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Completely Free MMORPG That.. *gasp* DOESN’T Suck!

How many of you are World of Warcraft fans?!

Woo!! WoW! Alright! Yeah!

Right?

No. Piss off, this isn’t for you.

My roommates and I have recently gotten entrenched in the 100% Free-to-Play MMORPG Runes of Magic. To the fresh eye, it is most definitely a World of Warcraft clone. However, among many smaller differences (compared to the following), there are two important details about this game that make it pleasantly deviate from WoW.

First: It’s FREE!
Second: It’s FUN!

I know I know. WoW has.. god.. too many players. I have no clue how many but I know it’s a lot. That means it can’t be all baaad, right?

Baahhh

I DID play WoW for quite a while and I’m not unfamiliar with it. While it had its entertaining moments and it was ‘pretty’, I was overall unhappy with the gameplay. That was before factoring in that I was actually paying to be disappointed – just to be cool with all the other WoW players lol. Combine those and you’ve a quick-mix recipe for a waste of money.

I do enjoy the MMORPG scene, just not most of the games. I played Ultima Online for probably close to a decade and have yet to find a game that’s held my interest so well (that’s right, I just said UO is more fun than WoW, EQ, EQ2, GW, etc etc) – until now. Runes of Magic is FUN for me and I don’t have to feel a sense of urgency about it because every minute outside of gameplay is not wasting my money.

It does, of course, have options to throw real money into the game in exchange for ingame stuff, but it’s all very balanced and you are not held back at all by never paying any real money. I’ve not paid a dime into the game so far, though I might buy some diamonds later =D. There’s no benefit you can buy with cash, that you can’t get ingame via fair means.

This is NOT a paid advertisement. I’m still pretty new to the game myself but I thought I would share this with you. In these financially tough times, who wants to waste money on mediocre entertainment? Even if this game sucks to you, you’re not out any money =D. If you give it a chance though, I think you will be pleasantly entertained. Development also continues constantly on the game, so it’s always getting better =).

Clicky! – http://us.runesofmagic.com/us/index.html

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IMDb launches free films and TV service

From: brandrepublic.com

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LONDON – The internet movie database has launched a service that allows users to watch full-length films and popular TV episodes on its website for free.

Visitors to the popular Amazon-owned site will be able to watch hit TV shows such as ‘Family Guy’, ‘Heroes’ and ‘The Office’ as well as viewing the first episodes of new and returning shows and TV classics such as ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Bewitched’.

IMDb is also opening its site to filmmakers and rights owners worldwide by allowing them to upload their films on to the site.

Col Needham, managing director of IMDb.com, said: “We’re excited to offer our users a simple online experience. Our goal is to show our users every movie and TV show on the internet for free on IMDb.com.”

IMDb is the web’s most comprehensive source of information on movies and television shows. The site is designed specifically for entertainment industry professionals, enabling actors and crew members to promote themselves directly to IMDb’s audience.

For web surfers it is probably best known as the arbiter of many film and TV trivia questions the answers to which can be found in the site’s comprehensive film and TV credits.

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This is definitely quite interesting. It looks like it’s mostly a bunch of clips of TV episodes, but there are definitely some full episodes. As well, there are several movies available to watch.

I recommend keeping your eye on this. I’m sure they will have LOTS more movies/TV episodes for your FREE viewing pleasure =).


To get started, check out the Video section at IMDB.

http://www.imdb.com/features/video/

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