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...that point that I retreated to my old haven of video games and purchased Everquest, the forerunner to WoW. The dude at the counter rang me up and laughed as he said "Picking up Evercrack, I see." I didn't fully get the joke until two years later. By then I was playing the game 16 hours a day. I'd gained 30 pounds. I didn't have a job. The end came one weekend when I played a marathon session, which I only interrupted for trips to Dunkin' Donuts. I quit, lost the weight, and put my life back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a 30-Year-Old Gamer | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

...worth of clothes on the floor, playing in the 3-D virtual world of EverQuest via a wireless connection to the Web. "She's on it four hours a day," says husband Jesse, 22, with an indulgent laugh--and with no exaggeration at all, he swears. "They call it EverCrack for a reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wi-Fi Gets Rolling | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...world. The Sims Online belongs to an emerging category of computer games that use the Internet to put players into a three-dimensional shared virtual world. These games can be ferociously addictive: the most successful example of the genre, Sony's Everquest, is known to its player-inhabitants as "Evercrack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sim Nation | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...This week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, a select few VIPs will get an early glimpse of EverQuest II, a sequel likely to trigger another Norrath population boom. The game has become a global addiction so quickly that insiders jokingly refer to it as "Evercrack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Cyberspace | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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