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Star Wars: The Old Republic Deemed Too Gay By Evangelical Hatemonger

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council has publicly taken action against Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game because of what he calls strong support for gay and bisexual themes. During ... continue

Star Wars; The Old Republic Launches at Midnight

The stroke of Midnight (EST), on Tuesday, 12.20.2011, is the moment online gamers have been anticipating for six years. The official launch of Star Wars; The Old Republic (SW;TOR) is just hours away and the people who ... continue

Get Out Your Lightsabers And Blasters: Star Wars; The Old Republic Rocks The Galaxy

After 6 long years of of waiting, online gamers can finally rejoice. Star Wars;The Old Republic (SW;TOR) has arrived. Bioware spared no expense to create what they promised would be the ultimate Star Wars MMO (Massively Multi-player ... continue

Star Wars; The Old Republic Wraps Up Beta Testing; Millions Anxiously Await December 20, 2011 Release Date

The year long beta test for Star Wars; The Old Republic came to a successful conclusion on Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 11:59 PM CST. The final weekend of beta testing drew over 2 million participants, according ... continue

Prisoners forced to farm virtual gold in China’s labor camps

There's a disturbing exposé piece over at The Guardian right now about the treatment of prisoners at Chinese labor camps. According to the paper's report, inmates (many imprisoned for 'ideological' crimes) are regularly forced to spend their nights ... continue

200 Jobs axed as Sony closes three studios

As part of an ongoing restructuring Sony announced today that it is closing three studios in its Sony Online Entertainment division. Those closings will see 250 jobs go bye-bye as studios in Denver, Seattle and Tucson close. ... continue

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm obliterates Warcraft sales record

Sorry, did someone say World of Warcraft was on the way out? Hm? It was the game's own publisher? Oh, right. D'oh. Far from being on its last legs, expansion World of Warcraft: Cataclysm hit stores last week, ... continue

[VIDEO] Hardcore World of Warcraft fan shows up developer at BlizzCon

This is beautiful. Everything about it. The stilted delivery of the question. The "Uh, thanks, we'll fix that" response. The triumphant walk away from camera. The hilarious fact that Blizzard is making so much money from World of ... continue

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm to be downloadable at launch

Blizzard has confirmed that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will be in stores and also downloadable from December 7, making it the first World of Warcraft expansion that can be bought and downloaded before release. Of course, when I ... continue

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm dated for December

Activision Blizzard has revealed that World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm will launch December 7th, as both a digital download from Blizzard's online store and as a DVD-ROM for Windows and Mac for all you grandads out there. World ... continue

35-year-old woman charged with seducing minor on World of Warcraft

A Michigan resident and twice-married mother-of-five has been charged with "using the Internet to entice a minor into sexual activity", after she seduced a 15-year-old boy while playing World of Warcraft. 35-year-old Angie L. Jenkins told the teenager ... continue

Michael Jackson MMO coming in 2011

*checks calendar* Nope, not April 1st. So it looks like Michael Jackson, deceased King of Pop, is getting his own MMO game. People, you are invited to ... Planet Michael. Billed as "The Ultimate Michael Jackson Online Game" (not ... continue

Eve Online player thieves $45,000 worth of in-game cash

The line between reality and the virtual world took another whack in the face today, with news that a player of popular MMO Eve Online has stolen in-game currency equal to $45,000. The scam was pulled off ... continue

Jamie Lee Curtis: Actress, author … World of Warcraft addict?

The Video Games Live music concert tour has been going for close to a decade now, bringing live orchestral performances of gaming's greatest soundtracks to venues across the globe. By all acounts, it's a pretty awesome show. On ... continue

Nanny state alert: South Korea clamping down on late-night gamers

In a move that would have Orwell spinning in his grave, South Korea plans to crack down on gamers who play into the wee hours, by enforcing a nightly six-hour blackout on 19 different MMO games. With South ... continue

Snap it up: 50% off Borderlands on Steam this weekend

If you're taking a break from scarfing chocolate at any point this weekend, you may want to take advantage of Steam's latest offer: 50% off the excellent Borderlands (now without game-breaking bugs!). Jesus would approve!* I've personally invested ... continue