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WoW and me #1 [update]

Fookhar at The Dark Portal. 

Wauw look, a diary about my World of Warcraft experiences, how utterly uninteresting. So far The Burning Crusade is pretty entertaining, Hellfire Peninsula, the first zone, wasn't very pretty, a desolate wasteland like Blasted Lands. It has some nice landmarks though, like the Blood Elf tower Falcon Watch and the Hellfire Citadel with its destroyed walls. Zangarmarsh, the zone I'm in now, is a lot cooler. A blueish swamp with hydras, flying stingray-like creatures and big wasps. I visited the big city in Outlands aswell, Shattrath, and it's probably the best looking capital in the game.

Zangarmarsh.

I also had my first instance-run in Outlands yesterday and this hilarious thing dropped:

TOSE: A company you ought to know

Stumbled upon an interesting article at 1UP.com, it's about TOSE, a Kyoto-based company with more than 1,000 employees. They mostly port games to other platforms, but also develop entire games for big companies such as Capcom and Konami. The interesting part is that almost no one knows about this company, they are never mentioned in the games they create, they let the developers they work for take the credit and try very hard to remain secret. Their list of clients include EA, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, THQ, Namco and of course Konami and Capcom.

TOSE: Gaming's Dirty Little Secret on 1UP.com.

Official Website of TOSE.

Wii-written entry

Had to test this, I’m writing this from the browser on my Wii. Oh, the wonders of technology! Now I just need a keyboard because this is taking forever, even with the word-suggestion function turned on.

Leet speak is dangerous

I cannot believe the stupidity of this news segment. For some reason these reporters, and even a "cyber detective" from some police department, think leet speak is designed to keep parents in the dark, and that it's dangerous, but they never bother describe why. They interview some ignorant teenager and he says "All my friends use leet speak, I can see why parents would be worried, because it could lead to… danger." Wauw, now I totally get it. So what if kids are able to speak to each other without their parents knowing what it's about, and even if they want to know what it means it's not that friggin' hard to understand. Why are Americans so paranoid?

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Behind ‘Make Love not Warcraft’ South Park episode

Recently a South Park episode featured a lot of ingame scenes from World of Warcraft, the four kids battle against a 1337 gamer who has reached a level so high no one knew it existed, yes it's not really authentic, but a lot of fun never the less. I was wondering how they created the game scenes, and stumbled upon this interview at Machinima.com, with members from the South Park animation staff. Very interesting, apparently Blizzard gave them a spot on a Burning Crusade alpha server to do the shots.

"The Blizzard team gave us a special "friends and family" server to play on. Every once an a while a strange player would walk by and check out group the filming. The programmers could instantly kill a player that got in the way of filming. There's a player out there wondering what they had stumbled upon just before they were wiped from the location."

Read the entire thing here.