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Everybody Back In The Britannia
12:20AM Mike Fahey | Ultima Online celebrates its 12th birthday by inviting everyone who has ever played back to rediscover the joys of getting killed over and over again while trying to chop wood. More »
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Celebrate Sonic’s Birthday With Sega Swag
1:40AM Mike Fahey | It’s Sonic the Hedgehog’s 18th birthday today, and in order to celebrate, Sega Europe has been giving away Sonic swag all day via Twitter and Facebook. More »
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EVE Online Celebrates 6th Anniversary With Cake
7:20AM Mike Fahey | With EVE Online turning six years-old today and surpassing the 300,000 active subscriber mark over the past few days, there was really only one way for developer CCP to celebrate – spaceship cake. More »
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City Of Heroes Celebrates Five Years Of Heroism
4:00AM Mike Fahey | NCsoft’s superhero simulation City of Heroes celebrates its five-year anniversary next week, with contests and events planned to keep the game’s super-powered denizens partying Paragon City into the ground. More »
EQ 10th Aniversary Book Art Revealed By Uncomfortable-Looking Firiona Vie
3:40AM Mike Fahey | A woman dressed up as elven princess Firiona Vie stood off to the side looking uncomfortable at Sony Online Entertainment’s private CES unveiling of the EverQuest: The 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition book cover. More »
Fifteen Years Of Doom
4:30AM Mike Fahey | On December 10th 1993, id Software introduced a title that would change the face of gaming as we knew it. Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the revolutionary FPS, Doom. More »
Happy Tenth Birthday, Havok!
12:20AM Mike Fahey | Often unsung heroes of the gaming world, physics simulation, content development, and digital media service provider Havok celebrates 10 years of their logo showing up all over the damn place. More »
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The Dreamcast Turns Ten Today
11:00AM Michael McWhertor | Sega’s last stab at console dominance is now ten years old. The Dreamcast was launched on November 27, 1998 in Japan, back when global hardware launches were almost unheard of. It wasn’t exactly a success. More »
Blizzard Celebrates World Of Warcraft’s 4th Anniversary With Baby Bears
2:10PM Mike Fahey | Four years ago today (November 23rd), Blizzard threw open the doors to Azeroth and then quickly shut them, opening and closing them several times until they were sure they had enough servers to handle the massive rush of players eager to enter the World of Warcraft. To celebrate 1,460 days of lost time, broken relationships, and weight gain (and I’m not excluding myself here), folks who log into the game today are gifted with the achievement “WoW’s 4th Anniversary” and an adorable little baby polar bear to follow them around everywhere they go. More »
