Word: warcraft
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...casually refer to himself in conversation as a Level 68 Dwarf Priest. Disarmingly polite, with a large buckled belt and a baseball cap that proudly reads “The Virginian,” Miller is every bit the Southern gentleman. And yet, surprisingly, every bit the World of Warcraft enthusiast.“You think you won’t be into it ‘til you try it,” he drawls. “Like Harry Potter.”It’s an apt comparison. Like the ubiquitous bespectacled boy wonder, World...
...after which a new software program in Internet cafés, mandated by the Chinese government on July 16, will remind gamers to "do suitable physical exercise." If gamers log on for more than five hours, the program will wipe out their points 3.5 million Number of World of Warcraft subscribers in China
...people that play these games have no problems,” says Dr. Maressa H. Orzack, an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Computer Addiction Study Center. “But there is this population that has problems. Take World of Warcraft,” aka WoW—a wildly popular online roleplaying game. “About 80.5 million people play it, so even if you take 10 to 15 percent of this percent of this population, millions. They’re the ones in trouble. Something like 40 percent of people...
...worth of prizes, including a Nintendo Wii. It featured tournaments in four games selected by an informal popularity poll: “Super Smash Brothers Melee,” “Halo,” “Starcraft: Brood War,” and “Warcraft: Defense of the Ancients.” Other games were available for casual play. Prizes were awarded to winners of each of the official tournaments. The Nintendo Wii was awarded in a raffle, for which all participants received tickets according to how many games they won. Multiplay is part...
...cocks, quail, sheep, boiled eggs and, yes, even kites. The object of this cruel ballet is to slice your opponents' string with yours, sending the vanquished tissue-paper jewel spiraling to the streets below. Packs of boys too poor to buy their own kites race for the downed warcraft so that they too can enter the fray. They are the kite runners...