When Making your Own Game Isn’t an Option

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What do you get when you cross outright copyright infringement and a complete lack of imagination? World of Lordcraft, that's what! This game looks to be for real, as the game's website talks about an open beta — and yet, it couldn't be more of a rip-off of everyone's favorite Blizzard title starring orcs and humans [via Technabob]:

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The site doesn't offer a ton of gameplay details, but it looks like it might lean more towards the top-down RTS Warcraft formula. More than likely, the "developers" of this game will have to deal with some major Blizzard aggro before they actually make it to release. It also doesn't help that the trailer is narrated by what sounds like a 12-year-old with a frog in his throat.