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EVE Online Boss Grovels For Forgiveness After A Summer Of Fiascoes
Wracked by boneheaded decisions involving game expansions and the sale of virtual goods, EVE Online’s community has been in an uproar for several months. The outrage was so loud that the game’s publisher has prostrated himself begging forgiveness, with a 1,500-word self-flagellating unconditional apology.
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‘Swatting’ Sends Cops To Xbox Live Mod’s House
Cops in Sammamish, Washington, are super pissed after being sent to a home here by a 911 call claiming someone inside had claymore mines and hostages. The caller turns out to be a prick seeking revenge on an Xbox Live moderator.
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Nintendo Files Trademarks For "Wii U" But Doesn’t Own Wiiu.com
Our good friends at Fusible note, somewhat wryly, that while Nintendo’s gotten around to filing patent applications on the Wii U it’s lacking ownership of the wiiu.com domain. The console by that name is due for sale sometime in 2012.
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Second Time’s The Charm In Xbox Live SWAT Griefing
Instead of bogus pizza deliveries, sending a SWAT team to your door appears to be the hip new griefing trend in online gaming. Earlier this month we told you about a gamer in Eugene, Ore. who answered the doorbell to a police raid, thanks to some douchebag he met in FortressCraft. Now it’s happened to…