WoW PTR bug report: Holy Shock does zero damage and healing

According to player Raithis over at the World of Warcraft Forums, the Paladin's Holy Shock spell at the PTR is experiencing bugs to its damage and heal effects.Holy Shock, at least when it's working properly, will provide its caster with the ability to hit its intended enemy with direct damage!

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WoW forums: new heroic badge items unfair for hard working p

Some people on the World of Warcraft forums are getting a little down when they noticed that some of the new heroic badge loot items that you can trade in for in the latest 2.4 PTR of the game.Poster Nextdooramy noted that the new Tempest of Chaos' spell damage reaches into obscenely high numbers (247 to be exact)

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Dungeons & Dragons Online new songs added to OST

With the month of February already in full swing, Turbine, Inc. has decided celebrate its month-long, second year anniversary for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach by releasing five more tracks for the Official Soundtrack of the game.This bumps up the total number of songs in the soundtrack to ten so far,

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Cryptic Studios explains why it chose the Champions franchis

Not surprisingly, it all began with an pen-and-paper RPG entitled Champions. It may have been a little thing back then, but little things usually find their way into bigger things. In Cryptic Studios' case, the influences of Champions on City of Heroes and the upcoming MMORPG

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Warhammer Online Europe sends beta invites to newsletter sub

It should be remembered that EA Mythic has announced through Community Relations Director James Nichols that there are plans to send out more beta invites to the upcoming MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

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GDC 08: Brenda Brathwaite supports sex in video games

Video game industry veterans and aspiring game developers weren't the only ones present at the Game Developers Conference 2008. The founder of the International Game Developers Association's Sex special interest group, Brenda Brathwaite, was also there for her Hentai, Hardcore, and Hotties talk to discuss about developers

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SOE, Vivox ready voice communication tools for MMORPG player

While voice chat is nifty, it also brings its own concerns with it (bandwidth issues, for instance). Add that to a host of features that MMORPG players wish they had, such as the ability to mask one's own voice, and it seems you've got a pretty tall order..

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Pirates of the Burning Sea devlog: on patch 1.2 and the new

It seems a lot of new things are brewing over at Flying Lab Software these days. Not only does the company have a new producer and a new client and tools programmer in the persons of Joe Ludwig and John Zipperer, respectively, but a new content patch - patch 1.2 - is in the works for Pirates of the Burning Sea

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Warhammer Online release date still on track

Fans following the release of EA Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning don't have to worry about another delay for the fantasy MMO title. According to the game's publishers, the game is still very much on course and will be sure to go live later this year.

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This month s Warhammer Online Beta Diary: Dwarf love

We were given a glimpse into the character of the Vampire Lord, Neborhest, but what about his foes, the Dwarven race? In this month's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Beta Journal by EA Mythic, a beta tester relates unexpected, newfound love towards the diminutive race.

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Sony Online Entertainment looking for interns

It's a good time for those who are seeking to break into the gaming industry. If you're a student looking for an intern position in a prestigious gaming company, then look no further. Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is currently looking for interns to work for their team

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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and elves on drugs

EA Mythic is definitely putting in a lot of passion into the development of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning - no secrets there for those who've been keeping tabs on this MMORPG.

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World of Warcraft forum: Peacekeeper Jadaar bug

If you're an active player of Blizzard's World of Warcraft, there's a high chance that you guys have encountered a bug or two. For Nahd from The Underbog realm, she posted her own experience. She commented that Peacekeeper Jadaar, who is currently in the World's End Tavern, is still talking about Griftah being exiled, but Griftah is back.

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World of Warcraft: Patch 2.4 is bigger than ever... Literall

It's not the size, it's how you use it. Apparently, Patch 2.4 in World of Warcraft is laced with what WoW Insider has dubbed the Elixir of Giant Growth.Weaponry in Patch 2.4 have been enlarged to almost double its size. While the reasons for this is unclear, the intimidating effect of the enlarged weaponry is pretty cool.

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WoW PTR news: Brutallus hotfixed for less HP, more damage

The title says it all, improved hardness heh.

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Swift White Hawkstrider to arrive in World of Warcraft patch

Hawkstriders are cool, mostly because they serve as the World of Warcraft equivalent to the chocobo. Of course, it'd be even cooler if the hawkstrider came in additional color schemes, right? Well, once 2.4 goes live, Blizzard will let you go after another extra-special hawkstrider mount:

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World of Warcraft: Patch 2.4 will improve Battlegroup queues

World of Warcraft gamer Artemis expressed some disappointment in the WoW forums, saying that the battlegroup queues were taking too long.

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EVE Online: Fifth Alliance Tournament preparations

CCP Games is currently putting all pilots on red alert status as they get set to organize this year's PvP Alliance Tournament for the futuristic Sci-Fi MMO game EVE Online.With the success of last year's Alliance Tournament, the developers and GMs are looking forward to the new PvP tournament.

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Blizzard invites WoW players to submit fanarts; Lady Vashj f

Sure, World of Warcraft players have hunted her down, but why not simply draw fanart of her for a change? That's what Cyril Roland did for Lady Vashj, and now Blizzard blue poster Vaneras has honored the artist by calling attention to the work of art on the European WoW forums.

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Blizzard on new format details of Global WoW Arena Tournamen

Sometimes it's necessary to put a new spin on something tried-and-true. That's what Blizzard plans to do with the format for the Global World of Warcraft Arena Tournament.

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World of Warcraft Forum: replacing the backpack?

If you think that the current backpacks being used in World of Warcraft is simply lacking, you're not the only one concerned with it. Dunk from the Uther realm posted his concern and wondered if there's a possibility that the backpacks currently being used could be replaced with a bag with a higher capacity.

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WoW Forums: Free character transfers until February 20

Having trouble trying to make your way around in your overpopulated realm? Blizzard blue-texter Bornakk visited the World of Warcraft Forums earlier to announce that devs will be implementing another round of free character transfers for today, starting at 12:00 p.m.

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World of Warcraft Forum - February 12's realm issues

It was only recently that players of Blizzard's World of Warcraft encountered one specific glitch with the game: they couldn't log in to the game itself. Good thing blue poster Bornak was there to address the concerns.In his post, he was able to give an update on the status of the situation.

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Blizzard: progressive class changes and other 2.4 updates

It was previously mentioned that Blizzard will slowly be implementing progressive changes into the current 2.4.0 patch of World of Warcraft. However, many of the posters on the WoW forums have spoken up demanding that Blizzard show them the goods.Fortunately, Blizzard Poster Nethaera has addressed some of the concerns voiced out on the forums.

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WoW 2.4 news: Sunwell Isle map pieced together, PTR news

Over on the World of Warcraft Livejournal community, bigredpimp has put up some interesting information for everyone to drool over, and it comes in the form of new maps. Specifically, he's used the files from Blizzard's WoW 2.4 patch to piece together a map of Sunwell Isle...

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Analyst: Activision/Vivendi potential earnings of USD 1.38 B

Citigroup analyst Brent Thrill has predicted a bright future if the Activision/Vivendi merger pushes through. Thrill has estimated that the merged company has the potential of earning as much as US 1.39 billion in 2009, a full 15 ahead of guidance figures.

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2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: ticket and event detai

Blizzcon isn't the only Blizzard event where you can catch the latest from the studio that brought us the Warcraft and Starcraft games. Blizzard has just announced that tickets will soon be available for the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational.This year marks the fourth Worldwide Invitational.

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World of Warcraft: known issues with Patch 2.4

The patch notes for World of Warcraft's PTR 2.4 were released a few days ago, but let's not forget the patch is still under development. As with any patch still under development, there are still a few bugs to squash out of the system.Blizzard poster Hortus recently released a list of known bugs for Patch 2.4, involving bugs in the User Interface.

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World of Warcraft Forum: reporting bugs on the game

If you want to make the gaming experience better in World of Warcraft, you can actually help by reporting the bugs you guys encounter while playing the MMORPG. With respect to bugs on the game's graphics, Blizzard blue poster Tigerclaw listed down the guidelines that can be utilized when reporting on these bugs.

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Blizzard investigating lag issues in World of Warcraft Battl

There have been reports that the latency in Blizzard's World of Warcraft Reckoning and Cyclone cross-realm battleground servers is experiencing problems. Players waiting to get into Alterac Valley have given word that they've been waiting for over five minutes to get into a game

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Blizzard explains more changes to come in WoW patch 2.4

After Blizzard's release of the 2.4.0 PTR for World of Warcraft, the general cry on everyone's lips was: "That's it?" Many players on the WoW forums have been complaining that the list of changes released in the latest patch falls surprisingly short of the expected number everybody has been looking forward to over the past few months.

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Blizzard: Resilience to remain in Wrath of the Lich King

That's right no nurf coming for pvp gear!

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Lord of The Rings online Hosting.

Ejeet Networks roll's out the carpet to lord of the rings online gamers allowing them to enter the realm of state of the art guild hosting.

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Wrath of The Lich King Beta Club - Image's leaked

The winners of Ejeet Networks Halloween Horrors package have been released!The winners have obtained CD KEYS for blizzards beta club from dell XPS!

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Wrath of The Lich King Beta Club - Image Leak

Ejeet Networks, from the site that had the first wrath of the lich king alpha leak pictures.They are now proud to announce that they have obtained exclusive dell XPS beta club cards,they provide images and more, and appearantly some of their lucky customers are getting in the beta.

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Blizzard Entertainment: BlizzCast Episode 2 coming soon with

If you thoroughly enjoyed listening in on Blizzard Entertainment's very first BlizzCast from last month, then you may want to hear this news out.The company has announced that they've finished taping Episode two of the podcast series, and that it should be out within the next couple of days.

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World of Warcraft Patch 2.4: Feral Bear form improvements

We know there's loads of stuff in store for us in World of Warcraft's Patch 2.4, unfortunately we have to wait until Blizzard releases the official patch notes. For now, we have to content ourselves with whatever we can get.This new info comes from Blizzard poster Bornakk in reply to gamer Morrie.

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