GameStop has apparently been letting their employees play the games, then selling them as "new."

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A Washington Post article that reviews a recent study released that found that 8.5% of American Youths between the ages of 8 and 18 are sho behavioral addiction to video games. It seems the study used the criteria for gambling addiction to determine if the child was addicted. Many of the statistics seem very skewed and/or questionable. A good read in general as the writer of the article tries to take a middle of the road approach instead of just quoting the study.

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Much more than an ordinary FAQ, Only-WAR.com's great editorials will take you through a guide to the released information about Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning. With information collected by OW's Staff and Contributers and The Soldier's Story written by Alluvian Est_Endrati, no other site will bring you such high class material In this Editorial we'll take a look at the RvR system, the battlefronts, zone layout, racial pairings, careers, advancement and more .The Only-WAR Editorials, Only at Only-WAR.com, the largest WAR fansite!

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very good info site for questing gear and stats

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"A Chinese student was removed from Clements High School in Fort Bend, Texas after parents complained he had re-created the school grounds in a game and uploaded the map for his friends to play. The boy was placed in the district's alternate education school and later arrested, as the police considered him a "terroristic threat". The Chinese community and the boy's mother have rallied behind him, saying the school has acted too harshly in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. No charges were filed, though the boy won't be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies." Photos of the CS map can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8082096@N02/

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Way to go Blizzard! If developers would start suing these companies, we might see less secondary market activities in game and such things would be relegated back to the slimy underbelly of the internet where they belong.

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South Korea has passed a new law called the Advancement of Game Industry Act. It goes into effect on Monday, and makes it illegal to sell gold or game items, operate bots for the purpose of farming, or hack games. Penalties are harsh: violation can land you in prison for up to five years, along with a hefty fine. You can read the English translation of the new law on the link... RMT/gold-selling in Korea will now be the domain of organized crime; how is this going to impact the world of gaming?

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Welcome to Jack Daniel's Club Elona, the hottest venue in Nightfall. How many ranks do I need to get the bunny?

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Pandora seems to understand what I like in music and play me track after track of things I've never heard before, but are now my new favorites! Tell Pandora, part of the seven year old Music Genome Project, one song you like, she starts finding other music by musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like. You can start listening to music without even registering and you get to listen about 24 hours before they ask you register. After you can just keep on listening and enjoying new and familiar music with the sounds you like.

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While the stereotype of the pathetic, lonely gamer sitting in his basement persists among some members of the media, there are some who have begun to recognize the social importance of gaming. With the advent of online gaming, and especially massively multiplayer titles, the social aspects of gaming are more important now than ever. New research from Nottingham Trent University shows what many gamers already know: gamers are actually quite social individuals. The new study found that many individuals playing MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft become good friends with almost half meeting in real life. More within...

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In a surprising turn of events, Warhammer Online community manager Richard Duffek (known on GuildCafe as Richard_EAMythic) has "parted ways" with EA Mythic. No further information as to why the sudden split appears to be available at this time, and likely never will be, considering that no details of Sanya's leaving earlier this year were ever made public.

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Read the announcement, and make a note of the bug reporting link. This Friday could be... interesting... but we're getting ready to upload all kinds of stuff, behind the scenes and in front of the scenes.

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GuildCafe is giving away Pirates of the Burning Sea beta keys--read about it here!

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Convinced that games can help them thrive some companies have turned work groups into guilds, rewarded staff with experience points when they complete tasks, giving out titles and badges when a guild finished a project and portraying objectives as quests. Virtual worlds could become key to future business life Some were also considering using a virtual currency as a reward system allowing workers to cash in their savings for benefits or extras for their office space. The top performing guilds also get to do the best projects.

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You've just got to see it.

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They sum up the new TR patch, and discuss a couple of highlights.

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We're going to celebrate every year by honoring the best player-created content: mods, maps, blogs, machinima, you name it!

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Earthrise is the name of a brand new science-fiction MMORPG, unveiled today by Masthead Studios. The game begins after humanity has nearly wiped itself out in the 3rd World War. The game employs skill based advancement and has a heavy focus on player vs. player combat (PvP).

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Call it World of Worldcraft. Amazon’s Questville, set for a late 2008 release, is a spinoff of the company’s Askville, a user-driven crowdsourcing question-and-answer service on topics ranging from everything from cars to electronics to relationships to science.With Askville, users who provide helpful answers are given virtual gold as they rise in status (called “levels”)

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