ANNOUNCEMENT
July 15, 2008 - 7:49PM EST

** NOTE ** : Our hosting company has been experiencing some issues and as a result our forums have reverted back to July 9th, 2008. Any new members that joined after that date and any posts created after that date have been lost. We are trying everything in our power to try to restore our data but if for some reason we cannot, I apologize greatly. I am sincerely sorry for the inconvenience this will undoubtedly cause some of our members!!

We've successfully upgraded our message boards to the latest version of phpBB, 3.0. We are still working out the kinks so if you have tried to sign up for an account in the past few weeks and were not sucessful please try again or email admin@gamerwidow.com for additional support.

Remember: You can always join us in our chatroom, just click on Chat (to the left of this message). You can also use any IRC client to connect to irc.gamerwidow.com. Enter your username into the Nickname field, irc.gamerwidow.com into the Server field and #gamerwidow into the Channel field OR just use your own client with the above info.

Visit this page often for the latest news about the site or the forums (and in the coming weeks -- news about our CHAT!)

Thank you!

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A Gamer Widow is a term for those who have a relationship with a Gamer (one who plays video games, be it on a console or on the computer) who pays more attention to the game than to their partner....thereby making their partner a 'gamer widow' (female) or 'gamer widower' (male). In general we say 'gamer widow' and encompass both male and female community members.

GamerWidow.com is a place for all sorts of Gamer Widow(er)s to come together and discuss their experiences, learn about other 'widows' and also learn about the games that their gamers are obssessed with. Gamers who want to quit or are trying to quit or want to learn more about us are also welcome!

Some popular terms in the Gamer Widow community are; Video Game Addiction, Gaming Addict, WoWCrack, EverCrack, WoW Widow (World of Warcraft Widow), EQ Widow (Everquest Widow), UO Widow (Ultima Online Widow), CoH Widow (City of Heroes Widow), FF Widow or FFXI Widow (Final Fantasy XI Widow), CoD Widow (Call of Duty Widow), gamer, game addiction, guild, guildie, guildmates, raid, ganking, levelling, epic item, instance, toon, drop, grind, teamspeak, ventrilo.