News For Lunch 8/6/08

Welcome to today’s News For Lunch, whose motto is “it’s always lunch somewhere!

MY ZHEVRA BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD World of Warcraft discovers the secret to successful buddy programs: bribe the crap out of your existing customers. It’s an open question whether there is anyone out there who is unaware of this World of Warcraft thing, but as Damion notes, their primary target for this promotion may well be the 11 million or so people they already have, saying “hmm, I could use some twinkage for my new Gnome Deathknight”.

3 or 4 also said “I was about done with Conan anyway”.  So there’s that.

WAR IS EVERYWHEN Apparently finished with burning errant heretics in funeral pyres, and surprising at least four people, Mythic announced that Warhammer Online was launching September 18. It is fairly adept timing, since

3 or 4 also said “I was about done with Conan anyway”.  So there’s that.

THERE CAN BE ONLY SO MANY PENGUINS AND PEGGLES According to Forbes, the casual games market is bubbling and bursting, with the major portals like Big Fish demanding hundreds of watered down games and choking the revenue stream.

3 or 4 also said “I was about done with Conan anyway”.  So there’s that.

I’M A DOCTOR, JIM, NOT A PUBLIC RELATIONS FLUNKY Leonard Nimoy takes time out from taking pictures of very large women to don the Spock ears for Cryptic’s Star Trek Online …launch of hype? Does hype have its own launch now?

3 or 4 also said “I was about done with Conan anyway”.  So there’s that.

That’s all for today’s edition of News for Lunch, brought to you by Funcom’s Age of Conan and your very sweaty reporter, pictured with Kevin Sorbo.

  • http://beafraid.com hellfire

    I’ve already got 3 people lined up as my guild winds down to the pre-expansion doldrums. I’ll probably dust off the druid and huntard and earn me a fancy zebracorn!

    Plus, 3x XP at the already weakened treadmill? Damnation, if you can’t ding 60+ in short order you should check and verify that your computer is plugged in.

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    I just resubbed to WoW yesterday and today I referred my GF who is starting to play today. Three months down the road and that ZEBRA IS MINE MOFUCKA! YEAAAAH!

    keekles

  • pharniel

    so how long does that 3x and level bumpage goodness last?

    too lazy to rtfa:)

  • Michael Donnelly

    Hahahah, hilarious blog entry today. Bribe your own customers, indeed…

  • http://ve3d.ign.com/ Apache

    I liked Age of Conan because you could play it free for the first 30 days, feel like you really accomplished a lot of things, and then move on.

  • Staryx

    Wow… Really? Little over a month until WAR launches? Guess I should load up the beta and see what I’ve been missing.

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    WoW is yucky.

  • dieplskthxbai

    I r whantz a Zhebrahcorn.

    Talk about pulling out all the stops to 80…

    Makes you wonder why they bothered to raise the levelcap in the firstplace. Then again, how else would they bribe their sub base if not a ridiculous bonus to the xp and a Key West-style mount.

    Well, looks like WAR’s it for now.

    /:)

  • Drakks

    The bottom picture confuses me.. can we draw lines and circles so I can tell which of the people showing is the real Conan?