Since so much has been made over the past year of World of Warcraft’s declining subscriber numbers, it’s only fair to point out that at last count yesterday morning, the game’s playerbase had stalled at 10.2 million, exactly where it was at last count. With an expansion to come later this year, that number may well go up again!
Maybe the Pandaren race coming to World of Warcraft isn’t cute enough for you. Or maybe they’re too cute already. Wherever you fall on this crucial issue, there’s one thing you need to know.
World of Warcraft and I never did really get along. Since its launch in 2004, I’ve lost track of the number of friends of mine who loved it. They’d tell me breathlessly about their druids, priests and hunters while extolling the benefits of the Alliance or the Horde. After ages of politely declining to join them, they’ve all moved on and given up on ever convincing me. Yet after all these years, the time may finally have come for me to re-evaluate WoW. Starting with pandas.
Monopoly gets a World of Warcraft makeover this spring, and when the biggest name in board games meets the biggest name in massively multiplayer PC games, no simple reskinning will suffice. Blizzard has worked closely with Hasbro’s USAopoly artists to create a true Azerothian real estate adventure, and it shows in the colourful numbered pieces of paper players will be hoarding in May.
Reader Clay McCay sends us this image of a tattoo he recently had finished. And yes, that is a giant Worgen covering his entire back.
Ben Shaw has had one hell of a last few years. Serving overseas, the former British Army soldier was wounded by a roadside explosive in Iraq, and as a result had to have both of his eyes removed.
Confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was legally insane when he killed nearly 80 people, many children, during a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in July, according to a psychiatric evaluation ordered by the court, the Associated Press reports.
