Workin' In A Gold Mine, Goin' Down Down, Working In A Gold Mine, Whew About To Slip Down Courtesy of @juliandibbell, the financials for a typical Eastern European WoW gold factory.
Massive Cutbacks At SOE: Three Studios Closed, Huge Layoffs Elsewhere The axe fell at the house Firiona Vie built today, as rum0rs have spread (many of which I can confirm anecdotally) that their Seattle studio (where the perpetually delayed The Agency title was in development) as well as their recently acquired collectible card gaming studios in Tuscon and Denver, have
EA Strikes Back At People Remaking A Twenty-Six Year Old Game They Gave Away Fourteen Years Ago The various Ultima 4 (yes, the one made in 1985, before many of you were born) remakes floating around the web were hit by EA cease and desist letters this week despite EA, um, giving the game away for free. The fact that EA seems to have no problem with
World Of Canada Declares War On World Of Warcraft, Users Caught In Very, Very Slow Crossfire As part of Rogers (Canada's largest cable ISP) essentially declaring war on Bittorrent, Canadian World of Warcraft players discovered they weren't immune, as it was discovered this weekend through an audit by Canada's telecom regulator that Rogers classified the game they were playing as
Let's Learn About Magic Genitalia From Bioware The comments are actually a lot funnier than the story.
Blizzard To Successfully Monetize Guild Drama Now your ENTIRE GUILD can individually pay $25 to collectively pack up and move to another server where you'll no longer have to look at THAT STUPID BASTARD/BITCH/TAMPERPROOF FOOD PRODUCT that totally destroyed your guild by hitting on your raid leader/whining about loot distribution/wouldn&
WTB WoW GM From the Orange County Craigslist comes this: I got my WoW account banned yesterday during the archaeology bot ban wave. I wasn't a gold farmer or seller, never bought gold. I just botted archaeology because it's a boring profession. I'm looking for a WoW