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WoWHead.com sold for $1m

jamie — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:37:44 +0000

The WoW database-site WoWHead was just sold to a company called ZAM media. Wheter ZAM / Affinity Media really is IGE or its parent company I will let my well-educated readers be the judges. Apparently there is a vow that WoWhead will NOT contain Wow gold advertisments or similar ads. That is a bit confusing, but I guess whoever bought the site wants a firm grip of the market.

Ofcourse Wowhead.com has and have had in the past a very nice alexa ranking and plenty of links. See for yourself at Alexa.
If you are interested, please see the sources. Especially the very interesting link at techsoapbox.com where Amid (a former IGE-employee) rants a bit about this entire business.
Sources: Slashdot.org, Tech Soapbox, News.com

Two very interesting topics to read up on

jamie — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:27:34 +0000

Wired writes about voice chat in games:

But after a few hours he said he was getting tired of using text chat — and asked me to switch over to Ventrilo, an app that lets gamers chat using microphones and voice. I downloaded Ventrilo, logged in, dialed him up and …

… realized he was an 11-year-old boy, complete with squeaky, prepubescent vocal chords. When he laughed, his voice shot up abruptly into an octave range that induced headaches and probably killed any dogs within earshot. Oh, and he used “motherfucker” about four times a sentence, except when his mother came into his bedroom to check on him.

Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood on WoW

New York Times writes about the life of a chinese gold farmer:

It is estimated that there are thousands of businesses like it all over China, neither owned nor operated by the game companies from which they make their money. Collectively they employ an estimated 100,000 workers, who produce the bulk of all the goods in what has become a $1.8 billion worldwide trade in virtual items. The polite name for these operations is youxi gongzuoshi, or gaming workshops, but to gamers throughout the world, they are better known as gold farms.

The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer

World of warcraft in South Park

jamie — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:44:49 +0000

This weeks episode of South park features a absolutely hilarious story from WoW. Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman has to fight a ubergeek who has taken over world of warcraft. Only Stans father can help them save WoW with the sword of a thousand truths. Click the link for more images from the episode!

Whats really fun is that they take the issue of farming really seriously, to complete their quest they need to kill boars, which we all know gives little xp and next to zero gold. Smarter kids would have gone straight to IGE and bought their gold, geesh.

Watch the preview of the episode from comedy central here.

MMOGChart updated

jamie — Tue, 30 May 2006 22:37:49 +0000

THE chart of what MMOG has the most players has been updated again. As we all know WoW is the biggest, but what about second, third etc.

Anyway, who cares. They’re only in it for the gold anyway…

Serenity Now, Ipat

jamie — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:36:40 +0000

Some really lame people decided it would be a great idea to attack a in game funeral (yeah, well thats lame too, but whatever makes things better for those people …). Obviously 15-year olds think this kind of stuff is fun. If you want to see the tragic video (I wont link it), go to google video and search for serenity now.

Chinese new year 2006 (beginning 29/jan)

jamie — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:34:26 +0000

Chinese new year – year of the dog
Many providers of gold report a shortage of both gold and items as the chinese new year is in progress meaning our chinese friends are with their family celebrating! A very needed break some argue .

Chuck Norris hat

jamie — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:43:41 +0000

The head-wear of choice!

Get your own Chuck Norris hat ingame.

No luck getting it with a drop? Buy it with your WoW gold!

Stats:

Binds when picked up
Unique
Head	Cloth
2744 Armor
+54 Agility
+163 Intellect
+73 Spirit
+209 Stamina
+53 Strength
Requires Level 60

Chuck rules, get your quick fact fix about Chuck on the Random Chuck Norris fact page