The video embedded above, WoW.com’s Lich King Tutorial , marks the arrival of Jerome Phillips (also known as Vodka’s Kinaesthesia) to our team. He has a lot of talent and a lot of ideas, so we’re happy to have him. You’ve probably seen some of his work before, most notably his trailer for Patch 3.3’s Frozen Halls

Today we feature the last of the European winners for Alienware’s Rise to Power contest. A Dead Bug’s Life is the creation of Erunno and Frozen DeathKnight , two of the luminaries who regularly post over on the Myndflame site. You should remember Erunno from his outstanding work with The White Drake , a movie that helped redefine visual storytelling in Wrath of the Lich King machinima

Here at WoW.com we’re on a Daily Quest (which we try to do every day, honest) to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW -related links from around the blogosphere.

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

Michael Gray is feeling a little under the weather, so I’ve kidnapped his column. He can have it back in exchange for his puppy . Moving on, we’ve got one of the winners of the Alienware Rise to Power contest who’s name should be familiar — Baron Soosdon , who’s delightful works such as T for Thunderfury , No Point: Stretching Time , and Sex, Gnomes And Videotape: So I Went To France have been featured before here on WoW Moviewatch .

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.

The Raid has almost reached it’s donations goal and has come out with one of it’s first videos to help boost interest for that last leg!…

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 .

The Shadow of Dawn was the entry to Alienware’s Rise to Power from Blackhand Pictures. The story is essentially about a human Alliance member who gets sucked into the Lich King’s web of tyranny, only to eventually be freed by Tirion Fordring at the Battle of Light’s Hope Chapel. The video is absolutely gorgeous

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

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?” .

Perennial pariahs Goon Squad , Horde-side on Mal’Ganis-US, have really carved out a niche for themselves in the World of Warcraft. Well, two niches. The first is a rock-solid reputation of being the foremost trolls and griefers in the MMO market, period — a reputation perpetuated by a community that operates mostly on word-of-mouth and lovingly crafted by the guild itself

Wowcrendor ’s back with another installment of his satirical How-to series. This episode is focused on the wide world of crafters and gatherers, with How To Win At WoW Professions

The ROFLBear Promo is a short, promotional video for Myndflame’s upcoming ROFLBear series. It’s a brief advertisement for their new daily machinima show, to help get the word out that ROFLBear will be starting soon in the spring. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Myndflame is the mad-scientist machinima house behind the Illegal Danish series

My Sifu used to tell us at training. When you eat. Eat.

First of all, a well played hockey game by team USA and team Canada. I had a sinking feeling in my heart before the puck dropped that this would not be an ordinary game and it wouldn’t be quite the clean sweep as I hoped it would be

It’s hard to judge exactly how many players know about GM Island. Some of the older players will remember the flood of trade chat and guild chats whenever a GM was online and visible in GM Island, and those folks who like to mess around with private servers and unexplored places will have at least heard of its existence.

Pangoria Fallstar sent me an interesting link to a video from DICE 2010 , where Jesse Schell extrapolates from Facebook games to a future where every one of you actions comes with experience points: Brush your teeth in the morning, +10 points. Brush them for longer than 3 minutes for extra points, and of course further extra points if you brushed them all week