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Friday Fives – Crazy Videogame Marketing

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Friday Fives – Crazy Videogame Marketing

Have you seen the marketing campaign for APB? Basically they’ve suckered some guy into being a Human Avatar. The Internet will give him a complete makeover, in the style of the character customization tool from the game. New haircut, new piercings, new tattoos, new clothes – the works.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Beta Begins

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Beta Begins

Or to use the term Bioware prefers, “Game Testing.”

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Blizzard Cancels Real Name Plans; Trolls (And Everyone Else) Rejoice

After a tidal wave of negative feedback (including one creepy Blizzard employee stalking incident), Blizzard has decided to cancel their plans for real names to appear on their Battle.net forums.

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TGX In Pictures

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TGX In Pictures

The Games Xpo kicked off at Singapore Expo Hall 6 today and GameAxis was down there to check out the action.

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Friday Fives – Street Fighter IV Pros

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Friday Fives – Street Fighter IV Pros

Who are the greatest Street Fighter IV players on the planet? Find out here, complete with video footage. (Hint: One of them is in Singapore today!)

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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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