I’ve gone ahead and switched the internal blog commenting system back on. The forums will stick around in their current woefully ignored state (I’ll probably need them for something else eventually) but I haven’t had the time to integrate them ...

All Sanya Weathers stalkers please update your Foursquare apps: she’s no longer a Tera forum moderator. (Did you know she was a Tera forum moderator? Neither did they!) Apparently she has something new coming up involving hardcore PvP show tunes. (which. ...

"I just made $12 million while you were laughing at this picture." Modern Warfare 3 to ship with a subscription service called Call of Duty: Elite. Well, then. This is so industry-asploding money-printing what-were-movies-again big that some news sources you don’t expect ...

Cryptic acquired by Chinese MMO developer Perfect World for $50m. Atari originally purchased Cryptic for $28m plus $48m in bonuses. In other news, I bet I just broke everyone’s RSS feed! Read more from the original source: 隐秘

Guardian: Chinese labor camps using slave labor to farm for gold in WoW “Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour,” Liu told the Guardian. “There were 300 ...

Oh, hi, I have a blog still. (I’d feel more guilty about neglecting it if someone didn’t invent the RSS feed.) Ryan Seabury, formerly of NetDevil and very small genitalia, found a really great way to hype his new social game ...

Image: Ars Technica SOE hasn’t had a good month already, and yesterday it got a whole lot worse. The crisis at Sony deepened on Tuesday as it admitted that an extra 25 million customers who played games on its Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) ...

From the New York Times, apparently World of Warcraft players are reproducing. Multiplayer games encourage such alliances. The beginner’s guide to World of Warcraft notes that you can go it alone, “but by going it alone, you won’t be able to ...

Picture is unrelated. From this: Let’s imagine that you got to sit down with an MMO developer of your choice and ask him or her one direct question. The catch? That dev would have to give you a direct, straight answer ...

RockPaperShotgun with a fascinating interview with The Mittani, terror of Eve, laird of Goonswarm, and currently politicking it up in Iceland. One of the reasons we make jokes about Eve being a bad game, or a spreadsheet or what have you, ...

Richard Garriott on EA’s moves to quash Ultima remakes and probable franchise reboot: I can’t control EA plans for the word Ultima. But we all know that only my team can create the true heir to my previous work. So all you ...

Courtesy of @juliandibbell, the financials for a typical Eastern European WoW gold factory. See the original article here: Workin’ In A Gold Mine, Goin’ Down Down, Working In A Gold Mine, Whew About To Slip Down

The axe fell at the house Firiona Vie built today, as rum0rs have spread (many of which I can confirm anecdotally) that their Seattle studio (where the perpetually delayed The Agency title was in development) as well as their recently ...

All shall bow before the virtue of Justice! The various Ultima 4 (yes, the one made in 1985, before many of you were born) remakes floating around the web were hit by EA cease and desist letters this week despite EA, ...

As part of Rogers (Canada’s largest cable ISP) essentially declaring war on Bittorrent, Canadian World of Warcraft players discovered they weren’t immune, as it was discovered this weekend through an audit by Canada’s telecom regulator that Rogers classified the game ...

Aww, our little hobby made the big time From the Orange County Craigslist comes this: I got my WoW account banned yesterday during the archaeology bot ban wave. I wasn’t a gold farmer or seller, never bought gold. I just botted ...

Successful leaders of totalitarian states wear good suits. MGM has decided at the last minute that making a movie called “Red Dawn”  about China totally invading the US to death (instead of, you know, merely foreclosing) might not be a good ...

It was good enough for me in 2004, it's good enough for me now, dammit. Wagner James Au, one of the most relentless boosters for Second Life (he used to work for the maintainers, wrote a book on the subject and ...

Lord British, last seen in Ultima Online 3,647 days ago. Do you have $3.8 million lying about? Richard Garriott wants to talk to YOU. Lord British’s New Britannia (working title) will be a social networking game built around Garriott’s famous alter ego, ...

This is why we play computer games. Be careful if you complain on Bioware forums about EA, or you may find that Dragon Age 2 DVD is so much shiny hurlock metal. We’ve seen Arno’s correspondence with BioWare, and it’s fair to ...

This never seems to happen in WoW. In Eve, if you run an RMT shop, Eve players WILL TOTALLY HAX0R YOUR GIBSON. Based in Chişinău, the capital of Moldova, Iskbank.com has been operating in its current incarnation since December of 2009, and ...

Jack Emmert to take over as CEO of Cryptic. ...of our days, and our nights... As a colleague, I am sad to see John go, but our vision remains clear,” says Emmert. “Cryptic continues to develop great gaming experiences while ensuring the ...

In SWTOR, no need to wait for the game to actually ship before forming your guild. See the original article here: Early Access To Guild Drama

‘I HAVE ALL THE COINS!!‘ (mirror) Needless to say, people who’ve *actually* dealt with online game players found this entirely too amusing. Go here to see the original: How To Grief GDC

You unlock Tardis at level 20 and Rather Spiffy Tardis at level 40. Three Rings gets tapped to develop a Doctor Who MMO for the BBC. Daniel James, CEO Three Rings says, “Three Rings is delighted and honored to have the opportunity ...

Just sayin' Rift launched via head start today. 1 million accounts, 33 servers, some waiting required. In response, some competitors conspire to release major updates. Other competitors have really bad coincidences. See the original article here: You’re Probably Not Playing Rift Today

Welp. (This image is the Facebook avatar for a distressing number of former NetDevil employees this morning.) The axe fell at long-troubled NetDevil yesterday – and according to some developers, word actually circulated among the devs themselves via Facebook before the ...

For some reason, this image comes up in Google Image Search for "Bill Roper". Bill Roper, of Blizzard/Flagship/Cryptic/his living room fame, gives a wide ranging interview to Gamasutra about what it was like to go from Diablo to a game considerably ...

The eternal question given to anyone gaming online sans Y chromosome: You play video games? Are you fat, ugly, or slutty? Discuss a/s/l Read the original, in all its glory, right here: Really, You Only Need Two Out Of Three

(Courtesy of WoWBash) Discuss: If you disagree, you’re wrong, and that’s sad. Read more from the original source: The Best MMO Petition Of All Time

EA CFO Eric Brown, in a conference call to investors, said EA CFO Eric Brown didn’t know what he was talking about when he said Old Republic was EA’s largest project ever. “At half a million subscribers, the game is substantially ...

Oh, hi, I have a blog. Sorry, been busy. So, let’s talk about dickwolves. (Most of the links below came from this recap, which apparently is being updated in progress in case you just can’t get enough dickwolf.) Penny Arcade a while ...

If you can see this, congrats, you’ve travelled with the blog to the new server. The current lazy blue theme will change shortly, and there will be more forum< ->blog integration as soon as I code up some (since the current ...

Well, you be the judge on if that may be a bit strong: Blue Mars, which until today was positioning itself as a Second Life-style virtual world with better graphics and less rampaging genitalia, announced that they were ‘refocusing’ on ...

Time for a NORTH KOREAN DANCE PARTY www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk Discuss: You’re going to have to face it, you’re addicted to Juche. Read the original, in all its glory, right here: Happy Friday