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News for Lunch was scheduled to appear earlier, but was pre-empted by the News for Lunch reporters watching Russian tanks enter Georgia and promptly tangled in a traffic jam on I-75. Here you see a Russian relief convoy, which was reported to have come under attack from airstrikes

Busy all day today with meetings and, well, nothing happened yesterday. So go download Braid or something.

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

News For Lunch will technically be News For Brunch for the next few days as my lunches will be ACTION PACKED. GET PAID TO CRUSH Now you can whine about PvP balance and get paid for it. I only wish I was making this up. I’ll let Hotlunch know.

This is something new I’m going to try to impose some structure on my bloggery. I expect it to last about 3 days or so. It’s a wrapup of the day’s MMO news by noon Central, in bite-sized portions for your reading pleasure. I liked doing

One of the most anticipated features of Wrath of the Lich King: the Night Elf Mohawk. REALLY. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqJE5TH5jhc] This actually is why World of Warcraft has 11 quadrillion subscribers. (Edit: Just to make it obvious: I’m not pointing out the Mr. T

Paul Barnett on EA Mythic’s employee policies and procedures: [We] haven’t got time for people who have no morale or don’t think we’re going to succeed, and mess around in palace intrigue. Heretics must be burned publicly. It doesn’t matter how talented they are. If