NCSoft announced the upcoming release of the first expansion for Guild Wars, ETA second quarter of 2006, Guild Wars: Factions. Players can try it out, free, January 20 through January 22 — access keys for those without GW accounts are available at their site. Two new professions are in the expansion: Assassin (I’m guessing that means rogue) and Ritualist (I have no idea what that is, maybe shaman?).
Aussie comedy group Tripod performing their song “Make You Happy Tonight” at a Comedy Festival. “Just gotta finish this level, baby.” (Pffft, don’t act as if you haven’t done this.)
Grimwell, formerly of Grimwell, now of GamerGod, presents his list of The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005, including the Hot Coffee dude, the licker, Chief Nazgul Smedley, everyone’s favorite gaming Grandma (yay!), and Mr. Jenkins. I can see two attention whores on that list that should be scratched off immediately before they consume any more bandwidth.