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Man Spends $16,000 on Virtual Sword for a Game That Isn’t Even on Sale Yet

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To get more publicity for its upcoming MMORPG Age of Wulin…, developer Snail Games held an online auction of one off in-game items. And more publicity they got, thanks to one die-hard and deep-pocketed fan, who paid $16,000 (USD) for a sword. Bits of data that he can’t even

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December 30th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Star Wars: The Old Republic Surpasses 1 Million Subscribers, Billlions of NPCs Dead

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EA and Bioware are truly using the force, since Star Wars: The Old Republic… has already passed the 1 million mark, according to a press release issued by both companies. They claim that it’s the fastest MMO ever to reach the number.

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December 26th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

Diablo III Details Disappoint Gamers

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If you are a fan of the Diablo franchise from Blizzard, you have probably been waiting for the new game in the franchise to land called Diablo III.… Some details on the game surfaced today and hardcore gamers can trust me when I say you won’t be happy.

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August 1st, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

Razer Star Wars The Old Republic Keyboard & Mouse: Gaming with the Sith

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One of the best games that I’ve played was Knights of the Old Republic. Hopefully, Bioware’s upcoming title, Star Wars: The Old Republic…, will be something along the same lines (in a MMORPG way). Needless to say, if you’re gaming on your PC, you’ll need a nifty keyboard

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June 8th, 2011 by: Range

MMORPG Gamers and Their Avatars: a Mirror for the Virtual Self

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Back in 2003, a CEO that photographer Robbie Cooper was taking pictures of told Cooper about how he used EverQuest… to spend quality time with his kids who were living with his ex-wife. This eventually led Cooper to embark on a journey to discover more about MMORPG gamers and their

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May 12th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Video Game Property Sells for $335,000: Why Aren’T We Playing This Game?

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If EVE Online is famous for heists and other virtual crimes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the players of Planet Calypso, another MMORPG, have been earning loads of money through more diplomatic means. One of Planet Calypso’s… asteroids, plus a number of properties within said asteroid, was recently

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November 10th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Level Up! Guild Wars 2 Pwns Other Mmorpgs With a Graph

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Grinding. It’s one of the ugliest aspects of MMORPGs, or RPGs in general. I remember reading an article about Ultima Online… many many years ago, where the situation got so bad that one of the dungeons was actually running out of monsters. There were so many players inside that as

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August 4th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

5 Minute Mmorpg: Hurry Up and Get It Over With

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If you don’t have the time, patience (or money) to commit to games like World of Warcraft, you might want to check out this game…

5 Minute MMORPG… works exactly as advertised. The browser-based Flash game lets you go online against other live players (okay, 10 simultaneous players isn’t

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May 5th, 2010 by: Technabob

Eve Multi-Boxing Rig Lets One Guy be Massively-Multiplayer All by Himself

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This insane looking computer setup lets the guy controlling it play numerous MMORPG sessions of the same game at the same time.

Hacked together by Zhek Kromtor, his computing rig is used for playing multiple rounds of EVE Online simultaneously. It looks like he’s able to play 12 games at…

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April 11th, 2010 by: Technabob

Skyrates: the Game That Doesn’T Want You to be Addicted to It

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Originally a project by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, the award-winning Flash game Skyrates is centered around the idea of “sporadic play”, letting players be part of a persistent and ever-changing massively multiplayer environment without requiring them to spend huge amounts of time playing. In Skyrates, players can…

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April 5th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

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