Gee, boss, I'm feeling a cold coming on. I definitely won't be in to work tomorrow. What's that? You saw me at
Gamestop and/or Best Buy at midnight? I, er, well, I was dealing with a nasty bug. No, not
that one, the
other one (no worries, I'll be
compensated!). I'm quite
talented, you see. If I was in Europe, they'd already be
showing me the way to Northrend. Alas, I'm not, and I have to wait until 9pm PST. In the meantime, there are those who've been where I'm going, and have nicely
posted a review already.
posted by thanotopsis
on Nov 12, 2008 -
68 comments
The record has finally been set for an Onion article
(video, actually) to turn into
real life. It's now a real game. You can download
it. It's free.
time: about 1 day.
The subject is MMORPGS (pronounced 'more pigs') and how popular they are.
(more inside for descriptions)
[more inside]
posted by Miles Long
on Jun 11, 2008 -
26 comments
Well,
it's official. After numerous rumors, leaks, and even someone with a sharp eye for
trademark searches, it was revealed this morning with the first entrants to
BlizzCon in Anaheim, California that the next World of Warcraft expansion will be called Wrath of the Lich King, complete with new areas to explore, new hairstyles and character customizations, level 80, and the first new class to be introduced to the game since it opened.
posted by thanotopsis
on Aug 3, 2007 -
76 comments
Kotaku interviews Dez , the producer of
Whores of Warcraft (
NSFW)(
previously), as well as Mia Rose and Hannah Harper, 2 porn stars recently added to the rolls of addicted
World of Warcraft players. Apparently, Dez has at least 2 level 70 characters, and plays in a guild with Hannah's husband, where she's taken her Blood Elf Priest to level 26 already. Talking about Phat Lewt not getting you hot? How about some
Bare Maidens? (gee, NSFW, you think?). Dez also has a fascinating
MySpace page, mostly for his ...interesting mix of friends.
posted by thanotopsis
on Feb 7, 2007 -
22 comments
41 lbs in 90 days Man discovers that World of Warcraft makes him oblivious to everything in the outside world.
Man puts keyboard stand over his exercise bike.
Man loses forty pounds in three months.
Whether or not that's a healthy rate to lose weight, we'll find out later.
posted by talldean
on Nov 1, 2006 -
41 comments
WoWFilter: It's official. The Burning Crusade debuts today in Los Angeles at
BlizzCon, a company-sponsored event that is also showing off
Starcraft: Ghost. The convention has been sold out for nearly 3 months now. Surprisingly, even after selling out all the tickets, Blizzard went on to announce that
The Offspring will perform (with an opener from
Christian Finnegan), there will be a fully equipped exhibit hall, and the event will take place right next to
Disney Land. The convention opened its doors this morning, and Blizzard promptly put up the official site for the expansion. The only question that remains is: What is the new mystery playable race for the Alliance? My vote is for drunk Panda Ninjas.
posted by thanotopsis
on Oct 28, 2005 -
43 comments
A Picture is Worth 1000 Brains. Tonight, an event took place on one of the new Role Playing Player Versus Player servers for
World Of Warcraft. One of the more
eccentric guilds on the server decided to hold an event in honor of the game's official seasonal holiday "Hallow's Eve." Trading in their regular characters for level 1 zombies, they named themselves unpronounceable names (seeing as zombies lack proper tongue and jaw), gathered by the hundreds, and descended on the human fortress of Stormwind. More pics can be found
in the official WoW forums. Happy Hallow's Eve, everyone! Brains!
posted by thanotopsis
on Oct 21, 2005 -
21 comments
"Virtual Virus Sheds Light on Real-Life Behavior." A researcher at Tufts University's Center for the Modelling of Infectious Diseases,
Dr. Nina Fefferman, is studying the behavior of World Of Warcraft players during the recent plague that broke out in Ironforge (discussed on Metafilter
here.)
But Dr. Fefferman is not the first academic to study MMORPGs seriously.
Edward Castronova, an economist, arguably pioneered the field with his 2001 paper
Virtual Worlds, in which he argues that the economy in Everquest produced a GNP per capita somewhere between that of Russia and Bulgaria. (He has followed up that paper with
many more on similar subjects.)
posted by dersins
on Oct 5, 2005 -
9 comments
