• WoW Premium Servers

    Updated: 2010-05-31 22:30:51
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  • Hyperspace Beacon: Return of the Jedi

    Updated: 2010-05-31 22:00:00
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  • Know your lore: Naga Sadow

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:06:00
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  • One Shots: A little rest, relaxation, and ear rubbing

    Updated: 2010-05-31 20:00:00
    : , , Follow MassiveBlips on Twitter Blips SuperBlipsBros SimBlips GamerBlips XboxBlips MaximumITBlips More Entertainment ShowHype MovieBlips TVBlips more . Games GamerBlips XboxBlips WoWBlips more . Music MusicBlips HipHopBlips RevolverBlips more . Sports BallHype FootballBlips MMABlips more . Technology TechBlips GadgetBlips PCHardwareBlips more . MassiveBlips The Web's most popular MMO news , videos , and . blogs Who are we Log In Join MassiveBlips All World of Warcraft Cataclysm Blizzard Star Wars : The Old Republic More Submit a Story Submit a Story 1 Votes Facebook Twitter StumbleUpon Email topics : Star Trek Online Cryptic vote down undo vote up flag massively.com 4 hours ago One Shots : A little rest , relaxation , and ear rubbing Here in the states we're celebrating Memorial Day a

  • No Point to MMOs?

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:57:54
    I got a chuckle out of this : Bioware designer and writing director Daniel Erickson told CVG that the Mass Effect studio had been disappointed by the “lack of fun” in other MMO titles on the market. He said: “In the early days when they first announced that there were .. — full article at commonsensegamer.com

  • Tyrannis launch oversight destroys starbase market

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:00:00
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  • South Korea Expands Aid for Internet Addiction

    Updated: 2010-05-30 02:00:00
    CHOE SANG-HUN Published: May 28, 2010 — full article at nytimes.com

  • Character progression: Why SW:TOR is DOA

    Updated: 2010-05-26 06:10:00
    The style and impact of character progression is an issue that every MMO must consider, and it’s an issue that far too often is misunderstood by many players (and devs for that matter). The concept of ‘the grind’ is heavily related here, and while many have negative feelings towards it, it .. — full article at syncaine.wordpress.com

  • Rebalancing of mid-level ranges - weapon dice and mob hp

    Updated: 2010-05-19 18:31:01
    While playing Aardwolf as a new user things move along quite nicely until around level 70 or so, at which point there starts to be a big slowdown. After looking at the game balance in this level range, we have made a few changes. Combined with the equipment finding commands added during the last update, [...]

  • World of Warcraft Account Login

    Updated: 2010-05-19 04:59:42
    Battle.net E-mail Address Password Log In Forgot your account password ? Don't have an account yet? Sign up now ! To view this page in another language: Deutsch | English (US) | English (EU) | Espa ol (AL) | Espa ol (EU) | Fran ais | Русский | 한국어 For security reasons, close your web browser .. — full article at us.wowarmory.com

  • Remote Auction House: Beta Updates

    Updated: 2010-05-19 04:59:42
    The Remote Auction House is a new feature, currently undergoing beta testing, that allows players to log in to the Armory and browse any Auction House that the characters on their World of Warcraft account have access to. Once beta testing is complete and the Remote Auction House is live, .. — full article at wowarmory.com

  • Equipment Searching based on Compare Scores

    Updated: 2010-05-13 19:23:15
    Building on the equipment scoring and compare options added recently, there is another new command called ‘eqsearch‘ that can be used to check if there are equipment upgrades available in open clan halls. Eqsearch works like compare, but is based on a flagged list of items in the game that are considered ’searchable’. The searchable item [...]

  • ICC 10 PUG Delight 18-04-2010 – A World of Warcraft Story 12

    Updated: 2010-04-18 03:05:05
    Image by aha42 via Flickr Joined a geared PUG run early in the morning, ironically we have waited

  • Mud client summary - new ‘clients’ command.

    Updated: 2010-04-13 16:51:21
    A new command was added to Aardwolf MUD today that shows a summary of connections sorted by MUD client. Client is determined using the telnet ‘ttype’ option. Here’s a screenshot of the summary at time of writing: Most of the clients in the ‘unidentified’ category are returning NULL. From asking the players connected, this seems to be [...]

  • One year with Second Life Insider

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:46
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web One year with Second Life Insider Posted Nov 2nd 2007 4:00AM by Tateru Nino Filed under : News SL Insider Business Mixed Reality MMO Watch Well , what a ride it has been . This is my 365th day with Second Life Insider . A whole year of writing about Second Life and things related to it . Digging up news tidbits and trying to generally provide you all with useful content and news . In the last year , I've produced 1,120 posts a total of 367,657 words . We've all been working hard to bring you great stuff , and it's great to see how you've all responded . Journalists , corporates and media agencies read Second

  • Yesterday's Money: 1st November

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:45
    : Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Yesterday's Money : 1st November Posted Nov 2nd 2007 3:02AM by Eloise Pasteur Yesterday in Second Life we : Spent US$1,372,000 at an exchange rate of L$268.7 to US$1 Exchanged US$274,000 at an average of US$11,400.0 per hour . Market buys were US$197,000 Market sales were US$75,000 Limit-limit buys were US$1,400 The busiest time was at 11am when about US$16,000 was exchanged . The quietest time was 3am when about US$6,000 was exchanged . : Tags economy LindeX Second-Life transactions Permalink Email this Linking Blogs Comments 4 Reader Comments Page 1 1. Hi . i have some 190.07 eur voip ukash vouchers and

  • Today in Second Life - Thursday 1 November, 2007

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:45
    , Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Today in Second Life Thursday 1 November , 2007 Posted Nov 2nd 2007 2:59AM by Tateru Nino Filed under : Odds and Ends Today in Second Life we : had 27,981 new signups bringing us to 10,614,271 signups total . A peak concurrency of 51,914 at 2:25PM , and a minimum concurrency of 26,808 at 1:15AM . Median concurrency for the day was 39,933. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.58 lower is better Yes , huge changes are afoot at Second Life Insider Full details in one hour . A short notice rolling restart of the grid A new viewer release candidate RC2 Havok 4 and the beta grid are back up . again : Tags

  • New Second Life viewer release candidate

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:45
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web New Second Life viewer release candidate Posted Nov 1st 2007 11:00PM by Tateru Nino Filed under : News Updates Linden Lab has released a new Second Life viewer release candidate , specifically , 1.18.4(RC2 This fixes a number of issues with since the last release . There's a list of those changes below the . fold The viewer is available from the optional downloads page as usual and we suspect that this one might just be a little more plausible as a release candidate than the last one Since the last release , the following changes have been : made Fixed several UI elements Fixed new group not appearing in group

  • Short notice rolling restart

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:44
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Short notice rolling restart Posted Nov 1st 2007 5:58PM by Eloise Pasteur Filed under : Updates According to the official blog there's a rolling restart underway . Details are sketchy , but when they're this poorly announced they usually mean it's an exploit fix and we won't get a lot of additional details , although it is also setting up for the new search , fixing sale auction IDs and most interesting allowing inventory databases to switched in and out without booting . everyone The restart is running North to South , so jump North if you get caught by it . It started at 2:17pm and will run until about . 6pm

  • I'm going to miss Second Life Insider

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:44
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web I'm going to miss Second Life Insider Posted Nov 1st 2007 4:18PM by Moo Money Filed under : News SL Insider Business I'd been a reader of Second Life Insider for quite some time when I heard that Akela Talamasca was looking for me . I couldn't quite understand why he'd want ME to write for this blog . I'm still not sure what he saw in me , but now I feel like I'm part of the . family These last nine months have been so enriching for me , but like Akela it's time to move on . I promised myself that I wouldn't cry , but I'm just so sad to go . I wish I could tell you more , but that's for another post . For now ,

  • Hello???

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:44
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Hello Posted Nov 1st 2007 9:59PM by Aimee Weber Filed under : Op Ed Hello Akela Moo Where did everybody go tries door Is anybody in there HELLLOOOOO Come on guys , this isn't funny anymore I'm cold and there are wolves after me This is like that episode of Star Trek where everybody kept disappearing and only Picard noticed it was happening because everybody else thought the missing people had never even existed in the first place . And that kept happening until Picard was the only one left and it turned out he was just trapped in some shrinking universe-type thing and when he himself disappeared he was back

  • Yesterday's Money: 31st October

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:43
    : Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Yesterday's Money : 31st October Posted Nov 1st 2007 3:02AM by Eloise Pasteur Filed under : Linden Dollars Business Yesterday in Second Life we : Spent US$1,284,000 at an exchange rate of L$266.4 to US$1 Exchanged US$257,000 at an average of US$10,700.0 per hour . Market buys were US$173,000 Market sales were US$84,000 Limit-limit buys were US$200 The busiest time was at 11am when about US$26,000 was exchanged . The quietest time was 11pm when about US$5,000 was exchanged . : Tags economy LindeX Second-Life transactions Permalink Email this Linking Blogs Comments 0 General Arts and Culture 70 Gridbugs 207

  • Today in Second Life - Wednesday 31 October, 2007

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:43
    , Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Today in Second Life Wednesday 31 October , 2007 Posted Nov 1st 2007 2:59AM by Tateru Nino Filed under : Odds and Ends Today in Second Life we : had 32,528 new signups bringing us to 10,585,610 signups total . A peak concurrency of 50,872 at 3:30PM , and a minimum concurrency of 27,105 at 1:05AM . Median concurrency for the day was 39,968. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.84 lower is better Famed teen resident Katharine Berry turns her back on Second Life Akela rounds up some of the best Halloween Haunts in Second Life , while Moo brings you an excellent list of Halloween freebies and cheapies It

  • Hire some journos!

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:43
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Hire some journos Posted Nov 1st 2007 2:30PM by Tateru Nino Filed under : Op Ed If Linden Lab couldn't find any evidence of wrongdoing at Wonderland perhaps they need to hire some journalists to investigate incidents like this . It seems that most everyone else found something broadly offensive in the place , and well , the journalists apparently found the worst sort of offense in next to no time Linden Lab has apparently shut Wonderland down now we don't know if they found evidence of wrongdoing themselves , or if it is a reflexive reaction to the mainstream media putting the story in front of about 150

  • Farewell, Second Life Insider

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:43
    , Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Farewell , Second Life Insider Posted Nov 1st 2007 1:54PM by Akela Talamasca Filed under : News SL Insider Business Those of you who follow me on Twitter have heard me refer to this announcement : I will no longer be writing for SLI . As Lead Blogger , and one of the remaining founding members along with Aimee I've found writing for you all to be one of the most rewarding experiences I could have asked for . I've seen amazing things , met wonderful people , and generally had the time of my virtual life Now I'm moving . on This is not to say you've heard the last of me , though some of you will be sorry to

  • A new year dawns

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:43
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web A new year dawns Posted Nov 1st 2007 3:14PM by Eloise Pasteur Filed under : SL Insider Business Resident Snapshot If I were a pagan , this would be the first day of the new year . Although it's not a description I'd use , I've known more than enough over the years , and sometimes that feeling of looking forward now in relative sobriety rather at the more normal new year which is also a RL friends birthday and rarely sober if I'm healthy feels . right Somehow I think this year to come will be a year of massive changes . Looking back , a year ago I wasn't writing , now I find things to write about in SL most days

  • slscout.com: A New Social Networking Site for SL Residents

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:42
    : Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web slscout.com : A New Social Networking Site for SL Residents Posted Oct 31st 2007 7:09PM by Akela Talamasca Filed under : News slscout.com is the latest SL-focused social networking site , and it's got all the right elements : embedded videos , forums , etc . Even better , they're holding a contest right now wherein users can post their favorite photos , have them rated by other users , and possibly win the First Prize of 25,000L Join up today Thanks , Johnvan : Tags second-life slscout social-networking Permalink Email this Linking Blogs Comments 5 Read Reader Comments Page 1 1. Seems like ning-based

  • Encoding video can be scary, but it doesn't have to be

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:42
    , Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Encoding video can be scary , but it doesn't have to be Posted Oct 31st 2007 7:24PM by Moo Money Filed under : How-To Machinima While it's Halloween and we're embracing our fears , I'd like to chat about encoding video . When you look at all the setting choices that you have , it can be downright intimidating . I recently had the chance to speak with the wonderful Machinimist extraordinaire , Paul Marino about this very topic and he set me . straight There are a couple of programs that you can use to encode SL friendly Machinima . The first being Quicktime Pro It runs roughly 30 USD and gives you some quick

  • 'Second Life for Teens', but Without Second Life

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:41
    , Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Second Life for Teens' , but Without Second Life Posted Oct 31st 2007 6:34PM by Akela Talamasca Filed under : News Odds and Ends This is your moment of WTF Dorling Kindersley who many of you may know through their wonderful Eyewitness Series of illustrated reference books , have created a new game in Habbo Hotel to promote a new Christmas book called Do Not Open Apparently it's going well , attracting over 1,000 players in its first week . However , DK is calling this approach the Second Life For Teens model' but they're not using Second Life to do it Couldn't they have called it the Virtual Worlds For Teens

  • Nexeus Fatale: DJ For a Cause

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:41
    : Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Nexeus Fatale : DJ For a Cause Posted Oct 31st 2007 6:53PM by Akela Talamasca Filed under : News Events Odds and Ends Arts and Culture Live Performance Nexeus Fatale , DJ Extraordinaire , has hit upon a great way to give back to the community . His DJ For a Cause' mission is to donate his DJ services to anyone , individual or organization , who fits the requirements : Their event must be philanthropic in nature such as fund raising and has to embody the Holiday theme of giving to . others I see this as a great way to promote SL's philanthropic nature , which is embodied in its residents . These days , most of

  • Good Summary of Virtual Worlds Forum Europe

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:41
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Good Summary of Virtual Worlds Forum Europe Posted Oct 31st 2007 6:02PM by Akela Talamasca Filed under : Events Odds and Ends Tech Digest does a good job here of highlighting 20 trends gleaned from their recent trip to the Virtual Worlds Forum Europe , and they go like : this 1. Shedloads of virtual worlds will be launched in 2008 2. Teen-focused virtual worlds are huge 3. Brands still get it wrong 4. There's a problem with communication 5. There will be big growth in corporate use of virtual worlds and 15 more . It would be boorish and redundant to list all twenty here , even without explanation . You'll

  • Booch is no mooch

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:41
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Booch is no mooch Posted Oct 31st 2007 6:19PM by Akela Talamasca Filed under : Odds and Ends Grady Booch might not be a household name , but he's the Chief Scientist for IBM's Rational Software Corp . unit . In a recent interview with Computerworld , Booch has held forth on a number of topics , including his take on SL . His approach to explaining the value of SL to himself is : practical IBM has 50 or so islands that we own in Second Life We've derived business value by using it internally . I can look at the lectures I have done and say , I have saved IBM money . Certainly the company saves huge costs on

  • Can we call them SLphones?

    Updated: 2010-04-11 23:34:40
    Engadget for the iPhone : download the app now AOL My AOL Mail Make AOL My HomePage GameDaily AOL Games Joystiq Xbox360 Fanboy Wii Fanboy Engadget PS3 Fanboy Second Life Insider Web Can we call them SLphones Posted Oct 31st 2007 5:50PM by Akela Talamasca Filed under : News This Tech Digest story has it that TokyoZERO , in a partnership with a company calling itself Sun though not Sun Microsystems , as that's not their logo are apparently working on a way to get SL on your cellphone . Or perhaps not you , but the Japanese . Now , we've been on this before Is this any different For that matter , has anyone tried this other service , and does it work I can't imagine shoehorning all of SL's features into a cellphone , no matter how advanced . There are some things that just need a mouse and

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