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Blizzard didn't just include voice chat in WoW patch 2.2. They put a whole new sound engine into the game. For some people, that's great news. But for others, not so good. While there are a few little glitches and bugs floating around, it seems there's a big problem with Creative sound cards (definitely one of the most popular sound card brands out there). And Creative has posted on their message boards that officially, they're not very happy that Blizzard didn't consult them when upgrading their sound engine.
Apparently Blizzard's new...
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It was an hour before midnight, three hours into the night shift with nine more to go. At his workstation in a small, fluorescent-lighted office space in Nanjing, China, Li Qiwen sat shirtless and chain-smoking, gazing purposefully at the online computer game (World of Warcraft) in front of him. Twelve hours a night, seven nights a week, with only two or three nights off per month, this is what Li does.
At the end of each shift, Li reports the night’s haul to his supervisor, and at the end of the week, he, like his nine co-workers, will...
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Over the last year Ge Jin — a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego — has traveled to China to find the infamous "gold farmer," the not-so-unique type of "World of Warcraft" player who last year inspired a fan of that game to post a note on the "WoW" message board that read, "Get the goddamn Chinese out of this game." That gamer received dozens of messages in support.
Jin didn't just find the farmers. He found plenty of them. "Right now China is really the world factory of virtual goods," Jin told MTV News in an...
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It has been confirmed this morning that Burning Crusade is indeed postponed, new release date is January 2007.
Burning Crusade was due to be the biggest seller of the all-important holiday sales-season. Over 6 million people worldwide play World of Warcraft, and most were expected to pick up the expansion, which provides new content for the game.
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