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| Friday, August 5 2005 |
WoW females
Only half the female characters on WoW are actually female players according to MTV.com (like we didn't know that already :P). Check the article out here. |
WarCry database
WarCry have launched a WoW DB which *might* actually have a chance to compete with ThottBot (I really stress the might though, ThottBot rules!). Check it out here. |
| Saturday, August 6 2005 |
Virtual exchange rates
News.com have published an interesting article about exchange rates between virtual assets and real world money, check it out here. |
| Sunday, August 7 2005 |
Greymane
A few days ago Blizzard added a new PvE realm in North America - it's name being Greymane. |
| Monday, August 8 2005 |
Fan Art Contest
BlizzCon are running a fan art contest with prizes including BlizzCon tickets. It's not limited to WoW but nothing is as awesome as WoW anyway. Full details here. |
| Tuesday, August 9 2005 |
WoW Cultural References
This has been around a few months but it's the first time I've seen it (we didn't get WoW till February so I wasn't scouring the news back then), it's a list of WoW cultural references and easter eggs, check it out here. |
| Wednesday, August 10 2005 |
Twin Onyxias
That's crazy talk! But Boomtown.net have published a video they say is a bug that causes two Onyxias to spawn, check it out here. |
Darksorrow.net
For players on the Darksorrow EU server, help kickstart the community discussions over at DS.net, the new unofficial community for the server. Visit it at Darksorrow.net. |
| Thursday, August 11 2005 |
Two extra days for Europe
Due to the maintenance and such, Blizzard are handing out two extra days to everyone in Europe, at least for players who's accounts were active last weekend. |
Most useless addition
What is the most useless addition so far? Meeting stones perhaps? The speech bubbles above people's heads? Darkmoon Faire? Over on Turalyon.com there is a discussion about it, check it out here. |
| Friday, August 12 2005 |
Haumarush
A new PvP realm is coming to Europe next week named Haumarush. There is also a new German PvP server named Terrodar on it's way. They should launch during the weekly maintenance on Wednesday. |
| Saturday, August 13 2005 |
Haumarush community
The server may be 4 days away from launching but you can already join the community discussions for the server at the newly launched Haumarush.com. |
Arathi Basin Battleground
This has been knocking around on WoW.com for a while and now Gamespy have a big feature on it which you can find here. |
| Sunday, August 14 2005 |
New official stuff
Blizzard have released a new MP3 called Human 1 which you can download here and they also have an interactive map on the site too! Check that out here. |
| Monday, August 15 2005 |
WoW Europe back
Should have mentioned this yesterday; I think it was Saturday that the WoW-Europe homepage was down, back up now though. |
| Tuesday, August 16 2005 |
Murder afoot
Slashdot have a crazy rumour about some guy murdering another guy in Korea over a sword, full story here. |
| Wednesday, August 17 2005 |
New server is live
The new Haumarush server is live and very busy. Within the first minute of it going online there were 600 people in the que! Might be best give it a week or two before starting your character. |
| Thursday, August 18 2005 |
Amusing article
Here is something amusing :P. The Inquirer have published an article about a WoW player who also plays WoW. You can find it here and the relevant forum posts here. |
| Friday, August 19 2005 |
Jason Hayes
Jason Hayes is the composer for WoW and IG N interviewed him for WoW Vault, you can find it here. |
| Saturday, August 20 2005 |
WoW trading cards
Oh yes. Upper Deck Entertainment are making a trading card game based on WoW. Presumably for people who can't afford the actual game ;). They will be out next year according to the official website. |
| Sunday, August 21 2005 |
1.7 patch notes
Dame Chaos have published patch notes for the upcoming 1.7 patch, check it out here. |
| Monday, August 22 2005 |
Character transfers
Blizz are ending character transfers today at 3 pacific time. Last chance as they don't plan to open any more for the foreseeable future. |
| Tuesday, August 23 2005 |
Transfer time extention
Blizzard have extented character transfers until 3pm pacific time today (rather than ending yesterday). |
Major EU banning
WoW-Europe has announced they have banned over 1500 accounts for cheating and violating the ToS. |
| Wednesday, August 24 2005 |
Chinese blocks
According to an article here the Chinese government are blocking players from spending more than three hours on WoW at one time. That is really going to suck as it takes you longer than that to get through a lost of the instances. |
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