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Dungeons and Dragons Online comes out tomorrow, for all five of you who aren’t playing World of Warcraft and aren’t satisified with your meatspace d20 experience. The New York Times has an article on the thinking behind the game and reminds everyone that Vin Diesel is a big nerd.

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The Internet is for porn

On Google Video there’s a video of a cast of World of Warcraft characters performing the song “The Internet Is For Porn” from the musical Avenue Q. They’ve done a great job of syncing the movements to the words and it’s funny stuff, so find out once and for all what the Internet is good [...]

Rakion provides impressive guarding and the grabbing techniques

Softnyx, the Korean dudes behind Gunbound, are starting the international beta of this game called Rakion tomorrow. You can experience the thrills of unleashing large men to kill tinier men with your companions from the United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel. Luckily I live in one of those countries so [...]

In space, no one can hear you bitch about in-game ads

In the future, no MMORPG will ever die, but instead the ratio of ads to players will eventually increase so much that it collapses in on itself. (from the PlanetSide forums)

Let’s do this

You know a catchphrase has reached saturation status when you can buy shirts related to the phenomenon are available from not one (scroll down) but two separate places of business.

Giving the World of Warcraft a Coke

A commercial mixing Coke and World of Warcraft, two great tastes that go great together.

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LEEEEEEEEEEROY!

Check out this video (Windows Media) of a guild, PALS FOR LIFE, carefully strategizing for an attack and witness the ensuing chaos. Yes, it’s staged, but still funny. From the World of Warcraft forums via SA.

Sony flips stance on selling of in-game goods for cash

Sony has opened up the Station Exchange, a place for Everquest II players to buy and sell virtual goods in auctions and pay with real cash. Apparently the fact that Sony gets a service fee with each transaction means that the old reasons for banning the practice just kind of went away. Naturally you have [...]

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Golf

A post by Alice made me remember this crazy Korean golf game called Pangya that I played a bit of some time ago. It’s pretty fun for awhile as long as you don’t mind getting pounded into the ground by people willing to pay money to upgrade their characters (yes, real money). I found out [...]

Scifi author to discuss book in MMOG

Science fiction author Cory Doctorow, who you may know from the popular group blog Boing Boing, will be discussing his newest book Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town in the online game Second Life sometime in July. Yes, in-game, as in he’ll be chatting just like any other player and be subject to the [...]