Hurricane Ivan Hits Gaming Hard

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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[El]

Who cares aboiut hurricanes? Hey I don't care about people getting killed or billions of dollars in property loss...

Oh my god, I can't play starwars online!!! And pinball machines were destroyed! This is a real disaster!!!

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[Apiakun]

I for one welcome God^H^H^H our new hurricane wielding, tornado producing, flood generating overlord.