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THE FIRST HIT’S ALWAYS FREE [Author: Lum the Mad]

I guess I’m not on Verant’s Publicity Puff List (sound of my heart shattering into small bits) but thankfully, the priapic pimpmasters over at Voodoo Extreme are. They posted this squib just now: Nope, the monthly fee is the same, but Verant has announced that its dropping the

SOME INDUSTRIES ARE MORE FOOLISH THAN OTHERS [Author: Lum the Mad]

Still getting word of April Fool’s jokes played on/by the MMO community (well, either that or our email is slow and unreliable, and we’d never believe that!). In Everquest, Baelish at Caster’s Realm sent a chill through the hearts of Clerics and Druids everywhere when he

I GUESS I JUST MISS MY BOYS [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

Once upon a time, There was Ultima Online. There was no Second Age, there was no Renaissance, and no Third Dawn. There were no “safe lands” and there were no shortcuts to the GrandMastery of any skill. A grandmaster was exactly what the term indicates: someone who devoted themselves to

CARLY “LADYMOI” STAEHLIN LEAVES OSI, RICK HALL TO TAKE OVER AS UO PRODUCER [Author: Lum the Mad]

Rumors have been flying about all morning about this, and we just got word from Susan “Leilo” Kath, OSI’s online community head, that Rick “Stellerex” Hall will be taking over for Carly “LadyMOI” Staehlin as Ultima Online’s Producer. Stellerex was previously the producer for the recently released “Third

WALL STREET DISCOVERS VIDEO GAMES, PROJECTS 25% SALES GROWTH FOR EA OVER NEXT 5 YEARS [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

Wall Street City, a website whose domino in the big watch-the-internet-tumble-one-page-at-a-time festival has yet to tip, has “broken the story” that video games have come a long way since Donkey Kong. And we wonder why the dot.com house of cards has fallen down. You can read the article for

OH YEAH, AND OSI SHUT DOWN UO2, VERANT SHUT DOWN WHINEPLAY, AND DEREK SMART THINKS JEFFK IS REAL [Author: Lum the Mad]

As always, April 1 was an exciting day for news from the gaming industry. First up, Asheron’s Call and Asheron’s Call 2 got cancelled. A Canadian web site (using the @IP URL redirect trick) “got the scoop” on that one.) Thankfully it wasn’t all gloom and doom

TIP JAR FULL, SO IS WEB SERVER [Author: Lum the Mad]

Well, within moments we made the April bill, which is, um, cool and stuff. You guys are swell, even when you bitch at us. Anyway, STOP GIVING US MONEY. Thanks. We’ll let you know when the next bill comes due. What is not swell is this server, and we