Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 - hard drives. Those shipped from a particular distribution center have been found to be infected with a very basic virus hidden within the hard drive itself, or perhaps its within the installation utilities? Regardless this virus is targeted to record the username and password information and to send that data off to a server located someplace in China. The information reports that this was a small run of drives originating from a company and distribution center within China, which has already had the distribution haulted, however they report that there were some shipments that did make it to the general public market that are likely to be infected, and they implore people to be safe and update your virus security.

This virus is specifically targeted at gamers of the following games:

• WSGame
• 91.com
• QQ
• Woool
• rxjh.17game.com
• TianLongBaBu
• AskTao
• Perfect World (Wanmei Shijie)
• World of Warcraft

Click Here to read the information released by Seagate.

Tune in tonight from 6 PM - 9 PM PST for further discussion about the FFXI Fan Festival 2007 taking place in Anaheim, California this week! Hosts Exodus and Pikko will be taking question suggestions for the developer session that Allakhazam will have on Friday morning at the festival.

We will have two guests for the second segment of the show from the BlueGartr linkshell on Bahamut: Sonomaa and Rocl.

Discussion will also include talk about the history of cosplay and it’s continued popularity in the US.

All three Mog House hosts will be attending the Fan Festival and we will be broadcasting each day live so be sure to stay tuned for the show times!!

For those of you who have been tuning into the Ravecast or if you are subscribed to our newsletter, then you’ve already heard about the guests who will be joining The Ravecast’s hosts this Friday.

This news bit is for those of you who haven’t heard. 2 representatives from VestGame Entertainment will be joining the show on Friday to talk a bit about their upcoming MMORPG: World of Kung Fu.

The two guests joining us will be Kris “Luxun” Doane, Executive Producer and Dave “Sunjian” Clarke, Producer from VestGame Entertainment located in Shanghai, China.

Be sure to join the Ravecast’s hosts, Leonai_art and Luxx on Friday evening starting at 6:30pm.

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No Dellmon For YOU!!

 Sorry folks, Dellmon and Zanadi were really hoping to bring you news and happenings from the lands of Kunark today, but due to some patching and downloading problems we are unable to bring you your weekly fix of the Dellmon.  We hope to have issues under control and fixed very soon and we’ll see you Next Tuesday with an all new Kunark-rich show filled with Sarnaks, Rhinos and Burynai’s.

As part of an upcoming series, we will be interviewing EverQuestII Role Players.. the subject of these interviews?? Your Faith in your chosen Diety.. WHY did you chose your diety? What do you get out of it? Was it Role Play or did you decide based on the rewards?.. or BOTH??

Please, if you wish to participate in this discussion live on the air.. leave a message at the Kithicor.Org forums and we’ll arrange for your interview!

Don’t worry, I plan on interviewing a variety of people, and sometimes there will be more than ONE chosen for each diety.. so if you listen and think.. well, that’s not why “I” chose to follow that diety.. don’t sweat it, you could still have a chance to come on the show and voice your opinion!

There are 2 major schools of thought that stand out in game development. There is the school of thought that pushes technology along and forces people to upgrade their computers, and there is the school of thought which says that it makes better business sense to build a game which people can play without having to upgrade their computer hardware. Both sides have incredibly valid points. What is your opinion?

The Ravecast airs every Friday evening from 6:30 - 9:30pm Pacific Time

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Podcasts - Be sure to check out the podcast recordings for our previous shows. Also, if you’re an itunes fan, our main Online Gaming Radio podcast listing is finally updating again, so please check it out!

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So I started reading a new blog lately that caught my eye after he linked to us. I’ll admit it - I didn’t know his blog existed until he linked to one of my blogs, but that’s besides the point.

Now that I know about his blog, I’ve started reading through some of his past stuff, and I’m sucked in. His points are strong and even if I don’t agree with everything he says, he still has a point on his opinion which I can respect.

Well he’s decided to split up his blogs between 2 sites now. Crazy people, don’t you have better things to do with your time but to blog on various websites?! (Granny voice-out) but apparently I have too much time on my hands because now I’m reading both sites.

So he just posted a blog regarding the format wars between blu-ray, hd-dvds, etc. Even if you don’t know much about the background of these, the blog is fun and interesting to read and you seriously should check it out.

…Anyway, however it happened, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are both destined to fall by the wayside in 2-3 years. Neither has cornered the market, and all the talk about “the format war” is so old and common that people have grown tired of it. Most of your potential customers are ignoring you now. And the ones who are still paying attention aren’t going to buy while they can only buy half the movies they want on either format…

Click here to read the entire blog.

Inbabble is reporting an interview with Matt Turetzky regarding the various games being released on their incredible success with mobile gaming. First notable mention brings local OGR amusement due to it’s name, Luxor 2. It is a shame that our very own Luxx doesn’t even use a cellphone, so he’s not even able to get in on the fun of playing a game which is so close to his own name.

So what’s new at RealNetworks as far as games go?
Turetzky: We are very excited about our three new mobile games launches this Q4. Coming first, in October, was Luxor 2, our second game based on one of the best selling PC games of all time. The Luxor brand has been downloaded over 60 million times on the PC and we are very pleased to be able to bring it to mobile gamers. We launched the first Luxor mobile game last year and it was our best selling game of 2006. The new version features all new levels and power-ups and much sharper design and effects, thanks to the capabilities of the newer handsets.

The interview is quite informative and interesting regardless of their website fubars. You should seriously check it out and see what they have to say regarding the mobile gaming industry. Click Here to read the full Q&A.

Technorati Profile - We’ve had postings on Technorati due to other websites actually linking to our items, but we haven’t had our own profile on there… until now!

So this news post is primarily here to claim our ownership of OGR so we can start getting information populated to the community that visits technorati.com

Though the publisher for City of Heroes/City of Villians has always been NC Soft, the actual developer stayed in the hands of Cryptic Studios… until recently.

A FAQ was posted on Cryptic Studio’s website outlining the specifics of the how and why of the finality of the sell and its complete creative control moving to the NC Soft developers.

How did Cryptic Studios arrive at the decision to sell City of Heroes and City of Villains to NCsoft?
When we considered the future of CoH/CoV and the future of Cryptic Studios, we had a difficult decision to make. We’ve invested a lot of time, effort, talent and passion into the games, and we care about them. But we’ve got a lot of other ideas we’re excited about too.

Ultimately, we decided that selling to NCsoft was the best and right thing to do for the CoH community. CoH/CoV will be in good hands at NCsoft, and the transition will be as seamless as possible. With this move, we now have complete creative freedom and the resources we need to develop new games.

To view the entire FAQ, click here.