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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Dope enters an MMO

The game Achnea has introduced a virtual narcotic called gleam:

Achaea characters who take gleam get hooked quickly -- suffering typical addiction symptoms: violent vomiting, shivering, irrational sobbing, begging for the drug and even overdoses resulting in death. Some of the game's players are angry about gleam's introduction into their world.

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