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.

So March 17th is Whiney Post Day according to Klepsacovic so here is my whine. Mwhahahaha I get to Whine 1st ( or get to be one of the first whiners.) See international time difference has it’s advantages

Alright folks – time for another Ask Anna question.

I was going to write something deep and meaningful here but because I don’t have a vagina it just didn’t feel right. Spooncraft has been around for over two years now and I have you all to thank

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.

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

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 .

WoW plushies are awesome . Sometimes they come with in-game pets. Sometimes they mrrgl in your mailbox

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! Sword of the New World: Let’s get political GamersFirst’s achingly pretty MMO import Sword of the New World, n?e Granado Espada, is getting new content in its Political PvP system, allowing players to “run for office, control the colonies, and be a tyrant” in the SotNW universe’s bizarro-America. Battlestar Galactica MMO on its way to your browser TV space opera Battlestar Galactica follows in the footsteps of that other popular space show and gets its own MMO — right in your browser

Every week, we broadcast live from several places worldwide (several rooms, anyway) to present you with the WoW Insider Show podcast — an hour’s worth of WoW community discussion, covering everything from the week’s top stories here on WoW.com to emails from our readers to what’s been going on with our particular characters in Azeroth. Along with your hosts, WoW.com editor Michael Sacco and contributing editor Matthew Rossi , we also feature rotating guest hosts, whether regular WoW.com contributors or personalities from other sites

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

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 .

Tonight I finally knocked out one of the tasks I’d been meaning to get to for months… a WoW links page . I’m sure I probably missed a couple sites, but the ones I mentioned are the few I have stored in my short term memory.

Frostheim’s put together a fantastic analysis of hunter set bonuses in his Scattered Shots column over at WoW.com. For those of you curious as to which set bonuses to go for, this is a must read

In the past weeks I only made some passing remarks on two stories which caused a much bigger uproar on other gaming sites: The Allods item shop, and the new Ubisoft DRM. There was loud complaining about Allods making items for cash “necessary” to play, and them being too expensive. And even louder complaining that Ubisoft DRM was robbing the players of fundamental rights, by requiring them to be always online to play

Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the Rogue class. This week, we discuss the upcoming patch 3.3.e changes, and what they mean for subtlety.

Pocket-lint.com New NVIDIA ION Netbooks Deliver 10x Faster Graphics and Up to 10 Hours of … MarketWatch (press release) It supports streaming HD video on sites like YouTube HD, and smooth gaming performance on titles like World of Warcraft and Spore. …

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

I had a revelation last week. It’s one I’m not afraid to share because I suspect there are a lot of players in the same position as me. That position is peering out from round a corner with a bemused grin and crimson cheeks, watching the macro users of our raid do ten things at once while showering the raid in light and laughing at the boss

Image is courtesy of Brian Hough. Kind of a fun title, no