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Whoops, apparently Funcom had a wardrobe malfunction when they shipped the game off to be certified: it turns out that the US will be getting the EU Socialist Paradise uncensored version (rated M for lots of immaturity). The Age of Conan forums exploded with joy (we hope it was joy,

What is the best thing about Conan? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of your lawyers. Please note this isn’t a design decision or something we can reverse. It’s a legal (or as good as legal) requirement to sell the game

The articles on mmocitizen.com and the complaint regarding IGE and Brock Pierce refererred to in an earlier post have all been removed from that site. They’re still mirrored on virtuallyblind.com.

Thanks to a very nice request detailed here, the contents of this post have been replaced by a very nice picture of a kitten. You might be able to find the original post that used to be here somewhere on the Internet, I hear that sort of thing happens often.

…in case you weren’t sure, darling, that University of Maryland study quoted in Fox’s “Sexbox” squib isn’t exactly what it was advertised to be. This study didn’t involve thousands of young children. It didn’t even involve “real life experience” or even if they knew the

Julian Dibbell in Wired on the wide world of griefing (including figures all too familiar to loyal readers of this blog such as Prokofy Neva, 4chan, Goonswarm and its parent Something Awful). Asked how some people can find their greatest amusement in pissing off others, ^ban^ gives the question a

Shadowbane says gg, next map plz The Shadowbane Team decided that it would be best for the longevity of the game to reset all server and character data and start from scratch. I can understand why they’re doing this, but… wow. There’s some implications there.