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In cooperation with the Make-A-Wish foundation, Blizzard bumps a kid with a terminal brain tumor up to level 70, clears Black Temple for them, adds a quest written by him, complete with an NPC that has his voice… oh, and gives him a crossbow that shoots fire. Seems appropriate. “I’

In response to the continuing crisis involving community relations: Sanya: That’s it, I’m starting a website. Hey, look, a new blog!

Granado Espada shows us their new “Mandarin Pop Star” class

Two relentless self-promoters manage to get an entire CNN.com story. The academy will accept nominations on its Web site for categories like “Best Virtual World,” “Best Virtual Fashion Designer” and “Most Dynamic Virtual Economy.” The winners will be announced in February and will receive virtual statues at “live” ceremonies

For those following the Tseric saga, he was apparently let go/resigned this week. For those not following the Tseric saga: Tseric was a forum moderator/community person for World of Warcraft. His main job involved gathering feedback from players on the official forums. There are words for jobs like

Michael Zenke interviews the always quotable Paul Barnett of Warhammer Online. EA basically means that we have a ton of money. And we have more resources than we did before. So when Mythic was making it alone, it effectively had a reservoir of cash, and it had a sort of

Rumor mill goes into overdrive. As someone who’s been through rounds of layoffs: if that happened, it’s pretty crappy. As Damion commented in the F13 thread, closing the company down to liquidate outstanding debts and then sending offer letters to the employees left standing is a fairly standard