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Game Etiquette: How Virtual Rudeness Reflects Real Life 2007-10-25 17:05:15 I play World of Warcraft, and have been playing the game off and on for years. I recently acquired my own account, early this year around the time of my birthday. I really enjoy the game very much. There are so many places to explore, so many interesting quests, NPC’s, items, weapons, and ultimately players. The players are what this article is about. I have met so many fun people on the game, as well as play with my friends from my real life world. I also have met people that make me want to strangle them.
Now you say why would you feel that way Wolffie, well here’s some examples of what annoyances or “Virtual Rudeness”, I have encountered. So I’m on my Hunter checking my mail, you know seeing what sold in Auction House or AH as we call it on my game. I could also be questing, or talking to guild mates or other friends from the game, when out of nowhere I get a box popping on the screen, with someone I don’t know sending me a gr Read more:Real Life
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Wii save the day! 2007-10-23 19:14:16 Most companies don’t publish their public blunders but this one is kinda funny. We decided to host our second tournament at a bar in Raleigh, NC featuring Madden 2008 on PS2, you know since it’s football season and all. The idea wasn’t necessarily ours but a Madden tournament while Monday Night Football is playing over the speakers sounded pretty good. We already hosted a Guitar Hero 2 Tournament and it was a great success. So we decided to branch out to a new market.
We let the bar do the marketing since it was their idea. No comment on their performance but let’s say the end result was a bust. Only three people entered and they worked there. With it silent and everyone seeming bored watching three people play Madden, I decide to that it’s time to break out the Wii
(thanks Boyd).
Instantly there was a line watching and waiting for their time to break a sweat. The first game, boxing. Being my first time experiencing the Wii in full, I fell in lov
Video Game Developers Wanted 2007-10-16 11:44:12 So I read video games cost an average of $1,000,000 to $20,000,000 to make. Getting near the price of movie production. Why so much? Is it due to the complexity of the game or the nice cars the game developers drive. Or maybe they are paying off the 9 other bad games developed that never made it to publication.
Everything now a days can be made into a game. I have an idea for a MMO video game. It’s called “Mojo”. Mojo is an MMO video game where you learn the art of picking up women/men. You create your own loser, pick a job you just got fired from, pick a hot spouse who just divorced you, and maybe select create some bottom feeder shiftless kids. Your main purpose, get your Mojo back. You will learn “what people perceive of you” and that you shouldn’t care and have confidence in yourself to achieve whatever dreams you desire.
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Halo 3 Demo 2007-10-16 11:06:00 So I don’t play XBOX 360 as much as I played in the past. I decided to run to EB Games and try a snag the newest Halo 3 video game to write a review. Armed with two handful of quarters, I glance to see an available copy. Like a stealth Ninja, I managed to out maneuver a kick-boxing soccer mom, a dread head whom hasn’t bath in two years, and a nerd drolling over the game like it was his first kiss. Only to come back with a demo box….
A demo box…you know, those empty packages that look and feel just like the game. I thought I had hit the jackpot today on last weeks lottery. So, bling! It hits me, my XBOX 360 is broken anyways, I got the red ring of death. My staff tried putting it in the freezer to help the glue from the heat sink or fan glue back together. Didn’t work, well it worked for 5 minutes then back to the red death star.
I decide to go ahead and price out some PS2’s for our Madden Monday’s Tournament we host. The lady behin
Political Spirit Healer 2007-10-04 23:42:07 So everyone is trying to fall for the right Presidential Candidate. It’s almost like dating, everyone puts up their nice front until they finally release their beast. I decided to be the Political Spirit Healer
, maybe I will be that for Halloween. I want to resurrect some issues that gamers have forgotten. Let’s talk money. Did you know that Hillary Clinton wants to tax all video games. It’s bad enough Sony has pushed up the bar on the prices of video games to $60 for PS3. Mrs. Clinton wants to increase that even more.
For all those parents saying “good”, you are the ones that foot the bill. The average video game is purchased by someone 40 years old (Data). Sixty-nine percent of American Head of Households play video games. Is this a way to tax the American people without us knowing? No special taxes on movie tickets, no special taxes on music CD’s, then why the hell would they tax video games.
We gamers need to think about thi
Health Video Games 2007-10-03 10:37:04 Health care patients have an aid in learning how to take care of ones self. In “Video Games
Aim to Hook Children on Better Health” , by Christopher Lee, we see the full potential for video games. The ability to help decrease urgent care visits by playing a cancer fighting agent is an awesome breakthrough. I have never had a major illness other than “Mono” that left me in the hospital for one week during my senior year Spring Break. But I can imagine any inspiration of hope is needed in a time of crisis.
I watched the trailer for the game developed by HopeLab, a not-for-profit video game developer/researcher, then checked out their site. I like this company and where they are going. They have a new contest, “Ruckus Nation” , where you can receive $75,000 for the winning idea for getting kids moving around. My idea is to put kids to work as soon as they talk back. Dad’s working, mom’s working, put little Jimmy to work.
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Cheater who? Cheater me? 2007-10-03 04:01:42 After reading the article “Can Video Game Cheating Be Prevented?” by Brian Bergstein and Matt Slagle , I smiled sitting in my office chair. Am I a cheat? I really never cheated on exams in high school, didn’t cheat much in college, didn’t have a game genie or shark, never could remember codes for Grand Theft Auto, then why am I am CEO of The Unknown Gamer, a company that aids in the advancement of MMORPG’s?
I represent people whom have lives and can’t spend all day questing or stabbing mobs. They earn income to support a life style of eventual spare time and playing video games.
There is a balance of power here of those “with time” and those “without time”. Most of our customers don’t have the time because they are busy keeping your computer networks up or representing you in court due to your speeding ticket because you chose to speed home to play WOW or maybe the heart surgeon that tells you that exercise is good Read more:Cheater
Is Google trying to take on Second Life 2007-10-01 11:30:32 It appears that Google
might be testing a new metaverse application based around their google map data.Acording to an article over at TimesOnline, Google is giving Arizona State University students the opportunity to test a new product “that will be publicly launched later this year”.
An announcement by the university, which already has significant ties with Google, said that the project was being developed by a “major internet company” and contained hints that it would include features related to 3D-modelling and video gaming.
The rumor is said to have started by a blog post this year from Michael Eisenberg, a partner at Benchmark Capital, the technology-focused venture capital group, who said he had heard “through the PhD grapevine … Google is working on turning Google Earth into a virtual world a la Second
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Free Power Leveling from TheUnknownGamer 2007-10-01 11:28:33 The Unknown Gamer is accepting Articles related to World of Warcraft and other MMORPG topics in exchange for Power Leveling
. In short we will level your world of warcraft character for you while you are off doing other things, and for payment we want your articles. The better the article the longer we will level your character for.
If you think you have what it takes to write unique and interesting information related to online video gaming please email a sample of your writing to ceo@theunknowngamer.com
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Wow Power Leveling 2007-09-22 14:46:24 WoW Power Leveling
is the topic at hand, power leveling historically was achieved by having a player in a game that is a much higher level than you, walking you through aspects of game play that you would not normally be able to survive in. These power leveling efforts were scaled with the overseas leveling operations.
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Clinton's Apocalypse of Video Games 2007-12-14 09:56:32 In the beginning, there was just television. No interactivity, no team work, no online connectivity, just television but with television came no taxes. Then Pong emerged that lead us to famous titles such as Geometry Wars (bias) to Gears of War to World of Warcraft. Now, the greedy politicians want to get their grubby hands on video games with a Video Game Tax.
Hillary Clinton
, the leading Democratic Presidential Candidate, wants to impose a video game tax on all games purchased. Mentioned in 2006 while trying to gain support from parents and other dexterity lacking individuals, Clinton has been quiet in her recent campaign which means she is a sleeping giant ready to ruin the wallets and pocketbooks of 75.6 million head of Households or 63% who still play video and computer games. Based on the statistics from The ESA , 38 years is the average age of gamers purchasing video games. Will that mean a line item on my 1040 for my WOW and Hellgate subscriptions? Will I now have Read more:Apocalypse
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