The chairman of ITV says that games are evolving in a moral vacuum. Wait, the TELEVISION INDUSTRY is accusing anyone else of being morally bankrupt?

A Chinese gamer died from playing games 3 days straight. Tasteless comment overheard elsewhere: “”Shit, I hope that’s not the guy I hired to powerlevel my new character.” In all seriousness, there’s been about half a dozen of these in Asia over the years. Has there ever been one in the US? What, culturally, is the difference?

Dude sells his WoW character for $9700 bucks. The buyer may be experiencing some remorse… the character hasn’t been played since September 3rd, giving credence to rumors the character was banned.

In other news, Blizzard is looking to increase the pace of levelling from 1 to 58. Your odds of ever seeing Maraudon just went down.

Lastly, Raph’s announcing his new thingamabob today. Random prediction: half of all observers will call it brilliant, and the other half won’t understand what the hell it is. Relax, grasshopper, all will become apparent in time.