Former Infinity Ward CEOs sue Activision
Mar 5th
Some of you may know about the “former” part, some of you may not. For those who don’t know: Jason West and Vince Zampella, the former CEO’s of Infinity Ward, creator of the popular video game franchise Call of Duty, were fired a few days ago and kicked out of the Infinity Ward headquarters on allegations of “insubordination” and “breaches of contract”. There are a few rumours flying about the, for obvious reasons, Activision and the former CEO’s aren’t disclosing much info on what is simply pure speculation. Read on for more details, you can also check out Kotaku and get up-to-date on the scandal.
Computer wants me dead: Must go.
Feb 24th
TradeMe is an auction website for New Zealand, it’s where people who live in NZ can buy and sell things in a similar fashion to eBay. Over the course of it’s existence there have been some rather wacky auctions posted on TradeMe, just like their have been on eBay. This, however, has to be the weirdest yet most entertaining auction I have ever read. The photos that coincide with it have also been done extremely well (except where text is involved, however).
I know some of you might not like extremely long reads, but I found this so amusing I actually want the damn computer now, just for shits and giggles (yes, I did bid on the auction lol). This is a long read but it’s rather amusing. Everything after the source link is the post/comments themselves, completely unedited for you to see! Read on, after the break.
That’s a big elf ya got there.
Feb 18th
To me, the Battle for Mount Hyjal (the Caverns of Time raid instance in WoW, released during The Burning Crusade) feels like WoW’s take on a the same battle back in Warcraft 3, and in a way, I suppose it is. It’s got all those soldiers dying because they suck, the elves getting pissed off cause they suck and their heals do nothing, and the mages who also suck because they can’t do massive DPS like the playable class of the same name can.
Then, of course, you have the heroes! Jaina Proudmoore and Thrall, but I noticed something… why the hell is everyone so fucking huge? Seriously, the basic RIFLEMEN (yes, that’s right, the Dwarfish Riflemen) are nearly larger than my Draenei, one of the largest races in the Alliance (possibly being slightly smaller than Night Elves, not quite sure). As for the heroes they ARE larger than everyone, yet her actual character in Theramore by no means towers over my Paladin.
Oh, and those screaming “PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN”, here’s to you!
I apologize about the crappy quality of the images, the game prints screenshots with good compression but this comes at a great loss to quality.
Grats, you lucky bastards you!
Feb 16th
A big congratulations to Moon Guard’s very own Wrath of the Righteous for killing the bastard that is known as the Lich King! I know it ain’t easy (not really, I haven’t done it 
) and you guys deserve it! But if you used Saronite Bombs* to exploit I shall come down on you like a ton of bricks!
* Kidding, Saronite Bombs have actually been disabled for this fight until the problems with them are fixed.
You will all refer to me by the name, Betty.
Feb 9th
Kidding. What I mean to say is, you may now refer to me by the name, Crusader Xanwryn.
The title which involves you becoming exalted with and having the right to represent either the Alliance or Horde in the Argent Tournament, as well as being exalted with the Argent Crusade, isn’t necessarily difficult. By that, I mean it isn’t difficult at all (like most activities in WoW), it’s just extremely tedious (another common attribute of WoW). Read on after the break!
Ensidia brings the lulz.
Feb 4th
Ensidia gets world first Lich King Normal 25-man kill.
Ensidia (or at least Muqq) gets banned for using an exploit to kill the Lich King.
I couldn’t care less if they used an exploit or not (I think they did, but meh), I just find it so amusing that Muqq feels the need to tarnish his guilds website with his pathetic little tears of how he’s ragequitting. Huge troll or legit? Who knows, I find it amusing either way.
Drown them in blood!
Feb 3rd
Getting Ravenholdt reputation up to Exalted for the Insane in the Membrane achievement is going to be tedious as hell.
Why? Because you have to kill Syndicate mobs and you only get 5 reputation per kill (you can get about 100 rep a minute farming the mobs at Durnholde Keep in Hillsbrad Foothills). Then, once you reach Revered you’ll stop gaining rep and the only way to get rep for non-Rogues will be to turn in roughly 1400 Heavy Junkboxes for 75 rep a piece. Of course, the only way to get those is by pickpocketing so unless you’ve got a Rogue or know of a incredibly nice Rogue friend, good luck getting those!
However, see this less as a rant post (because that’s not what it is) and more of a warning to all those wanting the achievement. Getting the Ravenholdt and Darkmoon Faire factions to Exalted is probably the hardest part of the achievement, not because they’re tedious but because of the planning that is needed. Getting Bloodsail rep, Steamwheedle Cartel rep and even the Shen’dralar to Exalted is easy and can easily be done by yourself with any class, these just take a lot of time. Ravenholdt however, requires a Rogue for the junkboxes, and the Darkmoon Faire whilst not necessarily needing someone, it does make it a helluva lot easier if people sell the decks on the AH or you have some friends who like Inscription.
I’ll be doing this achievement at least twice (possibly 5 or 6 times if I get all the classes I want at 80 to 80, who knows though) and what makes it easier is that I don’t actually mind rep grinds such as this (I got Timbermaw from Neutral to Revered at roughly level 55, simply because I found it rather relaxing and the mobs still gave me decent XP so it wasn’t entirely worthless).
I also enjoy killing things. So as the title suggests: Drown them in blood!
Subtraction (10 player)
Arachnophobia (10 player)
The Arachnid Quarter (10 player)
The Spellweaver's Downfall (10 player)
Heroic: Hellfire Ramparts