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IBM Japan is Making a Real Life Version of Sword Art Online, Will Hopefully Let Players Log Out

Reki Kawahara’s popular light novel and anime series Sword Art Online is about a group of gamers who become trapped in a virtual reality fantasy MMORPG. The gamers wore headsets that connected to their brain, stimulating…

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Ever, Jane: The Jane Austen MMORPG

Video games have been made to cover just about every genre you can think of. A new video game has surfaced on Kickstarter that covers one unusual genre that I’ve never thought about. This MMORPG has…

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Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues: Lord British Hits Kickstarter

Gamers familiar with the Ultima video game series have likely heard of its award-winning designer and creator, Richard “Lord British” Garriott. Garriott has launched his latest project, a new fantasy role-playing game called Shroud of the…

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Buy Your Own Virtual Moon for Only $150,000

I’ve seen some strange virtual items auctioned off for a lot of real world money, but the developers of the Massively Multiplayer Online Real Cash Economy (that’s what they call it) called Entropia Universe have taken…

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Father Hired In-Game Assassins to Save Son from Gaming Obsession

MMORPGs and other kinds of online games can take over your life, if you’re not careful. Just like most things, there’s something to be said about moderation. In order to save his son from his growing…

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Guild Wars 2 Coming to Mac, Beta Already Available… to PC Gamers. Go Figure.

Mac gamers are grateful for Blizzard, because it’s one of the few major companies that release Mac versions of their games alongside the more popular Windows version. ArenaNet says better late than never by announcing that…

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Blizzard Says Mists of Pandaria Isn’t the Last World Of Warcraft Expansion

I’ve had several friends over the years talk me into trying to play World of Warcraft with them over the years. I gave it a go on more than one occasion and always left after a…

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

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…

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

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…

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Diablo III Details Disappoint Gamers

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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5 Minute Mmorpg: Hurry Up and Get It Over With

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…

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

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…

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IBM Japan is Making a Real Life Version of Sword Art Online, Will Hopefully Let Players Log Out

Ever, Jane: The Jane Austen MMORPG

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues: Lord British Hits Kickstarter

Buy Your Own Virtual Moon for Only $150,000

Father Hired In-Game Assassins to Save Son from Gaming Obsession

Guild Wars 2 Coming to Mac, Beta Already Available… to PC Gamers. Go Figure.

Blizzard Says Mists of Pandaria Isn’t the Last World Of Warcraft Expansion

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

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

Diablo III Details Disappoint Gamers

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

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

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

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

5 Minute Mmorpg: Hurry Up and Get It Over With

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

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