Massive Multiplayer Online Games

Yippee skippee... the big news has arrived. I'm sure many of you want to know so I'll just throw you the frickin' bone and you can gobble up the juicy news as you see fit: The draenei are the new playable alliance race in the upcoming Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft.

Wonderful.. now can I get back to playing A Tale in the Desert? Or how about Sin: Emergence?? Whoops.. that's not a massivity-spiffy hoohah... sorry, but it's a damn fine game! Support cheap episodic content!!! (Content that I own, not that I have to pay every month to pretend that I own... until I don't pay one month.)

If you're a World of Warcraft player, you should know about this nasty little bit of news. There's a trojan virus thingy floating around the Net that targets WoW specifically, attempting to harvest login info for future exploitation... neat, eh? Some people are jerks.

Have you seen Google Maps? Do you play World of Warcraft? Wouldn't it be cool to navigate around the WoW world map using the slick Google Maps interface?? Yeah, I think so too... MapWoW.com has just that. They've used the Maps API and glued in the WoW world map, along with some handy information like travel paths and resource locations. Nifty!

You can decide how useful it actually is for you, but it sure is pretty sweet. Fun to tool around different places in Azeroth as seen from the orbiting satellite, I think.

I know this is past due, since April Fool's Day is long gone for the year.  However, I missed this one from Blizzard (again) and thought it was pretty funny.  Long, but funny.  If you're a WoW veteran-type person, you'll likely find something entertaining in the "evil patch notes" for v1.11.

Oh.. and I don't want to hear whining from people saying they shouldn't be wasting time on things like this and should be working on the game... phooey!  Game developers are people too.

Freakin' suhweet!  Although this news comes a day earlier than this news ought to have been posted, I'm just too damn stoked to leave it out until the big A1 day.  Check out the finally-unveiled Alliance race for World of Warcraft Burning Crusade expansion, the Wisps.  Pretty clever, methinks.

Seriously, if you go read that and start bitching about how lame you think that decision was, you're missing a key concept about the day on which you're reading said news.  Well, unless you're reading it the day I posted this, which might lead to confusion... just come back and read this again on Saturday if you're confused.

 If you still don't understand, go read about Blizzard's new game BurgerCraft.  Got it yet?

World of Warcraft is the massive online continuation of the tremendously popular Warcraft game series by Blizzard Entertainment.  Built upon the extensive lore and backstory of the Warcraft universe, WoW is a lot of fun and is designed very well.  The questing system works great, the environment is stylistically magnificent and the game just "flows" very, very well...