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.

This is another entry into Alienware’s Rise to Power contest. Farinar Presents: Oswald’s Amazing Story of EVIL! is the story of a squirrel in Elwynn Forest who is tired of the abuse he receives from passing adventurers. After seeing a campaign poster for the king of Stormwind , the squirrel decides to take steps to defend itself in the future.

As I mentioned before, last year I received a special invitation to play Alganon in beta, and to tell the developers my opinion about that game. I told them that they were copying WoW too closely, which would never work with the budget they had, and that they would have to do something to differentiate themselves from WoW, either in the business model or the gameplay.

We were just talking about it on today’s podcast (thrill to the sound of three people barely awake trying to coherently discuss World of Warcraft ) and hey, look, Ghostcrawler reads my mind from across the interwebs. Well, okay, no, he responded to a forum thread, but it’s still interesting

GDC 2010: Ngmoco justifies the freemium model tuaw.com (blog) There’s a whole black market that exists in World of Warcraft where you can buy a level 80 character for hundreds of dollars. There’s this market where ..

Work Warning : This video has WoW models in their underwear, and sexually suggestive themes. I Play as a Chick is one of those videos that come with amazing coordination and collaboration between artists. Yumfries , Sharm , Wick , and Tradechat got together to create this epic piece of work, and the final product is absolutely amazing

Sometimes you’d like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? It’s not all WoW, all the time! Our sister site Massively can provide you with everything you need to know about all of the other MMOs around, past, present and future.

In the open Sunday thread Nils asked “Would you like to speculate on the nature of Blizzards new MMO?” .

Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Build 11643 A new build has been deployed on test realms. So far it doesn’t look like there are a lot of changes out there but stay tuned, test realms can be full of surprises! Pets / Mounts Lil’ XT finally got its own model, the name is VERY similar to Lil’ K.T. and it wouldn’t be surprising to see this pet appear on the Blizzard Store at some point.

In the open Sunday thread a reader asked whether there was any connection between Tamarind founding a new guild for the blogging community and Gevlon founding a new ganking guild. Obviously the two guilds couldn’t be any more different from each other, Single Abstract Noun is a social guild, while Gevlon posted extremely anti-social guild rules .

The Care and Feeding of Warriors is about exquisite little bejeweled eggs crafted by master craftsmen over a painstaking six year period. Or maybe it’s about angry dudes in plate armor hitting things

Recent In-Game Fixes – March 2010 – 3/4 Some of these changes have been around for a while apparently, during the latest PTR update I saw Blood Nova getting a 16 sec cooldown and the duration of Emerald Vigor was increased from 35 to 40 seconds. Instability ’s duration has been reduced from 8 to 5 seconds

In any discussion concerning botting, farming, hacking, or gold-buying, someone inevitably makes the argument that Blizzard should cut out the middlemen and sell gold to players themselves. I wanted to use this article to explain why this would not necessarily be a good idea. We don’t need to get into the legal situation , or examine why assigning a real-world price to in-game currency edges us closer to a world where in-game property can be taxed

We just received this mouth-gaping footage of the celestial steed mount in action.

WARNING : This post is chock full of spoilers.

Update – Updated the PTR Build info. Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Build 11623 A new build has been deployed on test realms, a couple of things have changed! As usual, these changes are from client data comparison and shouldn’t be considered as final until they hit the official patch notes

Hot from the latest patch 3.3.3 PTR updates are some stunning images contained in the data files. We don’t know where you can get the above pictured Celestial Horse — a lot of people are speculating about its location, but no one knows yet. First up is the Celestial Horse you see above: Celestial Horse 1 Celestial Horse 2 Celestial Horse 3 Celestial Horse 4 In addition, they’ve been tinkering with existing “tigon” models, the catwoman/catman models used for various Troll-related bosses

Well, the devs have recently announced the stat changes for all classes in Cataclysm . Surprisingly, retribution paladins are going to be the model to which some other specs are being changed.

Where in the WoW is George? is the result of a Masters project focusing on machinima. We don’t know much about the project’s requirements, so it’s impossible to evaluate it in terms of that assignment.

Icecrown Citadel Zone-Buff is here The optional zone buff in the Icecrown Citadel is now available and will make the instance easier for whoever wants to use it. The buff currently increases total health, healing done and damage dealt by 5% but higher versions are in-game and will probably be activated later . Strength of Wrynn (5%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (5%) Strength of Wrynn (10%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (10%) Strength of Wrynn (15%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (15%) Strength of Wrynn (20%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (20%) Strength of Wrynn (25%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (25%) Strength of Wrynn (30%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (30%) On a sidenote, the amount of limited attempts for end-wing bosses has been increased to 35.