Mashable (blog) ARG Designer Believes Online Gaming Can Save the World Escapist Magazine Think about how you feel when playing an online game like Halo 3 or World of Warcraft . Against all odds, it’s still easy to be optimistic, and cooperation … Video Games Can Save The Planet, But Only If We Play More Kotaku Australia Jane McGonigal at TED: Can Gaming Save the World

The forums, my email, hell even my voice-mail is full of QQ . “This is too hard! This is bullshit!This is imbalanced!” Now to a certain degree I can understand balancing issues and the fact that Blizzard’s matchmaking system needs a few tweaks and a much bigger player base to pull opponents from because as it stands now you have about as much a chance to face an equal enemy player as you do somebody ranked infinitely higher than yourself. But the game is far from broken and with a few minor tweaks, you can find yourself on the delivering end of the ass beating.

Rice Getting Plaudits For Teaching Video Game Design Houston Press (blog) At home he plays World of Warcraft with his three children. The online role-playing game teaches leadership, economic strategy and privacy, Warren said. ..

H ey Gang! So yeah…

Wired News Cloud-Based Gaming Still Up in the Air Wired News While I play World of Warcraft and its always-on connection, I also very much enjoy Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 w/o any internet whatsoever. …

I hate so very many things. Illogical hatred, the kind of hatred that simply consumes your entire mind in an instant inferno of indescribable rage. A rage that, if it was in a game and possessed a tooltip, would say “ATYAGI*)(&!B %GBH!@HB DAGUDY!!!JDH KAHF@NF”.

GDC 2010: Interview with Keith Lee of Booyah tuaw.com (blog) The founders are former developers at Blizzard (they worked on both Diablo and World of Warcraft before setting off on their own), and after their first app … and more??

Best Gold Guide Ever? Vote Now! Emailwire (press release) (blog) AlmostGaming.com, a World of Warcraft Strategy Guide Site, is currently running a poll where users can vote on what the best gold guide out there currently … and more??

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

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At the end of the summer last year I had this crazy idea: to make a TV show about a raiding guild. I was inspired by the relationships and interactions in my current guild and how much they impacted me personally — both good and bad

UGO Blizzard: World of Warcraft Not for Consoles Tom’s Hardware Guide If Blizzard is to make an MMO for a console, it won’t be World of Warcraft .

Blizzard’s Russell Brower Computerandvideogames.com One of our most important tools in World of Warcraft is actually silence.

The Guardian Snippets: Why there are no women in BFBC2, WoW’s hidden binary ads Gameplanet Shameless Subliminal World Of Warcraft Advertising Discovered In Gnomeregan (Kotaku) – The Matrix Puncograph in World of Warcraft’s Gnomeregan has been …

If this list can’t make you scared of MMO’s, nothing can Destructoid Cracked’s essay deals with the same sort of stuff many designers have been decrying for years — namely, that games like World of Warcraft are less …

I suppose I should start with the obvious: Death Knights. Death Knights… well, they didn’t actually do so great this expansion.

Last week’s trivia challenge produced several great answers, although no one guessed what I had been thinking about; My Pet Monster ! Still, that was only worth bonus points.

EARNINGS INSIGHT: Return of World of Warcraft to China Boosts NetEase Q4 … DigitalEastAsia.com (blog) We are committed to the continued success of World of Warcraft ®, a game licensed from Blizzard Entertainment, which is evidenced by the highly positive …

‘Twilight’s David Slade to Direct ‘The Shadow’? Cinematical (blog) World of Warcraft

As a quick reminder, Too Many Annas is (and will remain) an expansion free zone until about 3-4 weeks before Cataclysm drops . I’ll happily do another round-up post when that time comes, like I did for Wrath of the Lich King, but until then?