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More WoW Commercials

POSTED BY Matt Marquez, 19 December 2007 | PERMALINK

Like Nemo, I've also come across the new WoW commercials which is pretty amazing considering I don't own a tv. Here's the latest commercial featuring Verne Troyer of Austin Powers fame, but my favorite celebrity commercial is Mr. T's. I pity the foo who thinks otherwise. Okay, I'm done now.

Verne Troyer Commercial 

 

Mr. T Commercial

And just for fun, here's...

New WoW commercials

POSTED BY Nemo, 17 December 2007 | PERMALINK

I just saw a new WOW commercial featuring Verne Troyer and I quickly ran through the interwebs looking for it to show it to you loyal fans. Couldn’t find it but I did find international versions that you might want to check out as well. The first one features some Spanish actor that most, if not all, of you will have no idea who he is, but the second one has one of our favorite film action...

Former Trek Online designers says STO is nigh impossible to make

POSTED BY Nemo, 13 December 2007 | PERMALINK



Former senior system designer Eric Heimburg made a post in www.eldergame.com stating the many difficulties there are in making an MMO based on the Star Trek universe. Let me first stated that, yes I am not a video game designer or anything that comes close to that, but this post read with defeatist attitude written all over it.

He first complains that they need to make two games, a space...

Now that Fury is free to play they fire everybody

POSTED BY Nemo, 13 December 2007 | PERMALINK

 

Well it’s not as evil as it sounds but Auran, the developers of Fury, have filled for bankruptcy and let go most of the people working with Fury. There’s still “a small but committed team to continue developing FURY on an ongoing basis.” So the game will still have content updates and the like. The end of this year looks like its proving that anyone cannot make an MMO out of anything with...

Blizzard prepares Russian version of WoW and Conan prepares to chops its legs

POSTED BY Nemo, 13 December 2007 | PERMALINK



Blizzard really wants the “Biggest MMO in the world” title for their game don’t they ? They are now preparing a Russian version of WoW which will be the fifth European language version of the game. They are going to have to do a lot of hard work to beat the colossus known as Maplestory if they want that MMO crown. Maplestory numbers are tremendous but are not really known because… well...