Here’s a new shame that may put every gold buyers face into a frown for the end of this years holidays, China is imposing a tax law for gold farmers. To us that would create a huge impact as we all know roughly 70% of the gold acquired are from China. This would create a huge price leap for currencies of almost all games. As always, we will do our best to keep that down to a minimal or we’ll have to find new sources to supply you the gold at the price you deserve.

Successful online video game players and Internet surfers in China have found ways to make real money from virtual assets. Now China’s taxman wants a piece of the action. The State Administration of Taxation said on its Web site Wednesday that China will impose a personal income tax of 20% on profit from virtual money. The announcement, which was distributed to local tax bureaus, specifically takes aim at those who buy virtual currency from gamers and surfers and sell it to others at a mark-up. Taxation officials are granted the right to determine the original price of online virtual currency if the individual fails to provide proof of an original price, it says.

For the original post see http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/10/31/real-taxes-for-real-money-made-by-online-game-players/

WAR gold is now available for sale on most US servers. The current price for gold is averaging about $1 per gold. EA Mythic has recently announced the #s of gold sellers they have banned and we are happy to say, we haven’t lost any. We promise to do our best to not disrupt game play while farming the gold we provide. Another guarantee that we’ll offer is we’ll NEVER spam you. We are gamers as well and we hate getting messaged with ingame spam over and over.

The Lich King invades stores on November 13th, 2008! Retailers throughout the world are accepting reservations now for the next epic chapter in the World of Warcraft experience – Wrath of the Lich King.

Looks like Warhammer has really put a dent into World of Warcraft subscriber base. EA Mythic has already sold over 1.5 million copies to retailers in North America, Europe and Oceania. That is even before the official release of the game. This has been by far the largest amount of copies sold pre release. Not to mention WAR will be going to more than just those 3 regions listed, don’t forget Russue, Japan, Taiwan, and China are joining the WAR in early 2009. We are looking for a population not too far from World of Warcrafts current 10 million population. We believe Warhammer will have a very good chance to take down WoW.

Yesterday the head start program for Warhammer Onlines collectors edition has officially started. Tomorrow the 16th, all regular pre orders will join the head start and on the 18th, the game will be publicly open to everyone. I hope some of you guys are enjoying the game as much as I am, at least for those who have pre ordered the collectors edition.

We’ll soon have gold avaible for WAR so be on the look out. I would expect approximately 2 weeks from now we’ll be fully stocked and ready to go.

Most gamers like you and myself probably have never read credits to developer information other than the main publishing company itself. Well, to others, especially those have participated may mean quite alot. If they have spent years into the development of the game, they would expect some sort of quote in the credit. An anonymous former developer has recently left the company before the release of Warhammer is looking to take legal action for not receiving credit for the work contributed in the past. Here are some replies from Mark Jacobs himself.

“I think the credits belong to the people who have been working on this game non-stop, whether they’ve been with us for a week or whether they’ve been with us for three years.”

“If we set that precedent right now, that anyone who worked on the game at any point in time is going to be in the credits, the credits will be 20 pages long.”

“If all the game companies agree on [a standard for credits] — on that day, I’ll be thrilled.”

For the full story and interview visit MTV’s blog.

The blogosphere is abuzz with recent revelation that the United States Federal Government is spending our tax dollars to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games. That’s right, that undead priest that just healed you could be a Fed.

A blog on Wired by Ryan Singel broke the story on February 22, 2008, (U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft) and it has been repeated around the blogosphere ever since. I first saw it on TechRepublic’s sister Web site, Gamespot. It is called the Reynard Project.

Now, heaven knows, the U.S. Federal Government is no slouch when it comes to wasting tax dollars, but when I first saw this I took it to be a hoax. But it is not a hoax — although the government should quickly claim it is to save face.

Here is the pertinent excerpt from the data-mining report from the Director of National Intelligence:

• The cultural and behavioral norms of virtual worlds and gaming are generally unstudied. Therefore, Reynard will seek to identify the emerging social, behavioral and cultural norms in virtual worlds and gaming environments. The project would then apply the lessons learned to determine the feasibility of automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world.
• If it shows early promise, this small seedling effort may increase its scope to a full project.

Now, come on — this can’t be real can it?

ON Networks is a provider of online TV. It is one of the largest networks available today and it now features World of Warcraft on one of their many fine programs. On Warcraft is hosted by Arwen Lietz and Marc Majcher who will bring you some of best tips you can find on the net. What makes it so perfect is that their content is in video format. They explain things in full details and will go through many instances and dungeons to help you trash out the mobs and bring you some of the best loot you can get in the game. Explore many new strategies and techniques and become a World of Warcraft pro. They provide standard videos and high quality for viewers with fast connections.

Blizzard has just announced the winners of the Blizzcon 2008 ticket drawing. 1,500 random fans has been chosen. Congratulations to those who participated and best of luck on the next contest. For the drawing FAQ and informaton click here.

I wanted to make a note that many games that we used to provide service for has been removed. Some of the games had became really old and lacked players or the currency has became unavailable for us to supply. The games we no longer support includes; Eve Online, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Guild Wars, Hellgate London, Maple Story, Mythos, Pirates of the Burning Sea, RF Online, Star Wars Galaxies and Tabula Rasa.

I do apologize if you are one of the many fans. We hope to see you guys in the future upcoming games such as Warhammer Online which is set to release on the 18th of September. If you already have preordered the collector’s edition then you should already be playing the game and enjoying a new adventure. With the knockout of many old MMORPGs, it allows room for us to focus our attention and provide you with better service, quality and pricing for the current games we still support.