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AND NOW THE FAKE NEWS [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

FAKE NEWS EXCLUSIVE: FUNCOM TO PURCHASE WOLFPACK FOR UNDISCLOSED SUM OF MONEY AND A COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER TO BE NAMED LATER Sources entirely made up by the Fake News Center are reporting that hot on the heels of recent unprecedented success by Norwegian developer FunCom, said developer has purchased competitive

ANARCHY ONLINE STILL DOWN, BUT SECURELY DOWN [Author: Lum the Mad]

In case you’ve been waiting for Funcom to add SSL encryption to their web server, according to Funcom’s patch server it’s up now. I have to take the patch server’s word for it, since, like seemingly every other server associated with Funcom the past two days,

NEW ZONE IN EQ [Author: myschyf]

So there I was…..minding my own business in The Overthere, when all of a sudden I see the message: “d00d sow plz”. Of course, my natural instinct was not to answer, since I thought the clueless newb (hereafter referred to politely as “the petitioner”) must have been poorly informed

LTM, ANARCHY ONLINE BOTH DOWN MOST OF YESTERDAY [Author: Lum the Mad]

Unfortunately, that’s where the good news ends. Despite the best hopes of AO’s partisans, Funcom had no rabbit to pull out of its hat on release. The client released to the world was the identical client that beta 4 testers were using (in fact, beta testers could log

WHERE NO NORWEGIAN HAS GONE BEFORE [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

More from the Island of Misfit Toys, formerly known as Norway: Thanks to J for pointing me to Fear who quoted from this dude, the following moment of sheer insanity from the mind of Mister Morton Byom: MB: I think one of the biggest challenges we had is that there

WHAT’S IN A NAME? [Author: Eldin]

A lawsuit, apparently. No, no lawsuit has been filed as of yet, however, let\’e2\’80\’99s take a look at an article from Dr. Twister (that Jerry Springer of the online world): Funcom support, I am formally asking for redress of grievances for the theft of my name. I

AND FROM THIS CORNER… [Author: Lum the Mad]

You knew that with Anarchy Online opening up, Asheron’s Call announcing an expansion and Ultima Online tossing all the rules in their “Crown Royal” dicebag and doing a reroll, that Everquest had to do something. That something, Sullon Zek (called “Gankus Zek” fondly by most of us) went live