Happy weekend, everyone! As always, the WoW.com staff is looking forward to an exciting weekend in Mass Effect 2 Dragon Age World of Warcraft . Well, most of us are, anyway. A few lucky folks are in the Lego Universe beta, yet others are in the StarCraft 2 beta, some have been drawn back in to Dragon Age with the lure or the game’s Awakenings expansion, and a few are even playing this game I’ve never heard of called Final Fantasy

I think I mentioned about a year or so ago that I’d be moving to self-host. That day is quickly arriving, and it’s about time.

The very first time I made a character in World of Warcraft was way back during the original beta — I made a night elf. And then I logged in for the first time, and was immediately assaulted with visual eye-candy that has kept me entertained for over five years. But on top of the graphics, there was the music — something about the soundtrack just gelled the whole thing into a game I really, really wanted to continue playing

I already covered the disciplines of war and now its time to cover the remaining announced disciplines. We’ve got two more “combat” disciplines comprised of the spell-caster types and we’ve got some profession based disciplines.

A reader sent me a link to a NY Times article on the US National Broadband Plan , suggesting that this might be a “possible topic from someone with a world view” . So I’m going to talk about that, and will explain how a national broadband plan is similar to healthcare in being a form of redistribution. My apologies if that’ll sometimes sound a bit like Gevlon, only that I of course would be for redistribution, and he would be against.

In FFXIV you don’t exactly have classes you choose at character creation. From what I gather you have certain disciplines that act exactly in the same way that the class system does in most other MMORPGs we’re familiar with.

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

Blood Pact is your weekly warlock digest brought to you by Dominic Hobbs. “The time has come! Gul’dan, order your Warlocks to double their efforts! Moments from now, the gateway will open and your Horde will be unleashed on this ripe, unsuspecting world.” ~ Medivh You might think that you could always tell a demonology warlock on sight, it’s minions being bigger and more powerful, to reflect his greater dominion of demons.

S o what do you do when you hit a raid wall? Make an MS paint of the strat, of course! Who doesn’t love terribad MS paints?? Plus, firming up the strat with a cooky visual may be just what the doctor ordered.? At the very least, you hope looking at things from a different angle may help promote new ideas or understanding

FoneHome (blog) Forget World of Warcraft — TibiaME is coming to iPhone FoneHome (blog) TibiaME isn’t drawn in full 3D, using billions of polygons and all sorts of graphical filters we don’t really understand, but it is a real MMORPG that works …

The start of any expansion is a rough time for PvP. I only have two expansion packs to draw on here, but they both followed the same pattern

The Warcraft Econ Hall of Fame is a column featuring the few elite players that have hit the World of Warcraft gold cap of 214,748 gold 36 silver 46 copper. We have with us, Seata of Hulan of Moonglade-EU, who will be sharing their stories with us today

The Icecrown Citadel raid buff has been out for a week now . For the time being, it’s only a 5% buff to healing, health, and damage (and let’s not forget that it will affect damage absorption spells soon )

There was a time when I played the German version of A Tale in the Desert , and Teppy, the main developer, gathered all the players online on the server at one spot to hold a council.

The Never-Ending Game: World of Warcraft’s Impact on Borderlands Kotaku.com (blog) Those expansions have also increasingly drawn inspiration from massively multiplayer online games, like World of Warcraft , Hellquist said. …

F ulguralis brushed his robes once more in vain. Speckles of blood and grime covered him and would not be removed my mere wiping

LOLret is a post from: Aurdon’s Mage Blog My guild has killed Saurfang twice in ICC10 (normal, of course… hard is way beyond us).

A short story, in three acts. Act 1: When I first leveled Annorah, the RNG tried to tell me something. I’d leveled her as elemental, and was happily an elemental shaman, until one day in Karazhan I realized I had a full mail healing kit and 3/4 of an enhancement set – both of which were better than my elemental gear.

After letting run the free speech experiment with zero comment moderation for a week, it is time to look at the results, and draw a conclusion. Here are my observations on how the experiment went: Comment spam: You didn’t see any, I did. As I said, I did leave comment moderation on for posts older than 14 days

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.