Oh where has the time gone?

Welcome to The Lawbringer, wow.com’s weekly feature on the intersection between World of Warcraft and the Law. I am a third year law student acting as your crossing guard and trying not to get run over myself

As you know, today was maintenance day and the background downloader is downloading more data for patch 3.3.3 .

Ultra-nationalism, having lead to two world wars, isn’t everybody’s favorite philosophy. Except, it appears, for media companies. On the one side you hear a lot on how the internet is propelling us into a bright new future, where broadband access allows us to access all sorts of media anywhere and how we like

The tenth annual Game Developers Conference is in full swing in San Francisco, CA, and our sister sites Joystiq and Massively are on the scene! No matter what kind of games you’re into, there’s a ton of news on its way out of the convention, and we’re compiling some of the stuff that might matter to you in daily roundups just for you.

WoW Mastery System: A Big Change for the Talent Tree MMORPG News Summary: World of Warcraft’s background downloader was available again when I ran the game’s client this morning. Titled Mastery System, it is the first ..

The tenth annual Game Developers Conference is in full swing in San Francisco, CA, and our sister sites Joystiq and Massively are on the scene! No matter what kind of games you’re into, there’s a ton of news on its way out of the convention, and we’re compiling some of the stuff that might matter to you in daily roundups just for you. If you want the whole GDC news experience, check out all of Massively’s and Joystiq’s coverage, or yesterday’s roundup .

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly look at the world of the death knight. With Patch 3.3.3 on the PTR and looking closer and closer to going live , the buzz around death knights is just about where you’d expect it to be, squarely on the frost talent tree . This is especially true of frost DPS

Admit it. You like loot as much as I do. Maybe you oggle over stats on a new shiny with a calculator and spreadsheet at hand

The background downloader has gone active tonight with a 77.5 MB partial file for the Patch 3.3.3 patching process. Don’t expect the patch to go live tomorrow, of course (if nothing else, scheduled maintenance isn’t long enough), but it looks like we may be within a few weeks of some nice new patch goodness, including the rise of DK frost dual wielding , Frozen Orbs , and the abolishment of battleground marks

The background downloader has gone active tonight with a 77.5 MB partial file for the Patch 3.3.3 patching process. Don’t expect the patch to go live tomorrow, of course (if nothing else, scheduled maintenance isn’t long enough), but it looks like we may be within a few weeks of some nice new patch goodness, including the rise of DK frost dual wielding , Frozen Orbs , and the abolishment of battleground marks .

The WoW Insider Show podcast broadcast this Saturday, and your hosts Sacco and Rossi welcomed UI/addon columnist Mat McCurley on the show to talk about Cataclysm’s big stat overhaul and the latest authenticator attacks, as well as answer some reader emails and talk about chest hair. Get the podcast: [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the WoW Insider Show directly in iTunes. [ RSS ] Add the WoW Insider Show to your RSS aggregator.

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

Well if you haven’t heard – Miss Medicina has a started up a Bloggers and Blog readers guild on Argent Dawn her post Single Abstract Noun is recruiting Stateside has all the details Of course I rolled a priest.. While I really don’t need a 4th ( I have ex-twink still as #3 on my home server Dath’remar I didn’t have the heart to roll something else. I even added Flag Rsp2 a Rp add on to play with .

In the vein of the World of Warcraft magazine, Massively reports that NCSoft has announced a magazine for the MMORPG Aion. Unlike the quarterly World of Warcraft magazine , the Aion magazine will be digital-only and come out every four weeks, or roughly every month. The Aion magazine also features bonus in-game items for players who pre-order, such as armor dyes and consumables.

Patch 3.3.3 Mounts Patch 3.3.3 introduced a couple of new mounts and I think it’s time for a recap! Celestial Steed The Celestial Steed is probably the most impressive mount of his patch, it looks like a mix of Invincible and Algalon. I’m not really sure where this mount will drop for the moment but considering how cool it looks, I wouldn’t expect it to be widely available.

Game Guru (blog) Annual Report Indicates Activision Erred Firing CoD Creators Gamespy.com Activision states: For example, our top three franchises, Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and World of Warcraft , accounted for approximately 68% of our net … Activision’s Revenues Mostly Based Upon Three Properties Shacknews Guess Which Three Games Help Keep Activision Afloat Kotaku.com (blog) 03-02-10 Three games keep Activision-Blizzard afloat2 Fragland.net Blast ?- Headlines News (blog) ?- Destructoid all 15 news articles??

The WoW Insider Show podcast broadcast this Saturday, and your hosts Sacco and Rossi welcomed lore columnist Anne Stickney and UI/addon columnist Mat McCurley on the show to talk about the crop of exciting news harvested from the Twitter dev chat , as well as the fuzzy, lovable, entirely clever WoW plushies . Get the podcast: [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the WoW Insider Show directly in iTunes. [ RSS ] Add the WoW Insider Show to your RSS aggregator

Game Guru (blog) Activision’s Revenues Mostly Based Upon Three Properties Shacknews For example, our top three franchises, Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and World of Warcraft , accounted for approximately 68% of our net revenues for the year … Guess Which Three Games Help Keep Activision Afloat Kotaku.com (blog) Three games keep Activision-Blizzard afloat Fragland.net These Three Games Make Activision All Its Money Blast Destructoid ?- GamingExcellence all 13 news articles??

Just a quick update from from our friends at World of Raids about the current situation regarding circumvented authenticators .