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Hurricane Ivan Hits Gaming Hard

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Re:WoW Beta... by ZenHarbinger · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but in all honesty, the tornado was caused by the hurricane. Ivan caused some massive (drastic understatment) tornado activity (at least in Virginia) on Friday.

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  2. WoW Beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The servers are back up and were as of 2130 PST yesterday. From what they told us in the forums the servers had gotten wet and had to be dried out properly and then powered up and tested before allowing the Beta testing to continue.

  3. SWG Galaxies data center picture by RotJ · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a high-res picture of the SWG data center that was hit by a tornado, as seen in those two cell-phone camera photos on the SWG site. I don't know why it's posted on the WoW site, though.

  4. They're the same data center by RotJ · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apparently, both WoW and SWG use the same data center. The writeup made it sound like two separate data centers were hit by hurricanes.