andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Want to hear something a little wild? Actress Winona Ryder and alternative group Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore have been subpoenaed in a video gamer’s lawsuit against Activision Blizzard and its World Of Warcraft game, reports CHARTattack. A gamer from San Francisco is suing the company for $1 million U.S. in damages. He is particularly upset with the [...]
UNOFFICIAL THREESPEECH : 100% Unofficial Sony... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Erik Estavillo is suing Activision Blizzard over World of Warcraft. Erik Estavillo is also a funny guy. That or he's crazy. It could go either way. Estavillo claims the company "continues to maintain a harmful virtual environment to many of its customers by forcing them to follow [World of Warcraft's] sneaky and deceitful practices". And what could those "sneaky and deceitful practices"...
Massively (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Filed under: Fantasy , Super-hero , Dungeons and Dragons Online , EverQuest , Guild Wars , Events, in-game , News items , War , Free-to-play , Browser , Earth Eternal , Champions Online , Dragonica Online It's that time of year again -- Thanksgiving is tomorrow and all things turkey related have invaded the MMO world: hunting turkeys, eating turkeys, exchanging turkey parts for rewards, wielding turkey...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Slicing Up Eyeballs : Depeche Mode songwriter Martin L. Gore reportedly has been subpoenaed by a litigious video gamer who’s suing the makers of the online behemoth “World of Warcraft” and wants the famously downbeat musician to testify about being “sad, lonely and alienated.” Estavillo — who unsuccessfully sued Sony after being banned from the Playstation Network,...
Massively (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
If you play EverQuest , EverQuest II or Free Realms and happen upon a Station Cash card this week, you may want to considering picking one or two up. Sony Online Entertainment will be giving players with accounts in good standing a 25% boost to any Station Cash card they redeem between Monday, November 23 (after 10:00am PST) and Sunday, November 29th (before 10:00pm PST). A pretty good offer if we...
Gaming Nexus (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
by: Tina Amini NEWS - Planning on stocking up on Station Cash anytime soon? If you’re in the habit of replenishing your “wallet”, you might as well do so from now till the 29th. In the giving spirit of Thanksgiving, Sony Online is issuing a 25% bonus value if you buy redeemable Station Cash cards at retail outlets within this time period. Happy turkey-day!
The Ancient Gaming Noob (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Pointed out to me by a co-worker, a story over at GameSpot reports that one of my former neighbors (though San Jose is a big city) is suing Activision Blizzard over issues he has with World of Warcraft. From the story: He first takes exception to the game’s $14.99 monthly subscription fee, calling it the highest [...]
Massively (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
It's that time of the week again! Time go to back in time with this week's episode of ReSubbed , and boy did we pick a good one for you! What's also 10 years old, helped to start the MMO genre, and has really annoying skeletons? If you guessed EverQuest (or if you read the title above) then you'd be 100% correct! This week Seraphina is joined by Krystalle Voecks and Kyle Horner as they re-visit the...
QJ.NET (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
While professionalism has it that I reserve bashing the crap out of things, Erik Estavillo is really asking for it. Let's face it, the guy is on a s...
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
World of Warcraft maker Activision Blizzard is the latest target of a lawsuit by serial suer ( or professional plaintiff ) Erik Estavillo. Filed this morning in the Civil Division of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, the civil complaint charges Activision Blizzard with “deceitful” business practices, as it “continues to maintain a harmful virtual environment...
IGN (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
DC Universe Online (PS3) New super hero announced for upcoming MMO.
Massively (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
One of the things that we love in EverQuest II is finding some really interesting out-of-the-way places as you adventure. Beyond that, the attention to little things like water breaking on the rocks really should be seen animated to be appreciated. Today we have a great screenshot sent in to us by Pedro A that - while it can't show us the waves breaking, sadly - does show us an interesting view he...
DeviceMAG (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Black Friday is going to be a blast for online game lovers, thanks to the promotions by Sony Online Entertainment and Nexon America Games. Sony is giving its Station Cash Cards at a 25% discount. Those cards are exchangeable for in-game currency in Sony’s online titles, like FreeRealms, EverQuest, and Everquest II. The cards can be purchased [...]
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Blizzard sits at the apex of a legacy that few companies in the game industry share in; creators of not one but three influential franchises, they are also responsible for the defacto MMOG. Whether you love it or hate it it's hard to deny the impact World of Warcraft has had; bringing a strange sort of genre out of the limited reach that Everquest and Ultima Online possessed, eventually reaching double-digit...
Nerd World (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
On November 23, 2004, Blizzard Entertainment launched what would become one of the most successful games in video game history — World of Warcraft. Two expansions, 11.5 million global subscribers and an Emmy-winning South Park parody later, the massively multiplayer online fantasy game is still going strong. Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan, formerly WoW’s game director now working [...]
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