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Scott Jennings

Crunchy Bits O' News

Something for everyone today (well, unless you don’t play MMOs with levels and classes…) World of Warcraft: * It’s official: Wrath of the Lich King ships November 13. Well, that gives everyone else two more months! * During a stockholder/analyst call, Blizzard disclosed some large numbers: 11 million subscribers,

Legal Gets Their Waaugh On

Dislike the latest trend in EULAs that ‘force you to read them’ by checking to see if you scroll ALLLLLL the way to the bottom before clicking “Yes, I agree to everything you put in this tiny dialog box, including having no virtual property rights, you can ban me at

Perspective

Half of the Austin Conference Center houses AGDC this week. The other half houses refugees from Hurricane Ike. Extra Special Bonus Commentary On The Human Condition: Watching people meander on 6th Street (Austin’s pub crawl) wearing official Red Cross issued survival supplies backpacks.

A Programming Note

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Belgiumgate!

How about some Warhammer news not involving Mark Jacobs’ blog? Leave the man alone, he is allowed to blog just like the rest of us! Instead we have Tobold’s blog. Tobold is a guy who blogs about MMOs, in a fairly drama-free fashion. (This last bit differentiates him from…

The Ones To Beat

The gods are on their side!

Smashmouth

Warhammer Online moved from Closed Beta to Open Beta this weekend, and Goa, Mythic’s longtime European partners, had servers that melted under the stress. Apparently, European Warhammer players were unhappy about this. Warhammer is Quite A Big Deal in Europe, and the players who couldn’t, well, play, were