Anarchy Online (AO) is a science fiction themed massive multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG). The first three expansion packs, Notum Wars, Shadowlands and Alien Invasion, have received high praise and won 20 international awards.
Step almost 30,000 years into the future, to an age where common surgical implants and microscopic nano-bots can relieve most forms of human suffering... or transform any normal being into a weapon of destructive force.

On the planet of Rubi-Ka, a battle rages between the haves and have-nots in a time when the clans seek liberation from the all-powerful Omni-Tek corporation in the name of justice, voluntarily if possible; from the barrel of a gun if necessary. The leaders of both sides are desperately seeking a solution that can stop the violence ravaging the planet, against a backdrop of betrayal, military raids and conniving political games, cyborg assassins and modified humans.

You are 30,000 years into the future. You're in the age... of Anarchy Online.

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Links: http://www.anarchy-online.com/

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Durham, USA – February 20th, 2007 – Funcom announces that ‘Anarchy Online’, the award-winning massively multiplayer online game set in a sprawling science fiction universe, is now under new leadership. Long-time ‘Anarchy Online’ devotee and Funcom Community Manager Craig Morrison has been appointed as the game’s new Game Director, picking up the torch passed on by previous Game Director Morten Byom who will occupy a new position at Funcom.

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Funcom announces an extension of the completely free and play-all-you-want offer in Anarchy Online until January 2008. The free offer was a major MMO first when originally introduced and to date almost one million players have registered a free account in ‘Anarchy Online’, making it one of the most successful western MMO games of all times.

The expanded free offer now not only extends the opportunity to play the most heralded sci-fi MMO for free, but also include the award-winning ‘Anarchy Online - Notum Wars’ giving free players the chance to take part Player versus Player combat.

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Gordon Ross, CEO of Genuine Games, has a vision for tapping into that elusive female market. His small Scottish game company has its sights set on creating non-violent, family friendly game content that's easy to understand and easy to play. His goal is to make games the casual gamer (target market being ages 8-25 but includes all ages and both genders) can pick up and have fun with for a short time without a big time commitment.

The company's publishing a series of vocational simulations under the title of YooStar publishing, that he hopes will draw in a whole section of the public who currently doesn't play games. The first title, "Fashion Salon" is what you'd expect in a girl game; it's pink, it's got a simple interface (almost childlike actually in simplicity) and is extremely simple in concept. You get to make the "clients" over in a very simple way; makeup, hairstyle, hats, etc. by clicking on big pink buttons. There's unfortunately no way to do more complex alterations like say changing body type or a character's facial structure. You are then graded according to the level of success achieved through the makeover. And how is success determined?

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"Advertising is the art of arresting the human intelligence just long enough to get money from it."

Chuck Blore, a partner in the advertising firm Chuck Blore & Don Ruchman, Inc., quoted by Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Sixth Edition, (Beacon Press, 2000), p.185.

Is advertising part of the ignorable landscape, or is my dwarven paladin going to be doing quests for Pepsi?

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