Future tech on show at 36th SIGGRAPH

If you pull on my ear, will I follow you anywhere?

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Sony seeks to reinvent online gaming

Not long ago, before “World of Warcraft” became the 800-pound gorilla of online games, there was “EverQuest.”

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How to buy a basic digital TV

By the end of 2007, more than 50 percent of American households owned a digital television, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

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What makes video games 'addictive'?

Are video games addictive?

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A Massachusetts man who police say drove to Madison last week looking for a 17-year-old boy he met in an online game had an arsenal of weapons, restraints and rubber gloves in his vehicle when he was arrested Friday, Massachusetts State Police said.

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The 19-year-old man will undergo a 12-step treatment at the reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Programme in Washington state, which has opened for business to cater for the growing number of "cyber junkies".

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A chihuahua named Smokey wandered around with a fork stuck deep in his head for three days! Okay. So, yes, if you click on this, you will see a cute small hound with a grilling fork - one of those two-prong dealies - stuck in his head. But it's okay! Really it is!

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Faction Change coming to World of Warcraft

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What the 3.2 Patch will mean for the casual players for World of Warcraft.

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This should go into the category: "What scientists do when the boss is out of town." This video shows a couple scientists who are "boiling water into ice." Can you describe how they do this?

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My litmus test for a distribution is an aging, quirky laptop that suffers from the old Via Chrome video chipset. On a rare occasion, a distribution will install, but generally speaking when it finally does, it's sluggish and seems like any minute it will crap out on me.

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World of Warcraft Noble Garden Celebrates Easter!

I'd completely forgotten Easter already until I logged into my World of Warcraft account and noticed nobody was around. Hmm...where could all the regular fools be? I clicked my calendar and noticed something called "Noble Garden" began on Sunday.

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Is World of Warcraft as addictive as crack cocaine? Some say yes. Others are too busy playing World of Warcraft to answer.

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The report is still unpublished, but details were given out to Swedish media.

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Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Home prices in 20 U.S. cities declined 18.5 percent in December from a year earlier, the fastest drop on record, as foreclosures climbed and sales sank.

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NBC reports on the "secret language" of World of Warcraft players. While I thought the story was misinforming, Mike Fahey, of Kotaku, was truly upset by it. If you know anything about gaming this will probably make you laugh like it did me.

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In an economic downturn ::cough::recession::cough:: people are looking to save money any way they can of course. For those who like gaming this can be a sticky wicket, so this author lays out a World of Warcraft argument that can only be described as, adorable.

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While installing World of Warcraft on my Ubuntu Linux laptop (using the WINE compatibility software), I found myself confronted by this license agreement. Ain't that a pickle? I wonder if I'm bound by the license terms now that I clicked "Agree"?

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When filling out your next job application, it might be wise to leave your level 80 Shaman off of your list of accomplishments, as some job recruiters are being told to avoid WoW players.

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Online game World of Warcraft now offers more secure authentication than nearly every online banking system the average consumer can access. Blizzard, the company behind the MMORPG powerhouse, has introduced the ability to use two-factor authentication in WoW.

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And whaddaya know, you really can move in any of 8 directions. It's 2 player, it's very silly, it has a faintly terrifying degree of attention to detail and it's incredibly difficult.

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A little over one week after launch, seeing level 80 players running around isn't such a rarity in World of Warcraft.

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When you create a character in a game, how do you choose a name? Do you go with the name randomization button? Do you just make one up right when you create the character?

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A boy of 15 collapsed and went into convulsions after playing the World of Warcraft computer game for 24 hours. The boy had seven friends gathered at his house in Western Sweden on Saturday night to play the legendary video game.

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A schoolboy collapsed and went into convulsions after playing a new version of the World of Warcraft computer game for 24 hours straight.

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Check out these costumes of the WoW fans at last months convention in Los Angeles.

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World Of Warcraft Addiction

There are 10million+ players in the World of Warcraft. There are people who play it a couple hours a day. Just for fun and to play and have a good time. Then there are others.. others who play this game for money and fun. For example. i was searching youtube on WoW addictions.

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After trying other MMORPGs like Age of Conan and Warhammer Online, many who canceled their World of Warcraft subscriptions to play these games have now come back to the land of Azeroth.

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World of Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment's lawsuit against MDY Industries is getting a little dose of bat-@!$%# insane before the case rolls to trial.

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