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It might only have been two weeks since Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode One: Homestar Ruiner (*deep breath*) graced the Wii and Personal computer, but that isn’t stopping Telltale from fixing their eyes on the next similarly long-titled release in the episodic series, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode Two: Strong Badia the Free. Along with a teaser trailer they’ve also sent us a few new screens for you to check out.

This new episode will see Strong Bad organizing the local populace in a revolt after the greedy King of Town institutes an e-mail tax. That’s one cause I can certainly get behind: do you know much the e-mail correspondence I’ve with industry folk, adoring fans, and my fellow editors on a daily basis would cost if it were taxed? Let’s just say that the amount would be staggering.

Telltale has yet to provide a release window for Strong Badia the Free, but they might just be saving such news for PAX, where they’ll be giving attendees some hands-on time with the new episode.

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If you’ve ever played an MMO it’s highly probable that spammers advertising various websites that specialize in converting real currencies into virtual ones have assaulted your text window on at least on one occasion. Although this practice is rather widespread, a current report by Manchester University shows that it’s far bigger and more profitable than many of us probably realized.

“I initially became aware of gold farming through my own games-playing but assumed it was just a cottage industry,” stated research group head Professor Richard Heeks. “In a way that is still true. It’s just that instead of a few dozen cottages, there turn out to be tens of thousands.”

Due to the quasi-illegal status of their activities it was somewhat difficult for Heeks and co. to get any exact numbers, but they estimate that at least 400,000 people — with 80 percent of them based out of China — have been earning their living as gold farmers and power levelers in 2008. The sum of their efforts has resulted in a market worth around 500 million dollars. Heeks compared the scope of gold farming to India’s outsourcing industry, stating that they are “comparable in employment size, yet not at all in terms of profile.”

You might think that with such big profits coming in the workers slaving away in front of personal all day might actually be earning a decent wage. Yeah, right. The average salary is a pitiful 142 dollars a month. Sure, the cost of living might be lower over in Eastern Asia, but I highly doubt that it’s a suitable amount for someone to comfortably subsist on.

What you think about how huge these services have gotten? Is it surprising that so many MMO players don’t actually want to earn their own stuff?

Via Destructoid

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If you’ve ever played an MMO it’s highly probable that spammers advertising various websites that specialize in converting real currencies into virtual ones have assaulted your text window on at least on one occasion. Although this practice is rather widespread, a current report by Manchester University shows that it’s far bigger and more profitable than many of us probably realized.

“I initially became aware of gold farming through my own games-playing but assumed it was just a cottage industry,” stated research group head Professor Richard Heeks. “In a way that’s still true. It’s just that instead of a few dozen cottages, there turn out to be tens of thousands.”

Due to the quasi-illegal status of their activities it was somewhat difficult for Heeks and co. to get any exact numbers, but they estimate that at least 400,000 people — with 80 percent of them based out of China — have been earning their living as gold farmers and power levelers in 2008. The sum of their efforts has resulted in a market worth around 500 million dollars. Heeks compared the scope of gold farming to India’s outsourcing industry, stating that they are “comparable in employment size, yet not at all in terms of profile.”

You might think that with such massive profits coming in the workers slaving away in front of personal all day might actually be earning a decent wage. Yeah, right. The average salary is a pitiful 142 dollars a month. Sure, the cost of living might be lower over in Eastern Asia, but I highly doubt that it’s a suitable amount for someone to comfortably subsist on.

What you think about how large these services have gotten? Is it surprising that so many MMO players don’t actually want to earn their own stuff?

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The summer is a magical time for many people, but not gamers. Only a handful of must-have games come out during this period, and then we get an insane surge of good titles during the next few months.

Not long ago, BahamutZero counted the number of games he’d be buying from August 16 to September 26 and declared: “Let the ramen feast begin!” I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment.

And let’s not forget about October, which is mindblowingly packed with solid releases; we’re going to need to begin saving up, and fast.

Friday Night Fights should see more community involvement with this onslaught of amazing games, so you had ideal plan accordingly.

[Thanks, CaffeinePowered, Gibbo, insomnia, Mushman, Y0j1mb0, randombullseye, and xMalachi]

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It might not show any gameplay whatsoever, but that doesn’t keep Blizzard’s latest Wrath of the Lich King cinematic trailer from being any less awesome. The video shows paladin-turned-Lich-King Arthas wandering around his realm of Northrend with his dead father’s voice providing narration. After some contemplation on a snowy cliff, Artas summons a giant bone dragon which then flies over his assembled undead hoard.

There might not be very much action, but everything in the video looks extraordinary. So watch it. Now.

HD version available here.

[Via SilverDragon1979’s CBlog]

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