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Malware targeting gamers gets some mainstream spotlight

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Those vicious and despicable malware authors are targeting gamers, according to BBC. I know, big whoop, right? The news article reports on something many World of Warcraft players have known for years -- that viruses, phishing sites, trojans, and all those dirty tech terms have us gamers smack in the middle of ...

Where are the Wolvar and oracle orphans as data-mined by MMO Champion?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Where are the Wolvar and oracle orphans as data-mined by MMO Champion? Did they make an appearance anywhere?

Legends for free until March 17th

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

March 17th marks the release of Volume 3 of the Warcraft: Legends manga series, and Tokyopop is offering a pretty slick deal to build some hype around it. As of March 6th, Tokyopop has started putting the entire series thus far online to read for free, one chapter per day ...

Are disenchanters getting robbed by rolls?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Sardonis sent us a note the other day, with an interesting, if probably controversial, point inside: when we're in instances, Skinners take their skins, Miners take their ores, and Herbalists take their herbs (or of course they rotate around if there's more than one). At the end of the instance, ...

Warrior and DK threat bug hotfixed

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/14/warrior-and-dk-threat-bug-hotfixed/ My own Death Knight is not quite up to raid tanking yet; I've got a few more levels to go on that one. However, some players have noticed that DK threat, especially on single targets, seems a bit low - significantly lower than the other three tank classes, to ...

Blizzard employee offering a lifetime pass to raise money for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Here's a cool way to donate some money to charity and have a chance at probably the best prize a WoW player could want. Katherine Allen (our own Michael Sacco, formerly known as "Belfaire," says she's a friend) is raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and she's offering ...

Winter Veil Merrymaking

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/26/breakfast-topic-winterveil-merrymaking/ So, for those lucky enough to have today off, I'm sort of wondering if anyone's awake yet to read this topic. After all, I'm sure a good portion of us drank so much eggnog and ate so much roast beef, turkey, or your other meat or non-meat of choice, ...