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WELL, WE’RE BACK, KINDA, SORTA [Author: Lum the Mad]

So there’s lots of wreckage strewn about, and all, but we are in what hopefully will be our final home for some time. You will notice a lack of ad banners. This is because, and I know this probably will come as a shock to those who have read

AFTER YEARS OF WORK, AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS… [Author: Lum the Mad]

…we finally have the end result. (Thanks to Vix of Tradespot for the heads-up. Starr Long and Richard Garriott having an innocent beer and talking about absolutely nothing at all. Burn baby burn, disco inferno! Burn baby burn, all that work gone down…

WARDEN, GOD OF DIPLOMACY, LORD OF TACT, AND KING OF ALL MEDIA [Author: Lum the Mad]

J. had the following to say (excerpted heavily) on the official Shadowbane board regarding the current relative lack of information or screenshots being released: A year ago, you could have got away with it. A year ago, most of us thought we’d be playing the game by now. This

OBVIOUSLY THIS IS WHY THEY WERE SO EFFICIENT THEY COULD LAY EVERYONE OFF [Author: Lum the Mad]

EA’s tech support site is… um… interesting.

INFOGRAMES AUSTIN TO CLOSE, D&D ONLINE CANCELLED [Author: Lum the Mad]

A reliable source informs us that Infogrames Austin (formerly Hasbro), the design studio working on the Dungeons and Dragons Online MMOG, has closed today and laid off everyone working on the project. We’re trying to find out more on this and will keep you posted if we find out

IT USED TO BE A LIRA, BUT NOW IT’S JUST A DONG [Author: Lum the Mad]

Just in time for the UO3D release, Dell has a news story up about eBay and UO (thanks to Crashster for pointing it out). Normally not terribly newsworthy, except for the following quote: This puts the exchange rate at around 15,000 to 25,000 Ultima Online gold units to

eGENESIS BRINGS US A TALE IN THE DESERT [Author: myschyf]

So what kind of game is A Tale In The Desert? Well according to the FAQ, which says it better than I ever could, “It’s a radically different massively multiplayer role-playing game. It contains no combat: no monsters, no player-killers, no swords or armor. Your character advances by completing,