Welcome friends on World of Warcarf blog. Today, EXCITING NEWS!!! Blizzard annouced new expansion for World of Warcraft “Last chance for Azeroth”.

This expansion will be connected to massive attack of Burning Crusade on world of Azeroth. Flames, destruction and last chance to save Azeroth from cruel Burning Legion + new terrible force from other dimmesion. I  don’t know much about new classes and stuff, but I heard that they are working on new special heroic class called Fanatic. This class ..read the full article

So I finally caved in, after not playing for a few weeks. I’ve been sick with some kind of nasty stomach flu and off work for the last 4 days. Thus, feeling sorry for myself earlier in the week, I rolled a Choppa.

FOTM ftw.

Of course, the same could be said for the reams of Slayers you’re seeing on Order right now. I don’t think I’ve seen so many dwarves in one place before… ever. Reams and reams of those crested, frothing, red-haired, tattooed midgets running around, ..read the full article

Microtransactions. There, I said it. A dirty word to some in the gaming industry. Or maybe just misunderstood and poorly implemented?

There’s a commonly-shared belief in the gaming marketplace that games with no monthly fee that are microtransaction-supported are unpalatable to the “serious” MMO gamer. Microtransactions, which offer an alternate (or additional) form of payment to the traditional subscription model, have been looked down upon for a long time, the general sentiment being that they encourage spammers, gold farming and sales, real-money ..read the full article

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been out in Austin, TX for the last few couple of days for SXSW Interactive ‘09. I’m still here, just getting caught up on the goings on of the MMO world while I’ve been away.

Apparently I’ve been seriously out of the loop since I got here, as I completely missed mention that WAR is closing 63 existing “source” servers across North America/Oceania (43 servers) and Europe (20 servers via GOA) and merging ..read the full article

Welcome on my World of Warcraft blog. It looks like with the Arena tournaments swinging into action, I’ve some Arena based hot-fixes + new features scheduled for 3.1.

- Well, they think we have finally found the root of the DC issues as well. Sadly, these are code fixes so they cannot go out as a hot-fix. They are however, in 3.1.0.

- Hotfixed that stops Warlocks from exploiting Demonic Circle in the starting tube of the Dalaran Sewers Arena.

- Modified the ..read the full article

Just a quick note to let y’all know that I’m going to be away for the next five or six days at the 2009 South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, TX. My other project, Protagonize, is a finalist for the web awards in the Community category, so I’m going to be down there hopin’ for one of them shiny statuettes. Wish me luck!

Interestingly, there’s a whole lot of gaming and community-related presentations happening between the Interactive festival and Screenburn, so ..read the full article

If you’re anything like me (i.e. overworked, totally stressed out, and in your early 30s), and was a gamer back in the ’80s and early ’90s, you probably played a few games in the Zork series. 

Infocom’s Great Underground Empire captivated the hearts and minds of old-school PC gamers back in the very early 1980s, moving from their glut of notoriously well-written text adventures, to full-on graphical masterpieces in the 1990s. The group of MIT students who formed the original developer, ..read the full article

Dictionary: fence sitter n. Informal. One who takes a position of neutrality or indecision, as in a controversial matter.

Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m a fence-sitter. Every time I see a negative post about Darkfall Online (err, the easiest to find are probably over here), I see something positive written about it a day later. I was convinced not to try the game… and then I was convinced to give a shot. Hell, even half the commenters over here aren’t overly generous when it ..read the full article

Okay, so I’m shamelessly stealing this topic from Tobold, but I noticed it in a recent post on his blog and it got me to thinking about the current state of healing in MMOs.

Back when I was a kid, I remember playing hockey in the gym at my elementary school. We had a pretty small class, 12 or 13 kids in my grade, so we were actually in a split-class most of the time, with two grades merged into one classroom. ..read the full article