Hurricane Ivan Hits Gaming Hard

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 21, 2004 @05:55AM from the pinballs-are-people-too dept.

Hurricane Ivan's US landfall has affected gamers across the country. The World of Warcraft Beta is still down this week while the data center it's housed in is dried and brought back up. Star Wars Galaxies also experienced outage due to adverse weather conditions. And many thanks to Leon Kiriliuk for alerting us to the Pinball Association Notice that "two-hundred thirty two classic pinball machines and some rare video games were destroyed, including an extremely rare Tattoo Assassins prototype and a sit-down Omega Race!" Update: 09/21 02:33 EDT The World of Warcraft Beta is back up and running with a new patch.

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Re:slashdot mindset by mrseigen · 2004-09-21 06:22 · Score: 2, Funny

It's Omega Race. I'd throw you into a woodchipper for a sit-down unit.
another delay by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 06:30 · Score: 5, Funny

motherfuckers will use this to delay hl2 again
Patch? by isorox · 2004-09-21 07:23 · Score: 3, Funny

Update: 09/21 02:33 EDT The World of Warcraft Beta is back up and running with a new patch.

So this patch makes it immune to hurricanes? Wow, that's some funky coding!
Reporting live from Canada by MachDelta · 2004-09-21 08:18 · Score: 3, Funny

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