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TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft and a Microsoft Coding4Fun Project. With it, you can send/receive Tweets, upload screenshots, and even AutoTweet in-game achievements!

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Nielsen Games released its March 2009 data for top console usage and PC game titles with Playstation 2 and the role-playing game World Of Warcraft again topping their respective lists.
Top 10 PC Game Titles: March 2009
RANK Game Publisher Avg. Min Per Week
1 World of Warcraft Blizzard Entertainment 653
2 Second Life Linden Lab 760
3 Dark Messiah [...]

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Sims 3 iPhone Debut

EA Games is now shipping a iPhone version of its popular The Sims 3 game. The game takes full advantage of the iPhone’s multi-touch screen capabilities allowing players to change views with ease.

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Habbo, which see more than 11 million unique users each month, today released its annual Global Habbo Youth Survey Brand Update. The study, says Habbo, explores teens’ connection and interests toward individual brands and highlights their preferences in categories including consumer electronics, music, sportswear, and games. On the game/virtual worlds front, Runescape maintained its number [...]

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Microsoft has unveiled for the first time to the public their “Project Natal.” This is the code name for a revolutionary new way to play with no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak, you [...]

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In 1997, the computer gaming company 3D Realms announced its new, upcoming game, Duke Nukem Forever. Based on the popular first-person-shooter format, the game promised to be a fun-filled, action-packed extravaganza of dark humor and bloody mayhem.

Sadly, the bloody mayhem came in the form of a bloodless winding up of the [...]

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In its recent press release Sulake Corporation, the parent company of Habbo, the world ‘s largest virtual world for teenagers, announced it has broken all previous records with sales 20% up in December 2008. As a result the company reached an annual revenue milestone of 50 million Euros (74 million USD) leading to profit; [...]

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Abandon Interactive Entertainment has released three trailers for their upcoming virtual game, Freaky Creatures.

Players customize their Creatures using a variety of parts and powers before taking them online to battle their friends. Players are awarded Creature Credits, which can be redeemed at the Creature Club Store online to purchase additional parts, [...]

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Soccer fans who want to be part of a virtual worlds can join Football Superstars, a Massively Multi-player Online Game (MMOG). Football Superstars takes the player through the life of a footballer, from grass-root kickabouts to the pinnacle of premier football and international stardom.

The player assumes the role of a single [...]

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At the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Noshir Contractor and his colleagues presented the results of a study based on almost 60 terabytes of data from EverQuest II, a popular MMORPG. The aim of the 90-minute symposium, “Analyzing Virtual Worlds: Next Step in the Evolution of Social Science [...]

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