Pacific Epoch - Shanda’s Aurora Bans accounts of males playing females!

I have not been able to find the original story but there is one of the few I have found about this. I do not play this game, never heard of it, and really do not care what they do their player base. I do, however find real life validation of a player [...]

WoW -> Community -> Machinima Movies

Blizzard has proven that they are (somewhat) in touch with their player base.; They have added a Machinima section. If you are like me, you have never really heard that term before but have see the little in game “Movies” that are made.
Here is what good ol’ wikipedia had to say about what it [...]

WoW: Voice chat only comming to some servers… the first week

Blizzard community team member Drysc made a post yesterday letting us know that only some servers will get the new voice chat the first week, all the rest will get them the following week
In the upcoming patch we will be introducing voice chat, which allows players to talk to each other in-game with the [...]

MMORPG players not socially introverted, says study // GamesIndustry.biz

As if we needed a university to prove statements like “Wow is the new golf” , well we got it.
A new study by researchers at Nottingham Trent University, published in the US journal CyberPsychology and Behavior, dispels the myth that online gamers are asocial.
?This study has revealed many aspects of MMORPGs that were not known [...]

Friday Update: Letter from the Game Director - Age of Conan Forums

Today Gaute, the Funcom bigwig posted an open letter to the community about the delay of AoC and the why behind it. It is not a bad letter, I find most of it just damage control, but when you delay “The next big thing” by a year, you need to be ready to explain [...]

WoW+Paypal= Evil

Well I think this is one of the seven signs to the end of the world!
We’re pleased to announce that we’re now able to accept PayPal payments for World of Warcraft subscriptions. Both current and new subscribers can now assign their PayPal account as their automatic payment method on the Account Management page. If you [...]

Funcom - Funcom announce new release date for Age of Conan

I am not surprised by this. I spend over two years working with Funcom on their Anarchy Online title a member of their Advisors of Rubi-Ka program. After the near death of AO due to a bad launch, I can see why they want to wait on the release.
I also have to say [...]