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For months, hackers--most likely in China and Russia, according to security watchers--have been surreptitiously installing keylogging software on WoW players' Windows computers, hijacking their accounts and selling off their often valuable in-game assets.

If you're running World of Warcraft on a Windows machine, you may well be subject to account hacking that could result in your in-game assets being fleeced.

Puzzle Quest is one of the scariest games I've seen in years. I'm no stranger to game addictions. I've been on and off World of Warcraft three times now (permanently off now; I'm not getting the expansion and don't like raiding), and have been hooked on everything from Oblivion to Zelda. Puzzle Quest offers the kind of nightmarish addictive powers I haven't seen since Tetris DS and Lumines.

The company does acknowledge that some of its staffers who answer 1-800-4MY-XBOX, the Xbox Live customer service line, reset passwords on accounts for people who did not actually own the so-called gamer tags.

Sony Online Entertainment will soon take EverQuest fanatics one step closer to their new addiction. The company announced today that EverQuest II will start beta testing this May.

Just months after the release of EQ2, SOE is already planning to release two expansion packs per year, with the first set to hit in the second half of 2005. Expansion packs for EQ2 will be available both digitally and through retailers.

Today, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) announced a number of new changes that bring EverQuest II even closer to the final game. Since character individualization in EverQuest II has been a hot topic following the lifting of the NDA, we thought it would be a good idea to share our plan for the all-new features that are going live in the next few weeks to give a greater sense of uniqueness to players.

Targeted for release later this year by developer and publisher Sony Online Entertainment, the upcoming EverQuest II is a parallel persistent state title that takes place five centuries after the original.

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