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Star Wars The Old Republic Multiplayer Demo

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Star Wars The Old Republic Multiplayer Demo

Bioware were showing off this sweet multiplayer gameplay demo to media at E3; they’ve now put it up on their website for the general public to see. Check out all four Republic classes in action.

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Battle.net Forums Will Display Your Real Name

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Battle.net Forums Will Display Your Real Name

Apparently Blizzard have decided that they don’t like the amount of trolling going on in their forums. To combat it, they’ve decided to completely remove the whole ‘Anonymity on the Internet’ thing and future posts will now proudly display your real first and last name – presumably so the trolls can take it off the b.net forums and onto your Facebook page.

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Could World of Warcraft Go Free To Play?

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Could World of Warcraft Go Free To Play?

In an interview with PC Gamer, World of Warcraft Lead Designer Tom Chilton mentioned, “at some point, it may not make sense for us to have a subscription fee.”

Could World of Warcraft go free-to-play?

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World of Warcraft – Tours Of Stormwind And Orgrimmar

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World of Warcraft – Tours Of Stormwind And Orgrimmar

Lots of people have been wondering what Stormwind and Orgrimmar will look in Cata, well here’s a video tour of each, courtesy of thecynicalbrit.

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World of Warcraft – Cataclysm Closed Beta Starts Today

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World of Warcraft – Cataclysm Closed Beta Starts Today

Blizzard officially launched the closed beta test for Cataclysm today. Invites are starting to be sent out to those who signed up via Battle.net (it’s not too late to sign up now!).

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WCG 2010 Asian Championship

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WCG 2010 Asian Championship

The World Cyber Games will be returning to Singapore this year with the Asian Championship. Held on 10th and 11th July 2010 at TGX10 at the Singapore Expo, National Finalists from 13 SEA countries will be invited to contend for the Asian Champion Title.

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Some Torchlight MMO Details Revealed

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Some Torchlight MMO Details Revealed

While not much is currently known about Runic Games follow up MMO to their critically acclaimed dungeon crawler, Torchlight, Runic CEO Travis Baldree has revealed some details in an interview with UK gaming mag, PC Gamer.

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Friday Fives – Rained Out Games

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Friday Fives – Rained Out Games

As I sit here making plans for what to do in the event that this deluge of rainfall never stops (”1. build a big boat”), I started thinking about all those games where rain is more than just a weather effect to show off (Richard Garriott, Ultima IX, I’m looking at you).

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World of Warcraft – Patch 3.3.5 Live

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World of Warcraft – Patch 3.3.5 Live

Patch 3.3.5, very likely the last content patch of the WoTLK expansion, is now live. Note that you won’t be able to enter the new Ruby Sanctum raid instance until the European, Korean and Taiwan servers receive the patch as well (which should be next week).

Here are the patch notes:

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EverQuest Creator Turns To Casual Gaming

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EverQuest Creator Turns To Casual Gaming

Brad McQuaid, best known as one of the creators, lead designers and producers of EverQuest (and later Executive Producer of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes) has announced that he has co-founded a new company focusing on casual/social gaming.

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