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12 hrs ago | Blue's News

Neverwinter Exploit Fixed; Diablo III Exploit Revisited

The Perfect World forums have details on a rollback in Neverwinter after the discovery of a bug that some users exploited to their economic advantage in the beta RPG.

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Related Topix: Diablo III, Video Games, Cryptic Studios, Perfect World Entertainment, Neverwinter

Sun May 19, 2013

Cinema Blend News

World Of Warcraft Patch 5.3 Launching Tuesday

Blizzard will release Patch 5.3 for World of Warcraft on May 21st, the company announced on Twitter this weekend.

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Related Topix: World of Warcraft, Video Games

Examiner.com

'BioShock Infinite' is Amazon's Gold Deal of the Day amid host of grad deals

Amazon updated its deals for the week of Sunday, May 19 with a host PS3, Xbox 360 , Wii U, PC, PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS "Graduation Deals" that discounts everything from the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Collector's Edition by more than half to Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Skylanders Giants .

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Related Topix: Irrational Games, 2K Games, BioShock, Video Games, BioShock Infinite, The, Deep Silver, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, Activision, Treyarch, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Toys for Bob, Skylanders Giants

Thu May 16, 2013

Inside Mac Games

Diablo III Invades MGS

Blizzard Entertainment 's Diablo III is available now for download and purchase at Mac Game Store .

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Related Topix: Diablo III

Tue May 14, 2013

Digital Trends

Trion Worlds' massively multiplayer 'Rift' goes free-to-play in June 2013

Trion Worlds announced today that its massively multiplayer PC RPG Rift will be free-to-play starting June 12, 2013.

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Related Topix: World of Warcraft

Mon May 13, 2013

QJ.net

Blizzard Cleans Up Diablo Auction House Exploit; Donates Proceeds to Charity

Last week, Blizzard pushed a new patch into Diablo III. This patch contained a small glitch that allowed a select few players to dupe trillions of gold through an auction house exploit -- an exploit that forced Blizzard to shut down the entire system for a few days while it picked up the pieces.

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Related Topix: Diablo III, Video Games

Sun May 12, 2013

Computer And Video Games

Profits made from Diablo 3 exploit go to charity

Blizzard has announced that players who exploited the recent Diablo III gold-multiplying bug introduced in patch 1.0.8 will have all their profits donated to charity.

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Related Topix: Diablo III, Video Games

Thu May 09, 2013

QJ.net

World of Warcraft is Still Top Dog Despite Drop in Subscriptions

Activision has announced that World of Warcraft's subscriber base is down, but that still hasn't stopped it from holding the title of the world's top subscription-based MMORPG.

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Related Topix: World of Warcraft, Activision, Software

PETA

Terrans for the Ethical Treatment of Zerglings

Each week, PETA's campaigners publish a new post about their lives as they travel the country fighting for animals.

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Related Topix: Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Video Games, Irvine, CA, Animal Rights

WarCry

Blizzard Rereleases Mists of Pandaria Collector's Edition

Well this is a little odd. Blizzard announced on their blog Tuesday that they are placing the World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria back on their online store .

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Related Topix: World of Warcraft, Video Games

Cult of Mac Blog

'Dead Space' Art Book Launches On iPad, 'Halo 4a 2 Book Coming On Friday

Whether you love video games or not, there's no doubt that games like Halo and Dead Space feature some incredible artwork to breathe life into the make-believe worlds populated by crazed gamers looking for thrills.

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Related Topix: Video Games, Dead Space, Halo, 343 Industries, Microsoft Game Studios, Titan

TechEBlog

The Avengers as World of Warcraft Characters

If Marvel were to partner with Blizzard for a special World of Warcraft game, this is how The Avengers would probably look inside the WoW universe - Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Nick Fury included.

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Related Topix: World of Warcraft, Video Games

Slashdot

Integer Overflow Bug Leads To Diablo III Gold Duping

Nerval's Lobster writes "Online economies come with their own issues. Case in point is the Auction House for Diablo III , a massively multiplayer game in which players can pay for items in either in-game gold or real-world dollars.

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Related Topix: Diablo III, Video Games

Wed May 08, 2013

International Business Times

Nokia Lumia 625 Rumors: Upcoming Smart Phone Features, Specs and Release Date

Apart from the Nokia Lumia 928 and Nokia Lumia Catwalk, the Finnish company will reportedly release another Nokia Lumia smart phone range called the Nokia Lumia 625.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, Titan, Video Games

Forbes.com

I am MT: Card Battle Comes To North America

Locojoy's I am MT: Card Battle is an interesting specimen that has just launched in North America.

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Related Topix: World of Warcraft, Video Games

GamersHell.com

Diablo III v1.0.8a Patch Released

Note that you will not be prompted to download patch 1.0.7a until the patch is live in your home region Diablo III has been updated to v1.0.8 in North America, Europe and Asia, Blizzard announced.

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Related Topix: Diablo III, Video Games

SlashGear.com

Diablo III market down: rollback axed as gold-dupers hunted

If you've been playing Diablo III , this week, you know that there's been a bit of a break in the normal everyday action in both the Gold and Real-Money Auction Houses.

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Related Topix: Diablo III, Video Games

Ars Technica

Blizzard fixes Diablo III gold duplication bug, but the damage may be done

Yesterday's release of the 1.0.8 patch for Diablo III fixed many known bugs , but it also added an exploit that let savvy users create in-game gold out of thin air, wreaking havoc on the in-game economy and real-money auction house.

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Related Topix: Diablo III, Video Games

Tue May 07, 2013

MSN Money

Think you've got a bad gig? History's worst jobs

Modern-day jobs have their share of drawbacks, but we can thank our lucky stars that we're no longer tasting food for poison.

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Related Topix: Video Games, World of Warcraft

Nag.blog

Diablo III 1.0.8

The 1.0.8 patch for Diablo III is now live, fixing many of the few real remaining issues with the game.

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Related Topix: Diablo III