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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Cheater who? Cheater me?

After reading the article “Can Video Game Cheating Be Prevented?” by Brian Bergstein and Matt Slagle , I smiled sitting in my office chair. Am I a cheat? I really never cheated on exams in high school, didn’t cheat much in college, didn’t have a game genie or shark, never could […]

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Monday, October 1st, 2007

Is Google trying to take on Second Life

It appears that Google might be testing a new metaverse application based around their google map data.Acording to an article over at TimesOnline, Google is giving Arizona State University students the opportunity to test a new product “that will be publicly launched later this year”.
An announcement by the university, which already has significant ties […]

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Monday, October 1st, 2007

Free Power Leveling from TheUnknownGamer

The Unknown Gamer is accepting Articles related to World of Warcraft and other MMORPG topics in exchange for Power Leveling. In short we will level your world of warcraft character for you while you are off doing other things, and for payment we want your articles. The better the article the longer we will level […]

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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Wow Power Leveling

WoW Power Leveling is the topic at hand, power leveling historically was achieved by having a player in a game that is a much higher level than you, walking you through aspects of game play that you would not normally be able to survive in. These power leveling efforts were scaled with the overseas leveling […]

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Friday, September 21st, 2007

PlaySpan - 6th Grader Secures $6.5m for Virtual Goods Software

PlaySpan, a newly founded company located in Silicone Valley has aquired $6.5m in VC Funding with the help of Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures. The company says it offers game publishers a technology that lets users make payments and shop for other items. It calls itself the first “publisher-sponsored in-game commerce […]

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Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Banned Warcraft Account?

Win a Level 70 World of Warcraft Account.

Lay all your banned accounts to rest in the new WoW Graveyard.

Yep you read that right, The Unknown Gamer is creating a Grave Yard and filling it with Banned & Retired Accounts but we need your help.
What have you been doing with your Banned World […]

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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

The Philanthropic Branding Adventure

The Unknown Gamer today completed their first of many T-shirt Giveaway’s.
GOALS

Interact with our local community
Offer Shirts to people in need of shelter
Generate content for site.

Overview

This marketing event was a blast, we blew thru our boxes of shirts in about 30 minutes and were greeted with many thanks. You might be lucky enough to catch […]

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