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iCatching: Visa launches card for serious geeks

Posted on 10. May, 2007 by Jonathan Cherry in Totally Whack

– Credit card mega-brand, Visa are to enter the virtual World of Warcraft and offer the time-flush gamers who populate this land of mayhem, this appropriately designed credit card.

Visa teamed up with Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of World of Warcraft, to offer a credit card
that rewards WoW players with playtime if they make a qualifying
purchase: "for each $1 spent on their WOW Visas, players will get $0.01
credit toward their $14.99 monthly subscription fee" [via]

So girls, if your date hauls out one of these to pay for your date at the Spur…run.

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- Here’s true evidence of how this whole new media thing is benefiting even the blind and deaf. NSFW – Londonist

- McDonald’s reveals their new trick to relieve you of your money as the world gears up for the new Shrek movie. Adage