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Team Fortress 2 Non-cheaters Get Halos
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Valve and the Team Fortress 2 Announcer do not take kindly to unscrupulous behaviour. That’s why nefarious TF2 players who cheated their way toward securing unlockable hatwear will be stripped of those items. The good guys, however, will be rewarded. More »
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Dragon Quest IX Already Being Hacked
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Tomorrow in Japan, Dragon Quest IX is going on sale. But there is already at least one player who has conquered the game — by cheating. More »
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Cheater Gamercards Will Be Marked
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Cheating is bad! Microsoft wants you to know it’s dead serious about discouraging users from doing underhanded things to beef up their Gamerscore. More »
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Paragon Comes Down Hard On City Of Heroes Cheaters
5:20AM Mike Fahey | City of Heroes players who exploit the new Mission Architect in order to power level their characters will soon find that crime doesn’t pay in Paragon City, even if you play a villain. More »
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Some Guy Gets A Blizzard-Only WoW Item, Goes On Rampage
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | A World of Warcraft subscriber has accidentally been given a powerful in-game item normally reserved for internal testing. And what’d he do with it? Why, he used it. More »
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Infinity Ward To “Eliminate” Cheaters In Call Of Duty 4
1:00PM Luke Plunkett | Call of Duty 4 has had its fair share of cheaters over the past 18 months, but if Infinity Ward’s claims are to be believed, then their “days are numbered”. More »
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Gears 2 Achievement Cheaters Nabbed, Gamerscores Eviscerated
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | Xbox 360 Achievements are serious business. But obtaining that sweet Gamerscore nectar via nefarious means (like gamesave tampering) isn’t worth the effort, as shown by Microsoft’s sweeping smackdown on Gears of War 2 cheaters. More »
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Cheat At Killzone 2, Lose Your PSN ID
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Like any other popular online shooter, Killzone 2 has its share of cheaters. And, like many other popular online shooters, the developers are prepared to take drastic steps to stop said cheating. More »
Eidos Caught Block-Voting On HYPER Awards
11:57AM David Wildgoose | Eidos are understandably fans of their own games, but perhaps they’ve gone a little too far with this public display of affection. Australia’s only multi-format games mag HYPER has called out the smitten publisher for constantly voting for one of its own titles in the publication’s Game Of The Year awards. More » 
Pros And Cons Of WoW Powerlevelling, Part 1
10:00AM Logan Booker | Pros and Cons of WoW Powerlevelling, Part 2
Pros and Cons of WoW Powerlevelling, Part 3
We usually don’t post this sort of content on Kotaku AU, but this was far too interesting to pass up.
As you might expect, the author has asked to remain nameless. The piece has also been edited for clarity, readability and flavour.
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By Anonymous
It was after I quit World of Warcraft that I made the decision to powerlevel.
Not me personally – that would defeat the purpose. The whole point of powerlevelling is for someone else to do it. They do the hard work, you reap the rewards. Even if those rewards aren’t exactly tangible or alluring to the opposite sex.
When I quit, I’d been playing WoW on-and-off since its release in November 2004. Just like everyone else back then, I couldn’t wait for Blizzard’s very first MMO. Before WoW, the only other MMO I’d invested significant amounts of time in was PlanetSide.
It was hardly an MMO, though. For one, it didn’t have elves. Every half-decent MMO has to have elves. Without them, PlanetSide was but methadone compared to the sweet hardcore opiate that is World of Warcraft. And, like nine million others today, I shot up regularly.
But time has a funny way of, well, moving forward, and I soon realised that all those hours spent playing WoW I could have been doing a bunch of other things. Productive things. Things that weren’t just slowly incrementing numbers in a massive database.
And, for a time, I managed to pull away from its siren call. But WoW’s like a drug, right? More » 
