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year

    Yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year

    It's earnings call season, and while no news is more shocking than the fact that WWE will drop the Survivor Series, there's something for World of Warcraft fans. And, really, who isn't a fan of World of Warcraft. Anyhow, yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year. We've (and by "we" I mean the WoW community) pretty much assumed as much since the expansion was first announced, but now the money men have made it official.

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  • Let’s talk about the World of Warcraft: Official Magazine for a bit

    Let’s talk about the World of Warcraft: Official Magazine for a bit

    You'll recall that, a few months ago, we mentioned that Blizzard, in collaboration with Future (the publisher responsible for Edge in the UK, among other magazines), would be creating a World of Warcraft-themed magazine. It's called World of Warcraft: Official Magazine and I just received the very first issue, Winter 2009. From a visual standpoint, the magazine is gorgeous. It's like looking at a work of art. These guys clearly know their way around Adobe InDesign.

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  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soars past $1 billion in retail sales

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soars past $1 billion in retail sales

    Remember back a couple months? The biggest news on Earth was the Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard screwed up MW2 and the game was going to fall into a bucket of fail. There were boycotts, petitions, and general chaos concerning the shooter. Then it launched. Then people started playing it in droves. Then people shut-up and within two months the title surpassed $1,000,000,000 in retail sales.

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  • SteelSeries announces StarCraft 2 keyset, March of the Scourge mouse pad

    SteelSeries announces StarCraft 2 keyset, March of the Scourge mouse pad

    SteelSeries continues to work that IP license with Blizzard by announcing two new products aimed directly at gamers: a Zboard StarCraft 2 keyset, and a World of Warcraft: March of the Scourge mouse pad.

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  • Blizz helps bust WoW playing drug dealer

    Blizz helps bust WoW playing drug dealer

    shamanYou can run, but you can't hide (in cyberspace). In one of the strangest stories of 2009, it's been reported that Blizzard worked with law enforcement to help catch a drug dealer.

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  • No, Blizzard doesn’t hate your console, leaves open the possibility of developing console games

    No, Blizzard doesn’t hate your console, leaves open the possibility of developing console games

    Oh, look, I'm taking a single remark from a lengthy interview and making an entire post about it. It concerns Blizzard, the famed developer of World of Warcraft and Diablo. You may think of Blizzard as a PC developer, but that ignores games like The Lost Vikings. Anyhow, Blizzard has said in an interview with Gamasutra, which always does good stuff, that it is not averse to making a console game in the future, just that it needs to be the right game.

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  • Oh boy: World of Warcraft Patch 3.3 goes live today

    Oh boy: World of Warcraft Patch 3.3 goes live today

    Tuesdays usually stink for World of Warcraft. The servers go down early in the morning for maintenance, and then stay down well after the scheduled time more often than you'd care to see. Today doesn't stink, since Patch 3.3 is indeed dropping. I cannot wait to leave the terribly fancy TC/CG office, get home, fire up the game, then PUG till the sun comes up.

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  • Will World of Warcraft’s Patch 3.3 drop tomorrow? Let’s hope so!

    Will World of Warcraft’s Patch 3.3 drop tomorrow? Let’s hope so!

    Tomorrow could be a very big day for World of Warcraft fans. (And aren't we all WoW fans?) Yes, players from Tokyo to Toledo, from London to Lima, are terribly excited about the possible release of the latest, and last, patch for Wrath of the Lich King. It'll bring the game to version 3.3, and, more importantly, bring about the demise of Arthas. Boo, Arthas!

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  • Celebrating 5 years of World of Warcraft

    Celebrating 5 years of World of Warcraft

    World of Warcraft turns 5-years-old today. Back on November 23, 2004, a year before the current generation of video game systems even began (with the launch of the Xbox 360), Blizzard released the massively multi-player online game at a time when massively multi-player online games were still largely the haunt of hardcore gamers, people with fast Internet connections who were willing to pay $15 per month for access to a game that they already bought. Who can forget the message board threads: Why do I have to pay for a game that I already paid for at the store? How do you beat the game? What happens if and when I stop playing?

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  • Reminder: You need to convert your World of Warcraft account to a Battle.net one today

    Reminder: You need to convert your World of Warcraft account to a Battle.net one today

    Just a friendly remind to all my fellow World of Warcraft players. You need to migrate your account to a Battle.net account by the end of the day today, lest you're unable to login.

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  • Blizzard starts selling in-game pets for real world money

    Blizzard starts selling in-game pets for real world money

    Really big World of Warcraft news today, friends. (Why do I write so much about WoW? Oh, you know, it's just the biggest, most successful MMO in history. Not writing about it would be like covering tech with mentioning Microsoft or Apple.) Blizzard is now selling in-game pets that you can buy with real money, $10. We're talking cash money. Dollar dollar bill, y'all.

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