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Villainous Plots and Heroic Plans

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

MMORPG City of Heroes takes another step forward with a free update allowing players to design their own missions and story arcs to share with the entire City of Heroes community.

Players will be able to use an intuitive interface to create their own missions from the ground up by determining details ranging from environments, mission objectives, and enemies, to written fiction and character dialogue – giving their stories nearly infinite depth and personalization.

Please see below for screenshots, or visit the official webpage.

This free update is scheduled for release in March 2009.

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World of Warcraft legal battle

Monday, March 31st, 2008

World of Warcraft logoThe makers of popular online game “World of Warcraft” are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.

Blizzard is suing the creator of the “MMO Glider” program claiming the software infringes the company’s copyright and potentially damages the game.

In its legal submission to the court, the firm said: “Blizzard’s designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time.”

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