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SCIENTISTS TO COMPUTERS : “YUO SUXXORS” [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

Perhaps I’ve spent too many hours of too many days up to my elbows in a computer case to really know how intimidating and confusing a computer can be to the average consumer. I got a small taste of that this past weekend when I purchased a Replay TV

FIND SHADOWBANE A NEW PUBLISHER, WIN A BETA ACCOUNT! [Author: Lum the Mad]

We called Babbage’s customer service department and found out that Shadowbane was “de-listed” from their catalogue at the request of Take Two, which (at the moment) is (still) (officially) Shadowbane’s publisher. When asked if that meant the game was delayed past its projected release date, we were

FFFFFPPPPPPPPTTTTHHHHH YOU DROP DOT.BOMB ON ME! [Author: Lum the Mad]

Yeah, eFront’s still sending out bitchy fake-legal letters (and hey, why don’t we ever get any? Our forums are whiny, foul-mouthed and probably legally actionable too!) but it’s just kind of washing away in the roar of the economy going fwoomf. Hey kids, it’s

IT’S ANARCHY, I TELL YOU! [Author: Lum the Mad]

Lots of news on Anarchy Online lately, here’s some summarizing for those of you not interested in eFront raping sCary’s taxes or something. Gibme.com, which is apparently a Norwegian online gaming mag, cornered Tommy Strand, AO’s lead designer, and got him to fess up to tons

WITHIN MEANS [Author: Lum the Mad]

UGO dead? Good. Took long enough. Blue’s not getting paid and Evil Avatar’s asking for handouts? Well, what did you expect to happen? eFront’s run by evil bastards? No shit? Sucks to be Lowtax. Those logs are really funny, though. Michael Wolff told the WashPost that he

HOW TO DESTROY YOUR BUSINESS THROUGH THE MAGICAL WORLD OF FILE SHARING [Author: Lum the Mad]

Brief timeline: Thursday: Someone posts links of about 15 MB of Sam Jain’s ICQ conversations with his employees to an anonymous Angelfire site. Sam Jain is the CEO of eFront, a “new media” company that hosts websites and sells ad banner space on them, such as Something Awful and

A MAGIC UPDATE [8:10:5:4] [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

Magic Weapons and Armor Identification Mar 9 2001 11:53AM CST Magic weapons and armor will display descriptions in brackets once the item is identified, instead of the current numerical values. For example, if you identified an indestructible surpassingly accurate broadsword of force, the system would display it as: magic