Gold farming, if you’re unaware, is the practice of crating a cache of virtual money or items in games like World of Warcraft, then selling that money and/or items for real money. It’s a shady practice that many gamers look down upon and many gaming companies try to restrict. It still goes on because many [...]
As I think I’ve said before, I’m new to console gaming. Earlier this year I got a Playstation 3 — my first console since a Sega Dreamcast, which in turn was my first console since the Atari 5200 — and I’ve been getting slowly more and more sucked into console gaming, especially as I get [...]
Recently, Blizzard entertainment announced plans to make real names mandatory on their Starcraft 2 forums, with other forums like World of Warcraft to follow. This was met with a wide array of opinions, both positive and negative. While I’m in the positive camp, I know many, many people who prefer pseudonyms over their real names [...]
According to an article on IGN, a new website called GameCrush is about to launch, and the point of this site is to pay women to play video games with subscribers of the site. Apparently on the site, guys are “Players” and girls are “PlayDates”. Paying a fee gets you a certain amount of points [...]
