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Blizzard to Arena teams: GG nubs, lrn2play

Exploding on the forums today: In preperation for flying the top-tier Arena teams to California for an e-sports frenzy, Blizzard apparently disqualified many of them for account sharing. A writer from one of those teams had this to say: Preparing to book travel for the qualified teams, Blizzard checked their

Microsoft: Open Source Has Cooties

Microsoft claims that open source software in Linux violates 235 Microsoft-held patents. Really, honest, they counted and everything. [Microsoft’s lawyer] says that the Linux kernel – the deepest layer of the free operating system, which interacts most directly with the computer hardware – violates 42 Microsoft patents. The Linux graphical user

Is CCP about to cut out the middleman?

Sure looks like it. For those just joining us: * CCP (Crowd Control Productions) are the developers of Eve Online. * Eve Online is one of if not the most popular “niche” MMOs, with hardcore PvP and even more hardcore in-game economy. * As part of that economy, until recently, there was a

Your Papers, Please

Second Life dropped a bomb on its merry Elysium Friday: to get into the ‘mature’ areas of Second Life (which in practice is, well, 90% of Second Life), you’re gonna have to prove you can drink legally. (A further statement here.) Second Life has always been restricted to those

Kratos Is Displeased With You Puny Reviewers

David Jaffe dislikes reviews, takes ball, goes home. Penny Arcade, as always, with the trenchant prescient commentary!

Try Being An Internet Relations Manager, You Nutless Assmuncher

Today the announcement went up that Sanya Weathers, former Internet Relations Manager for EA Mythic on DAOC and Warhammer, was moving on to pursue new opportunities, onward and upward, exelsior, etc. If you played EQ, one of the first impressions that you probably got from Sanya Weathers is that she

IGE divests itself of, well, itself.

The other rumor F13 posted last week got confirmed. Basically, the web publishing arm of IGE (Thottbot/Allakhazam/Ogaming) sold the gold farming/brokering arm to everyone’s friend in space, Jonathan Yantis. It’s interesting that running Thottbot apparently makes more money than selling gil in FF11. Or, perhaps,