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Stargate Worlds - Survey

Stargate World current have survey on their main site. This, I'm sure, is intended to get some feedback on who is looking to play their up coming MMO and what type of MMO's they've played in the past.

So head on over to Stargate Worlds and take the survey, there is a little surprise at the end for those that do :)

A glut of Stargate Worlds info

In the past week or so a glut of information has been released via the recent GDC (Game Developers Conference) and various interviews.

We have also seen 5 new screenshots/concept art released. These feature some interesting 'drones' and landscapes littered with cluster bombs.

Stargate Worlds Peek #1 - IGN
Joe Ybarra Dials Us In - Ten Ton Hammer
Stargate Worlds details divulged - Gamespot

EVE Online DEV misconduct

It seems it has come to light that some (one proven) of the game developers who actually play the game have used their admin abilities to give advantage to themselves and the corp/alliances they have been members of.

t20 dev blog admitting to misconduct: On Recent Allegations
Hellmar admitting that t20 should have been terminated, but wasn't because people were on summer vacation: The Commitment
Response thread on the blog: t20 and Hellmar speak on recent events
Kieron's attempt at damage control: Dev comments concerning the Hellmar and t20 blogs

Shocking:World of Warcraft Patch 2.0 Gold Grinding Bug!

Blizzard released the latest patch for World of Warcraft on 5th Dec. Recently, a gold farmer revealed that the new patch had a big gold grinding bug.

During trade, he unexpectedly noticed that after doing trade between two accounts with nothing left on an account, then log out and log in again, the money will remain the same on that account which should be empty. But the money on the other account increased. A level 1 character can use 1 copper to grind 20k gold in 10min.Needlessly to say, grinder's money will increase crazily. One Chinese farmer duped more than 500,000 gold and sold them out in several hours.It is really shocking to see such a bug happen in WoW.

Every MMORPG has a special economy of its own. This bug would have brought billions of unlawful gold into the market. which might result in the crash of WoW's economy and directly influence the release of its upcoming expansion. When Blizzard was aware of the bug, they sent GM to monitor the hotels where gold grinding happened.At 11am 6th Dec., the bug was fixed.

CCP & White Wolf merger

In a surprise to many CCP (maker of EVE Online) and White Wolf (makers of World of Darkness (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage) and Exalted) have announced to merge and create one of the industry's largest independent Virtual World developer.

With CCP recently introducing their own CCG (Customizable Card Gard) the move is a shock. The merger will now allow for White Wolf offline games to be moved to the Online realm.

For full details check out the companies press releases:
GAMING INDUSTRY INNOVATORS CCP AND WHITE WOLF MERGE - CCP
Gaming Industry Innovators CCP and White Wolf to Merge - White Wolf

SG-W first screenshots

The long await first in game screenshots and additional renders have finally been released by CME.

In the screenshot you'll see the inside of a vessel and a Serpant Guard at what I think it's a gate dialing device.

For screenshots and more info please visit the main site FIRST OFFICIAL SCREENSHOT

DELL Battery recall

Dell has identified a potential issue associated with certain batteries sold with Dell Latitude�, Inspiron�, XPS� and Dell Precision Mobile Workstation� notebook computers. In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and other regulatory agencies, Dell is voluntarily recalling certain Dell-branded batteries with cells manufactured by Sony and offering free replacements for these batteries. Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could pose a risk of fire.

Potentially affected batteries were sold with the following models of Dell notebook computers or separately as secondary batteries:

Latitude: D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810

Inspiron: 500M, 510M, 600M, 700M, 710M, 6000, 6400, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, E1505, E1705

Precision: M20, M60, M70, M90

XPS: XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170, XPS M1710

For more information and details on returns visit Dell Battery Return Program

14 GAME PUBLISHERS PARTICIPATING IN LIVEPITCH AT THE AUSTIN GAME CONFERENCE

AUSTIN, Texas, August 3, 2006 - The Game Initiative, the leading producer of conferences for professionals in the computer and video game industry, announced today the participating publishers for the 4th annual LivePitch, sponsored by WildTangent Inc., unfolding at the Austin Game Conference, September 6-7-8, 2006. LivePitch applicants will have the chance to present their projects to Capcom Entertainment, Game Trust, Inc., Comcast, Stardock Entertainment, NCsoft, GoPets Inc., PlayFirst, Majesco Entertainment, Atari, Inc., Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc, MTV Networks, iWin, WildTangent, and Codemasters.

LivePitch at the Austin Game Conference is currently accepting applications from game developers with unsigned projects and is a unique opportunity for these developers to present original content to publishers looking for MMOG, PC, casual, or console games to bring to market.

LivePitch lets publishers maximize the number of studios and projects they can interact with in one location at one time. Developers get 30 minutes to demo their game and woo interested publishers one-on-one in a private meeting room at the conference. The Austin Game Conference handles the scheduling and logistics, so the developers and publishers can simply show up and get to business.

New Feature: Paid Character Transfer Service

Well WoW has finally opened up the lucrative market of paid account transfers. Which unlike the traditional transfers which were only set to specific realms at specific times, this will allow more freedom to transfer to nearly any realm you want.

Now there are a large number of restrictions and criteria to meet before a realm is open for transfer or a character is available to be transfers. You will also be able to transfer account to account also. There is also a number of restriction and criteria to meet for this to be possible.

For more information check out the Paid Character Transfer FAQ.
For a list of realms here

More accounts closed! New Oceanic servers.

Well keeping with their tough stance on cheating in WoW, they have banned 30,000 account in the month of May with a reported removal of 30 million gold from the in game economy.

They have vowed to aggressively monitor all World of Warcraft realms for cheating and violations of the EULA. Remember the selling of any WoW content for money is a violation of the EULA and can result in the banning of your account.

Also WoW have opened up two new Oceanic servers, called Aman'Thul a PvE realm, and Barthilas, a PvP realm. These will be set to +10 GMT and will allow Oceanic players better oportunities for play.