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Why is NCsoft Austin moving to Seattle? Although some of the restructuring is philosophical, with the company now focusing more intently on “AAA list” titles like Guild Wars and Lineage II, some of the motivation for the decision to move the publishing headquarters from Austin to Seattle was strictly practical.

No, I did not make this up. Someone in our fine, perfectly normal intelligence community was actually retarded enough to try to diagram how uberguilds can plan terror attacks through MMO STRATEGERY. I can totally see where they are coming from. However, I think, as usual, our fine, perfectly competent

Something for everyone today (well, unless you don’t play MMOs with levels and classes…) World of Warcraft: * It’s official: Wrath of the Lich King ships November 13. Well, that gives everyone else two more months! * During a stockholder/analyst call, Blizzard disclosed some large numbers: 11 million subscribers,

Dislike the latest trend in EULAs that ‘force you to read them’ by checking to see if you scroll ALLLLLL the way to the bottom before clicking “Yes, I agree to everything you put in this tiny dialog box, including having no virtual property rights, you can ban me at

Half of the Austin Conference Center houses AGDC this week. The other half houses refugees from Hurricane Ike. Extra Special Bonus Commentary On The Human Condition: Watching people meander on 6th Street (Austin’s pub crawl) wearing official Red Cross issued survival supplies backpacks.

If your comment is “held for moderation”, that means the spam filter thinks it is spam. Most likely I will never see it, so if you want it to be seen drop me an email (sjennings (a) brokentoys.org) and I’ll bump it back into rotation. As a general

How about some Warhammer news not involving Mark Jacobs’ blog? Leave the man alone, he is allowed to blog just like the rest of us! Instead we have Tobold’s blog. Tobold is a guy who blogs about MMOs, in a fairly drama-free fashion. (This last bit differentiates him