Wikipedia has a weekly gaming collaboration project that needs your help — not my help, what the hell do I ever know? Nothing, that’s what. This week’s project is the 65th article spotlighted for additional content and editing and it focuses on Bioforge, a 1995 RPG by Origin. If only we could harness all this gaming energy into solving the problems that have plagued humans over the ages, we might have something here.
The Japanese commercial for that vile-sounding Final Fantasy XXII Potion soft drink. I believe this is only available in Japan so someone else will have to be our test rat.
Blizzard is running the latest edition of the Warcraft Public Test Realm at its new data center — ” … the more people playing on them, the better” — although with 5000+ player queues, mostly they’re testing player tenacity. To ensure overbooking participation on the test realms, there are contest realms available for play. The contest realms opened today and will shut down on March 27th. There are three catass competitions, bla bla bla, winners get to beta test the someday-we-promise Burning Crusade expansion, bla bla bla, few thousand winners will be chosen, bla bla bla, the contests are: fastest characters to level 50, highest honor totals earned in Warsong Gulch, and most characters leveled to level 25. Yawn. Here’s three contests with more imagination that require more player skill: most times logged in without hitting a queue, most instances completed without a server crash and highest real-life-cash bid on a Burning Crusade beta position. (Because CMON, we all know that’s how this story is going to end.)