Both World of Warcraft and Age of Conan have announced imminent plans to open shop in Russia.

Age of Conan announced that they will ship and support their game in conjunction with 1C Company (who is the marketing genius there?) and will roll out AoC in the fourth quarter of 2008. Age of Conan has launched and topped the charts in more than 17 countries including Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, but they realize localization is a key ingredient to increase and maintain its customer base.

Not to be outdone, World of Warcraft will start its servers in Russia next week (August 6th). Those playing on European accounts will have the option of playing on the new Russian servers including a free transfer.

For more information, become fluent in Russian and then peruse the World of Wacraft Russian website.

And for information on the Age of Conan release in Russia, you can read the English version at Funcom's website.

Dell has just released two new World of Warcraft XPS laptops with Horde and Alliance designs.

which are sexy enough for me , cost $4,449 at the starting price tag.

However it also comes with a World of Warcraft backpack filled with goodies. A free WOW printout of your online character, invite to the next Blizzard beta, exclusive in-game rare item, along with a few more items.

LOL,they are sexy right ,so let's save our money to buy one of these

of course if you have enough money ,u can buy both :)

you can check out for more detail about them at Dell.com

xmas is coming ,what will you guys do  on chiristmas eve LOL ?play games online or date with your GF/BF or have dinner with your family

As for me ,ill spend my night online cos one of my female prentice will marry in game with some handsome guy ,i have to join it  :)

best wishes to my cute prentice ,hope she will have good time in game

now return back to the topics lol i have found some interesting(weird) ss about WOW let's enjoy them

hey ,wat's hell ! i'm dead =.=

waiting for thousands of  years LOL

i'm naked

whose axe ,LOL

hmmm.it's unconvenient to add pic in bolgs --! ,so click here to find more if you're interested :)

When you play a Massive game, are you escaping the real world?

what you guys are playing mmorpgs for ?

do you wanna escape the real world or do you just want to try another live style opposite to your real life ?

or you just want to kill the free time cos u dun not how to waste ?LOL

All the above similar questions asked by well-known Virtual Worlds researcher Edward Castronova  in his new book Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun is Chaning Reality.

"What I tried to do in this book is say, 'listen - even if the typical reader doesn't spend any time in virtual worlds, what is going to be the impact on him of people going and doing this?'" And he predicted that everyone will be involved in a virtual environment within ten years - although the level of that involvement will vary.

"A father of two spending 90 hours a week in a virtual world because he doesn't like his wife - I would say that's escapism, and it isn't anything you would say is good. "But if it's a heavy-set girl from a small town who gets victimised just because her body isn't the 'right' kind of body, and she goes online to make friends because she can't get a fair shake in the real world, then I w

Recently Ign has released its Top 100 Games of All Time for 2007 .

i have browse all the game listed in this Top 100 Games,and to my surprise d it seems that only one mmorpg made the cut - World of Warcraft

WOW came in at a dismal rank 83 --! and there is not any other mmorpgs in the list

.no Ultima Online ,Ever Quest,GuildWars,no Lineage II,no nothing. 

IGN Editor : Our criteria for creating this list of our picks for the Top 100 Games of All Time are as follows:

• Eligible games had to have been released no later than December 31, 2006 (perspective is a good thing)
• A number of factors were taken into consideration when selecting a winner: How good the game was compared to others of its time, its overall game design, how well it stands up over the years, how influential it has been in the realm of gaming and just plain how much fun we had playing it are all points for contention.
• The list is comprised of single, stand-alone titles and doesn't include compilations, expansion packs or add-ons.
• Titles with multiple editions such as collector's boxes, gold editions or direct re-releases have been consolidated into one single entry, with the edition deemed most deserving taking precedence.

Today Blizzard announced a new premium service to allow users to change their characters' names:

But how can you begin to ennumerate the changes? As Jensen, who works at Spacetime Studios for her dayjob, explains, a particularly data-hungry World Of Warcraft forum-goers has "...listed every class change made since the beginning of recorded history (i.e. early beta), and he’s categorized it by buffs, nerfs, bug fixes, changes, new features, and overhauls." Jensen has crunched that all into a very interesting set of graphs, showing that, for example, the Warlock has the most changes, but the Druid has been buffed the most in Blizzard's gameplay tweaking.

In comments, 'Scott' provides some useful color: "So, the biggest problem is that there’s no relative weight to the buffs/nerfs, so the nerf to Dire Bear armor in 2.0 is assigned the same weight as no longer being able to teleport to Moonglade while in tree form. Of course then you start having to assign subjective weight", adding: "The real interesting data points you’re missing are of course