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Dreamhack leveling contest

Posted Nov 29th 2007 4:01PM by Eliah Hecht
Filed under: Events, Contests, Leveling

As Massively reported a little while back, Dreamhack, which bills itself as "the world's largest computer festival," will be hosting some pretty awesome WoW contests this year. The party kicked off today in Sweden, and Blizzard Europe recently posted some details on the contest they'll be running. The task is to see how high you can level in 20 minutes, using a new character of any race and any class.

Signups started at the Extreme Masters booth in Hall C at 4:00 PM CET, which was two hours ago (10 AM EST), and will go until 8 PM CET today and tomorrow at times to be announced. Qualifier times and rounds are also TBD, and the finals will be held Saturday from 7 PM to 9 PM CET at the Extreme Masters booth. Is anyone at Dreamhack or going to be attending? Will you compete? Also, if you are at Dreamhack, word on the forums is that both Vaneras and Thundgot are hanging out at the Blizzard/Intel booth in hall C (is this the same as the Extreme Masters booth?), and will be pleased to chat with you.

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WoW Moviewatch: Stealthing IRL

Posted Sep 14th 2007 12:00PM by Elizabeth Harper
Filed under: WoW Moviewatch

To paraphrase the Matrix: unfortunately, you cannot be told what this video is. You must see it for yourself.
After watching it, I can't help but wonder if spending my days in stealth might occasionally be an improvement. (Think about all of the dull office conversations that could be avoided!) The only difficulty would be perfecting the walk -- well, that and the air of certainty that no one can see you!

Previously on Moviewatch...
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WoW Rewards Visa

Posted May 3rd 2007 9:33PM by Eliah Hecht
Filed under: Blizzard, News items, Economy



I had to check my calendar to make sure this wasn't still April 1st: Blizzard is announcing that you can now get a WoW credit card! It's a Visa that gives you 1% of all your purchases as free game time, as well as a free month with your first purchase. The 1% rewards rate means spending $1,500 with the card nets you a free month of play. There are some other credit cards that give you 1% cash back (or more) on all purchases, though, so this card's strongest point seems to be its attractive designs. Then again, that may not be such a good feature if you don't want to out yourself as a WoW player every time you open your wallet. With no annual fee, I might well pick one of these up myself, if only to use once for the free month. What about you guys?
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Player ganks woman's character, gets beat up by husband

Posted May 2nd 2007 2:04PM by Eliah Hecht
Filed under: Virtual selves, News items, PvP

A Mexican WoW player named Bronco Carson got beat up in real life by the husband of the player he had been repeatedly ganking, as well as a few of the husband's friends. Apparently, he'd been killing the heck out of this woman's character, which is reasonable enough, although somewhat annoying. The woman started threatening Carson at some point, but hey, it's the internet, right? They don't know where he lives.

Wrong! Carson seems to have decided that a good idea would be to give the woman his address and and ask "if her husband was man enough to just come meet me to settle this." Um...bad move, sir. The husband and friends came and beat him up, netting Carson two broken fingers, a fractured wrist, and a destroyed computer and entertainment center. The moral of the story: if you're going to make life hard for someone in-game, don't give them your address and taunt their husband to come fight you. You are not prepared.

Note that this story may well be fake, seeing as how there's no terribly credible source for it -- all the references to it I've been able to find trace back to this story on Fun Tech Talk. Grain of salt and all that.

P.S. Just so we're clear, beating people up isn't cool, especially when it's three against one.

[via wow.qj.net]
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