If you’re becoming very attached to your game character and persona (y’know, far more than you should but who am I to judge?), maybe you’d be interested in commissioning an original digital portrait for a forum sig or as a gift for your neglected loved ones: Douglas Shuler Commissioned Art. Additional samples of his work are in the gallery. (btw, he wants to be paid in real life dollars, not Warcraft gold.)
n3rfed’s Cosmik did some dandy research into Warcraft’s Medivh server, currently in the lead for the race to open the AQ gates, and discovered that Medivh is under seige by touring alts from other servers, created solely to witness the opening script: AHN’QIRAJ TO OPEN IN N SECONDS. SERVER TO CRASH IN N+1 SECONDS. I’m sure most of the alts just want to see the opening and mean no harm, but I’ll wager there’s more than a few that (hmm, how to say?) … wouldn’t mind delaying Medivh’s progress with lag and queues. Heh, it’s funny, cuz it’s not my server.
Via Gamasutra, a gaming insider’s news site, 2006 IGF Student Showcase Winners Announced. Winning games will be featured at the 2006 GDC. You can try out many of the games yourself, like Cloud, a goofy flying game without orcs or superheroes. If I had to battle flying orc superheroes, then they’d really have something there!