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Earn $30,000 - $100,000

POSTED BY , 28 June 2007 | PERMALINK

World of Warcraft will be one of the featured games in this year’s Championship Gaming Series (CGS) World Championship. The upcoming CGS draft will be held at BlizzCon. CGS teams will earn $30,000 - $100,000. They will also stand to earn more in annual in salaries and bonuses as professional gamers.

More information at World of Warcraft forums.

Wowhead Acquired by Affinity Media

POSTED BY , 26 June 2007 | PERMALINK

Wowhead CEO Tim Sullivan recently announced that the site had been acquired by Affinity Media, the parent of the ZAM Network. Affinity is now in control of Thottbot, Allakhazam, and now Wowhead, making it essentially the News Corp of WoW.

More shocking than Affinity's hegemonic control of WoW media outlets, however, is the fact that Wowhead was purportedly purchased for $1 million. A...

The Star Wars Galaxies House Pack Up starts today.

POSTED BY , 22 June 2007 | PERMALINK

The squatter community will be dealt a major blow today as the evil Empire will begin its House Pack Up Program. They have hired anyone willing to begin demolition of buildings that have been left “Abandoned” by their owners since April of last year. As an incentive to the participants of these “Wrecking crews” badges will be given out to workers that stand out by bringing down a certain...

WoW Midsummer Fire Festival

POSTED BY , 21 June 2007 | PERMALINK

The Midsummer Fire Festival is here. Light fires accross the land, check out the decorations, partake in activities, dance around the Ribbon Pole and more.

Like all other holidays in WOW this one comes with its own unique set of goodies, missions, and hundreds of folks asking, “Where do I find X item/place/person?” Over and over, and over again. Anyway come join the festival by...

LOTRO Summer Festival Begins!

POSTED BY , 21 June 2007 | PERMALINK

Middle Earth is celebrating starting today and going thru July 10th. Each race has a special name for this festival which takes place in four different areas. There will be special vendors supplying pipe-weed, drinks and even Elven Fireworks! And if you are sober enough to stand up, seek out the 'dance leader' and learn some sweet moves. End the night competing in the tavern crawl or...