"Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities, " wrote a representative going by the name of Nethaera, on Sunday.

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Cardiff worked their way into the game but were unable to exploit a decent spell of possession in the Edinburgh half.

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Zynga may only wish to exploit its fellow game developers.

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The RMAH means that every single bug and exploit in the game can be gamed for real profit, so players are searching for them wherever they can and, more than likely, keeping them secret when they find them.

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As the game wore on, England started to exploit those spaces and gain a foothold.

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With his minimalist stroke and robotic discipline, he was like a video-game player who had found a loophole in the programming code to exploit.

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By selling a Spider-Man game through Mforma and its Chinese mobile partners, Marvel can capitalize off the phenomenon, and exploit the huge and growing Chinese cellular market, where there are more cellular handsets in use than land lines.

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