Prime those weapons because GA 1.2 is live and there are a number of new features added with this latest patch from Hi-Res Studios. New items and features in this patch include: 4v4 ARENA QUEUE: The 4v4 Arena Queue is for pre-made teams of four players, and offers two new maps built specifically for 4v4 combat

I’ve been enjoying my most latest mini-break from blogging, but it didn’t take long for the writing itch to return. I’m a weak, weak man and I have far too many opinions to keep bottled up inside. I’ll be getting back to full time blogging soon, but for now I’m mouthing off over on Twitter to try to familiarize myself with the application.

Following a recommendation from Cuppycake , I reactivated my dormant Facebook account and started playing My Tribe . As I said in my previous discussion of Facebook games , I recognize the power of the social engineering tools used for games like Farmville, but didn’t like that these games were so lacking in actual gameplay. There isn’t really much gameplay involved in apps like Farmville or Mafia Wars, it is just clicking to get rewards, plus incentives to give money to the game company and to invite your friends into the game.

Want to get Gold Capped ? This column will show you how, and is written by Basil “Euripides” Berntsen, also of outdps.com , the Hunting Party podcast , and the Call to Auction podcast .

WARNING : This post contains spoilers for Cataclysm, the upcoming expansion to World of Warcraft.

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how, but do you know the why

H ey Gang! So if you’re like me, you’re probably so burned out from running the Daily heroics that your brain has exploded all over your keyboard. Spontaneous Combustion! BAM! The situation that most everyone’s still in is a couple of different things: A) You still need Frost Emblems for gear B) You still need Triumph Badges for gear C) You have absolutely nothing else to do with your time D) You are a masochistic person and enjoy the pain that it brings because it makes you feel alive Well, what ever combination you’re situation is right now, you still need to force yourself to run them. Most of the time, if you bring a buddy, it makes it 10x better

Cataclysm Stat & System Changes Quote from: Eyonix ( Source ) As many of you know from panels at last year?s BlizzCon and posts here on the forums since then, Cataclysm will bring about major changes to familiar character stats such as Intellect, Armor Penetration, Defense, and others, ultimately designed to make the effects of stats more easily understandable and make gear choices more interesting.

Bill and I had a rare games day yesterday which, as always, started with a ritual gorging on an orgy of food at Denny’s, and then graduated into a game of the new Axis & Allies (which I’m hoping Bill will review on his site ) before moving into a few rounds of Panzer General: Allied Assault , a game that I received for my birthday last month. Click to enlarge Panzer General is an interesting collaboration between Petroglyph Games and Ubisoft. The World War II strategy title was co-developed for the Xbox 360 (XBLA) and meatspace game market.

Times Online World of Warcraft facts put in perspective Geek.com Online Schools published a rather humorous fact sheet, documenting the way the World of Warcraft has transformed from an MMORPG to “a world all its own. … The women finding love in the World of Warcraft Times Online Warcraft Wednesday: How to Pick Up Women in WoW Complex.com (blog) all 3 news articles??

Times Online The women finding love in the World of Warcraft Times Online As Innocense, she plays the most successful online role-playing game yet: World of Warcraft . With 12 million players worldwide, an entire episode of South ..

We talk about ‘games’ a lot.. but at the core what is a ‘game’ really? It turns out that defining ‘games’ is not an easy thing to do.

A few weeks ago when I was abruptly dragged away from home for a business trip I went looking for a game to play in my hotel room in the evenings.

‘Dante’s Inferno’ and the rings of pop culture Los Angeles Times (blog) “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” hits theaters May 28, and ” World of Warcraft ,” “Missile Command” and even “Asteroids” are among the gamer brand names … and more??

Want to be a sultan of swing healing? A champion of Chain Heal? Totem Talk : Restoration will show you how.

At this point, we’ve reached the Keepers of Ulduar, who have been driven mad by the whispers of Yogg-Saron. Guess whose job it is to knock some sense into them

In the past couple of weeks both Evizaer and Wolfshead have featured articles on the topic of immersion in video games, however neither writer’s definition of the phenomenon rang particularly true to me. As a term, “immersion” is bandied around by gaming pundits when discussing games to describe a mash-up of factors that range anywhere from a “realistic game world” to an “extremely engrossing gaming experience”. The two aforementioned articles illustrate these usages wonderfully: Immersion is a state when the player or spectator (in the case of plays and motion pictures) temporarily suspends their disbelief and willingly transports themselves into the realized world of the creator

Icecrown Citadel Hard Mode Videos Hard modes were unlocked last week and guilds released a couple of videos, there aren’t a lot of them out there for the moment and I’ll start with Deathbringer Saurfang, Blood Queen Lana’thel, and Lady Deathwhisper. Blue post – Cataclysm Goals Quote from: Ghostcrawler ( Source ) I think some of you are misinterpreting a couple of the Cataclysm goals.

Between beer, Wild Turkey Honey Liquor ( which is yum – and my local bottle O sells it!) a yummy Bavarian breakfast and lots of rain I did a few randoms, and some Pvp this weekend. Why was I still subjecting myself to the torture, because well randoms = gold /badges/cloth/De mats – and I needed the gold I can get from all of them because I needed to buy Primordial saronite to buy the pattern for the Leggings of Woven death, and then 8 more to make them. I was buying them at 1.7k off the AH

We’ve talked about the sublime, unknowable joy of the Moonkin in previous Moviewatch installments. There’s something wonderful and subtle about these creatures.