Next in the cake lineup: the wedding cake of Shootmeplz and Sari of US Hakkar-H. “Image taken in Mulgore, with the cake designed to sort of flow with the image semi-seamlessly,” notes Shootmeplz. Congratulations to the happy couple!
Azeroth United, the internet media community for all things World of Warcraft, has been holding a charity drive for Child’s Play since November 1st. Hearts, Hands, and Voices has already surpassed their initial goal of $5000 and is now hoping to reach twice that by their end date of December 13th. Sunday, our very own Mike Schramm played Rock Band for 9 hours — until his fingers hurt — to raise money for the drive. Also, you can blame Syrana for all your troubles on Twitter and help raise money for the charity, just by tweeting.
If you wish to join in on the fun and support this Penny Arcade-run charity, please donate by clicking on the ChipIn link at the main HHV site, or any of the supporting sites. ChipIn was the same service that the WoWathon players used to also raise money for the hospitalized children who are the recipients of Child’s Play’s funds, toys, games, etc. The donations from this service go directly to the charity.
Hearts, Hands and Voices have drawings for donating $10 or $20 that include some really cool things like ThinkGeek gear or a Warcraft Stein. Please go check out the goodies you could win just for a small donation to a great cause. And if you don’t, well, I blame Syrana.
Once again, our friend Boubouille over at MMO Champion has been a busy boy. With the surprise announcement that the PTRs were up for the testing of the WoW Anniversary Patch (aka patch 3.2.2), he’s been digging deep into the patch files and guess what he found?
Well the big news is aptly summed up in the image above. Yes, it’s the Onyxia mount (though not actually the Broodmother herself). A picture really does say a thousand words, doesn’t it? However that’s not all he’s found by datamining. There are yet more mounts, including a Spectral Tiger cub! I suspect this little cub may well be from a future TCG expansion. After all, where did this little guy’s parent come from? Ditto the rather awesome Tuskarr kite.
On top of that there are some regular mounts in the form of a Little White Stallion and yet another dino-centric mount, this time a Little Ivory Raptor. Boubouille also found the Onyxia Whelping, which is the pet everyone who logs in during November will recieve (think the Blizzard Bear). Ain’t it a cutie?
However the oddest thing he uncovered was a collection of Mohawk themed spells. These relate to the now memorable TV advert in which Mr. T creates his own class, the infamous Night Elf Mohawk. From the spell descriptions, I can’t help thinking this is not some hint towards a new class in the next expansion but, rather, will be some kind of NPC or quest-related summonable pet. Either way, it sounds awesome.
Zoltan of Aegwynn is the guy who’s been sitting on top of the overall achievement point lists for a while, and he’s just recently cracked the incredible total of 10,000 points. At the time of this writing, he’s finished off a total of 908 out of 931 achievements currently in the game, giving him a total of 10,005 achievement points.
The Champion of Ulduar is the one that put him over the top according to his Armory profile, and strangely, he doesn’t appear to have any of the Feats of Strength (edit: never mind, I read it wrong — he’s got plenty). He is only missing the two World Event achievements left (Brewmaster and the meta-achievement, neither of which are yet possible), the Sea Turtle achievement, and then a few more Heroic Ulduar endgame points. Given that the 3.2 patch achievements will likely come out before Brewmaster, there’s no way yet to clear everything completely, but he’s as close as it gets.
Very impressive indeed. Zoltan has just one or two people on his heels, and then the numbers drop out to a few hundred below 10,000 (and strangely enough, the top five players are all EU folks). There’s no reward for all of those points (and Blizzard has no plans to offer any), but it’s quite, as you might say, an achievement.
CCP Games, EVE Online has been available for years as a download, and next month it,s making its grand return to retail store shelves. The retail box version will hit store shelves on March 10, 2009 for $35.
EVE Online
EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online game set in outer space. It debuted for the Macintosh late in 2007. The game puts you in the cockpit of an interstellar spacecraft and is a “sandbox”-style MMO that lets you do whatever you want – you can be a pirate, lead trading missions, engage in research and development, manufacturing and many other activities. There,s also a strong emphasis on commerce – the game features a very detailed trading market with commodities, skills, finished goods and more available for in-game sale.
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Despite EA’s Warhammer Online tallying 300,000 subscribers to World of Warcraft’s 11 million, ex-Blizzard boss Bill Roper has said you simply can’t write-off Mythic’s challenger just yet.
Roper, now employed by Champions Online developer Cryptic, says he is surprised to see people disparaging Warhammer’s subscriber levels, assuring: “I know many games out there that would love to have 300,000 subscribers.”
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If you didn’t know before, you know now: Galaxy Online’s alpha-test is officially underwa. The news was embargoed until a pacific time of the day and now we’re making sure you all are well aware about the alpha-test for the next EVE Online. The difference, however, is that Galaxy Online is free-to-play.
The alpha-test for Galaxy Online has probably appeared on Blend Games more often than any other game that conducted an alpha-test. No worries, though, because Blend Games’ own Andy Keener will have a write-up ready for those of you who may be skeptical about this game.
It seems that patch 3.10 for World of Warcraft, the biggest since the release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, in the last months of 2008, has just entered testing at Blizzard. Based on the previous track record of the company, it appears that MMO players will have to wait between four and six weeks, as the patch is being thoroughly tested before it goes live on all the game servers.
The biggest piece of content added through the patch will be a new raid instance, Ulduar, but the patch will come with a pretty big list of tweaks and modifications. Listing it all is pretty futile at the moment, as Blizzard is testing it so that it can make more changes, as the release date is drawing near. Still, there are some big features that are unlikely to be cut during the testing period.
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The FINAL FANTASY XI Fan Festival 2008, held last December in California, hosted a plethora of thrilling events that captured the hearts and minds of all in attendance, with the festival-closing live concert once again proving to be a runaway hit with the fans. Now, official footage from last year’s edition of the concert is available for your viewing and listening pleasure via the Square Enix Channel on Youtube!
As you may know, we have been investigating the issue of lag in Faction Warfare for a while.
We have looked at the server side of this issue, and now we need to look at the client side. This means that we need you, the community, to help us. To get accurate information on what is going on with the client, we need information from users experiencing the issues
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