Blood Pact: Warlock guide to surviving Trial of the Crusader, part 2

Every week Blood Pact serves you up a dish of warlock delight. Chock full of juicy chunks of detail, smothered in lashings of class specific tips all topped off with a sprinkling of hundreds and thousands of mage tears.
This week I’m rounding off the Trial of the Crusader guide with the last three bosses; Faction [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Quest: Impossible

Quest: Impossible by Machini-Mations is a quick but effective piece. It’s based on the Mission: Impossible music, of course, and uses the tropes and associations of that series to help inform its own characters’ actions. I’m not sure if I’d call it parody or homage, but it’s certainly somewhere along those veins. A tiny team [...]

Lichborne: Analyzing the latest Patch 3.2.2 PTR changes

Avast ye swabbies! Welcome to Lichborne, where Death Knights rule the Seven Seas and the rest of ye lubbers walk the – Oh. Wait. Talk like a Pirate Day is OVER? Well, dangit. At least I still have this cool buff for a few more hours.

These past few weeks have bought a flurry of updates [...]

Study: Playing in a guild actually lowers stress

A new study done by researchers at Australia’s Queensland University of Technology says that spending time online playing World of Warcraft with others can actually be good for your mental wellbeing — within moderation of course. Researcher Huon Longman studied WoW players who played alongside guildies in game, and found that players often shared their [...]

Night Elf in Guitar Hero 5

This is one of the many reasons why I really enjoy this job: one day, you’re talking turkey with a psychologist who’s dealing with serious addiction issues, and the next, you’re writing about Night Elves in Guitar Hero 5. Personally, I prefer Harmonix’s new Beatles game, but there’s no denying that the character customization system [...]

Around Azeroth: My friends are my sword, I am their shield

Prue of <Victis Honor> on Lightbringer writes, “This is a shot of me and other members of Victis Honor about to take down Hodir. It was nerve-wracking the first time but I hid behind my shield. He beat us down the night before, but this time we were determined and ready. I’m not quite sure [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Ulduar: Defiance

Slaytanic pointed out to us yesterday that Atraira has released the first installment of the new movie titled Ulduar: Defiance. The video is an interesting, cinematic look at the boss fights in Ulduar. Atraira, of course, is the machinimator who created the WoW video for Lonely Island’s Boombox. We were pretty excited about the trailer, [...]