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A day late and a platinum short.



Hot on the hooves of the other sites reporting about the Blizzard
lawsuit, TechSpot
has jumped into the fray.  

"In China, the
parents of a 13-year-old Tianjin boy are suing the makers of "World
of Warcraft" because they claim
that the game was responsible for the death of their son!
Seemingly, the boy jumped to his death after re-enacting a scene from
the game, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. Anti-Internet
addiction advocate Zhang Chunliang is backing the parent’s suit against
Blizzard Entertainment. Chunliang has apparently spoken to 63 parents
whose children have allegedly suffered from online gaming addiction, and has a class-action
suit in the works.
"

Tonight you be the Troll, honey.



Great Falls Tribune has figured out what we as MMOG players have known
for a long time, "Online
gamers love the virtual world of role-playing".   
The article takes a broad stroke peek at the people who play MMOGs.

"Online gaming nearly consumes Taylor's life.
He plays more than 10 hours a day, works part-time at The Worx
Online and sometimes even sleeps there.
"I'm not homeless, I have a home, definitely," Taylor says. "A lot
of people wonder."
Taylor
is there every Friday night. From midnight until noon on Saturday, he
keeps the place open for those craving an all-nighter."

100% Cosby Free.



MMORPG has posted a Huxley interview
featuring Kijong Kang. 

"Huxley is being developed by the Korean MMORPG giant
Webzen. This
company, which has studios all over the world making MMOs, showed off
Huxley at E3 2005 with impressive visuals. Unfortunately, the language
barrier made it difficult to get the goods. So, after many
translations, we present part one of our interview with Kijong Kang."

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Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle trades in his fuzzy dice for the 20-sided
version and tells us about Day
1 at GenCon SoCal. 

"...True Dungeon and True Tavern are running full bore.
True Tavern is a tavern in just about every sense of the word,
including the alcohol, costumes, tales, and wenches (the women to the
right just happened to be really nice wenches... totally un-wenchlike,
actually). True Dungeon puts players in the middle of a true-to-life
RPG; pitting their class abilities and knowledge of the game against
puzzles and monsters in an actual dungeon crawl (click here if you'd
like to find out more). It's really not as geeky as that one Visa
Rewards commercial... well, ok, it is. But geeky is the new cool here
at Gen Con, it's one time and one place these avid gamers can go to let
their hair down (sometimes literally). And that makes Gen Con pretty
cool in my book."

Jeff will be reporting back each day.  Good luck in the jousting
event Jeff!