US Federal Communications Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate, speaking to the Practising Law Institute, has revealed that one of the top reasons for US students to drop out of college is because they’re addicted to online games including World Of Warcraft.

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Will there ever come a time when World of Warcraft isn’t utterly dominating the Massively Multiplayer scene? Now just a couple of days short of its fourth birthday and getting on a bit in gaming terms, WoW is going stronger than ever. Developer Blizzard reveals that the latest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, sold 2.8 million copies in just 24 hours.

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A Swedish teenager collapsed after an extended World of Warcraft session. The 15-year-old boy had been celebrating the launch of the latest WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, by inviting friends to his house for a 24-hour marathon bout of gaming. He suffered an epileptic fit caused by a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food and prolonged concentration on the game, doctors said.

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While for children, this Halloween seems to be all about either pirates or skeletons, for gamers the day is set to be a brain-eating feast of zombies.

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Blizzard, the developer behind eagerly anticipated realtime strategy title Starcraft II has denied accusations from fans that they are trying to extract more money from their pockets by releasing the game as three separate episodes.

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Stop playing World of Warcraft now. Do you hear us? Stop it. If you continue, you’ll be heading towards a life of grinding misery and weekends spent in fields in the company of lunatics. Don’t believe us? Then check out this new documentary.

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