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BANNING AND HACKING FOR GREAT JUSTICE [Author: Eldin]

Azile, from the Darktide News Network, sent an e-mail this week alerting me to the presence of a third party program that allowed users to levitate and avoid critical hits, among other features. Azile posted a warning that he had no experience with the program and any usage of

THIRD DAWN SNUCK OUT DOOR WHILE NO ONE WAS LOOKING, SPRITED OFF TO ELOPE WITH BALDUR’S GATE EXPANSION [Author: Lum the Mad]

Coming as a surprise to, well, pretty much everyone, David Swofford, OSI’s PR guy, told GoneGold the following: Just a heads up that UO: Third Dawn has gone gold and will be shipping to retailers on March 27. Let me know if you have any other questions. Web site

DEATH RATTLE OF THE NET, PART 47,322 [Author: Lum the Mad]

Today’s daily deathwatch infobits: * Fatbabies is repeating a rumor that layoffs are coming to Gamespy and their affiliate program is being axed. That would reduce the number of successful web networks to, um, are we in negative numbers now? * Evil Avatar joined the For the love of God, please

MACKS MOCK MAKERS MARKS [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

Posted by Melantus at UO.com: The Live team has been talking some more with our language experts regarding the changes being made to localized text. It is important to understand that there are substantial differences in the way languages are structured, that make \’e2\’80\’9cone size fits all\

MAKINGS OF BREASTPLATE MANY GOOD CRAFTED OF RAISTLIN [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

Localization. Melantus and Calandryll have done their mousketeer best to explain what they mean by that word, and unfortunately the explanation has been no less confusing to some. According to Melantus, what they mean by Localization is creating a game that is as easily accessible for our customers around the

UGO AFFILIATE: “NO ONE IS GETTING PAID. NO ONE.” [Author: Lum the Mad]

Here’s what (s)he had to say. Last November, UGO negotiated for more venture capital. They had announced that they had recieved $10 million. This was true. The problem was, they had asked for – and needed – $23 million to stay afloat. The remainder was contingent on stopping UGO’s

TICK TICK TICK [Author: Lum the Mad]

Update: Blue isn’t getting paid either. And he’s UGO’s biggest affiliate. Is UGO paying ANYONE? Sorry for those of you sick of these “the Internet is collapsing” stories, but, well, in the gaming part anyway, the Net really is sort of collapsing. For those of you with