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Apparently the latest frontier in gold spamming in WoW involves gnomes falling from the sky. I am really not making this up. I ask that any player that witnesses these to report them strait away. If you feel so inclined, you can also post the realm name, and zone here

Pig at Wandering Goblin tries to connect the dots as to where, oh where our favorite gold sellers have gone. This time, with leaked background paperwork! Affinity appears to be vomiting up disinformation like a bunch of outrageously dissipate fraternity boys. The company is involved in gold-selling. They are

As seen on mmodig, the Vancouver PD apparently has nothing to do. The Vancouver police officers involved in the recruitment on Second Life have their own avatars, or Second Life persona, dressed in a specially designed VPD uniform, badge, belt and radio. They’re also trained in the other-world

It must be a fairly good month for MMO patches, because all the dramabombs lately are about external sites; most of them this past week centered around Affinity’s purchase of Wowhead. Razorwire posted a couple of days an internal Affinity email that made the rounds of blog samizdat: namely,

The collective Slashdot hivemind shoots some questions at Sparter, one of the newer RMT players. I’m concerned that this platform is devoted to promoting activity that the largest game (WoW) explicitly forbids. How do you plan to handle the fact that the entire premise of your site is one

The often irritating Mike Schramm of WoWInsider has an interview up with the leads of Affinity and Wowhead regarding the latter’s recent purchase by the former. WI: But how long have Affinity and IGE been different businesses? JM: Springtime. Since the spring. WI: A few months ago? JM: I

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