Feb 17, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Registrations have opened for World of Warcraft players who wish to compete in the 2009 Arena Tournaments.
Blizzard is awarding over $200,000 in cash prizes to the players who come out on top, along with titles and an exclusive in-game pet.
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Feb 12, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Jeffrey Kaplan, lead game designer, responsible for world design in Blizzards' popular MMO World of WarCraft just announced that he is moving away from development within World of Warcraft to be able to work full-time on Blizzard's new, unannounced MMO.
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Feb 9, 2009
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WoW Insider writes: "We've received an interesting report on the WoW Insider Tip Line today. Two large World of Warcraft hacking and account trading websites, Markee Dragon and MMOwned, have been shut down.
Attempts to reach the sites prove unsuccessful.
This is a good thing for everyone that wants to have a more legitimate gameplay experience in WoW, as both of these sites actively encouraged people to exploit bugs, break the ToS, and do all other sorts of tom-foolery that destroyed the game for legitimate players."
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Feb 7, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Following stories this week that World of Warcraft was being deemed 'illegal' in Australia due to a classification loop-hole. Blizzard sent IncGamers an official statement highlighting that WoW has always been legal in Australia.
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Feb 6, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

The third and final part of Blizzard's updates on upcoming class changes in the next major content patch to hit World of Warcraft has been released.
The remaining classes, Mages, Death Knights, Hunters and Paladins have all received news on what is to become of them, and there are some shockers in there, try this one for size:
Consumable ammo has been removed from the game. Hunters rejoice - you have your bag space back!
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Feb 5, 2009
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Fudzilla writes, "Games developers push the barriers.
Games developers are risking huge fines by trying to get around games Aussie censorship rules by claiming their games are "online only".
This is because the games industry believes there is a legal loophole exempting online games that don't have a single player component from classification requirements."
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Feb 5, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Blizzard have revealed the next lot of proposed changes to hit classes in World of Warcraft when patch 3.1 hits servers.
This time it's Warlocks, Warriors and Druids who find out what will be affected in the alterations.
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Feb 5, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

After hinting recently that World of Warcraft class changes for Patch 3.1 would be revealed soon, Blizzard went and posted details for the Rogue, Priest and Shaman.
Patch 3.1 is expected to be released before the summer.
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Feb 3, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

A news report by NBC Bay Area has caught the attention of the World of Warcraft community recently.
They set out to show how many gamers are part of a "secret society, complete with their own language". To prove this, they interviewed a guy who claims to be "ranked in the top 10 out of 12 million people who play WoW". Turns out he's not so fluent.
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Feb 2, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

BeefJack writes, "While the global economic apocalypse has most of us either watching our backs at work or flinging ourselves out the windows of where we used to work, online game developers in Asia are seeing a new source of revenue: the unemployed.
It makes sense, actually. When you aren't working, you have a lot more time on your hands. And why spend it updating your C.V. when you could just as easily get in a guild raid or sixteen? You know, do something productive..."
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Feb 2, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

World of Warcraft player Jason Babler has put his creative skills to use and sculpted an incredibly detailed model of the banished big time bad guy, Illidan Stormrage.
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Feb 1, 2009
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Ars Technica writes, "Glider, a popular WoW bot, took another hit on Wednesday as a federal judge ruled that the product went beyond copyright infringement to being a circumvention device under the DMCA. The decision raises serious questions about the legal status of interoperability and competition in the software industry.
Blizzard notched another victory in its legal campaign against World of Warcraft bots when a judge on Wednesday ruled that a leading bot violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. MDY Industries LLC, the firm that develops and sells the Glider bot, already suffered a major setback last summer when the judge granted Blizzard summary judgment on several key issues. This week's decision deals with the issues the judge believed could not be decided until the conclusion of this month's trial. The judge ruled that Glider violated the DMCA's ban on "circumvention devices," and he also found that MDY's founder, Michael Donnelly, was personally liable for the actions of his firm."
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Jan 30, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

According to Dutch university graduate Theo Zijderveld, WoW could be considered a religion as it meets the four dimensions required to constitute one by French sociologist Danil Hervieu-Lger's: Community, ethics, culture and emotion.
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Jan 29, 2009
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Sideshow Collectibles is offering a $100 discount on the World of Warcraft Diorama if it wins their poll. The discount would be valid exclusively on Friday, January 30th.
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Jan 23, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

It's been months since there was any news on Blizzard's planned live action Warcraft movie, so fans may be forgiven for thinking the project had been put on hold.
However, a community manager confirmed yesterday that the project is still full steam ahead.
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Jan 22, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

A new website service has ignited controversy among gamers with its claims to provide compensation for World of Warcraft players who experience problems with the game. The site will apparently offer payments for laggy gameplay, system outages and waiting queues.
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Jan 22, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

World of Warcraft's patch 3.0.8 went live on Tuesday morning but to the disappointment of players, all of the shiny new improvements and additions have been overshadowed by dozens of new bugs.
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Jan 21, 2009
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RedBedlam's Kerry Fraser-Robinson has said that all online games should strongly consider allowing RMT.
"People will always find the path of least resistance, if you stop them buying your gold then they'll buy that gold from somebody else who is gold farming."
The maker of the market leading MMORPG World of Warcraft, Blizzard, has always been opposed to RMT, but is it time to admit that they will never stop the practice of gold selling?
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Jan 17, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

TTH: "For a temporary time, Blizzard will be offering free server transfers for extra World of Warcraft servers to help ease their overpopulation and aid in balancing the fight between Horde and Alliance. The recent server additions cover PvE and RP servers. This compliments the recent free PvP server transfers offered."
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Jan 9, 2009
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Welcome to the very first MMO Report. This week on the report TGR talks about Age of Conan and EverQuest server mergers, soloing in Lord of the Rings Online to level 20, server lag fixes for World of Warcraft zones, and the announcement of a new Eve Online expansion.
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