Aessina of IGNWorld.com has discovered an article about a baby girl who is just 3 years old but already a hardcore gamer in the World of Warcraft. Her father was the one who exposed her to this fascinating world when she was just 12 months old and now she’s known as “Dangerboy” at level 60 interacting and grinding with the rest of the veteran hordes of WOW. Here’s her little story which has been circulating around the blogosphere:

“This is Charisma.

Our daughter is 3 years old and she has been playing Blizzard Entertainment’’s hugely popular MMO, World of Warcraft since she was 1½ years old!

Clearing monsters to swipe a treasure chest, PvP battlegrounds, and dungeon grouping are all taken in stride as Charisma (aka: “Dangerboy”) handles her oversized mouse and keyboard with professional gamer dexterity and skill.

At 12 months old, Charisma showed a great deal of interest in what Mommy (PvPmom) and Papi (juBBjuBB) were doing on the PC. When she starting navigating through Control Panel and Device Manager and changing settings, they built her a computer of her own.

Initially, she began playing WoW and doing simple actions like jumping and chasing bunnies, but she quickly learned the more advanced functions of the game and graduated into teamplay, looking for random people to help, and exploring the world. It became evident the newbie towns were growing too small too fast, and Charisma’’s limited online playtime had only allowed her to level her character to 20 by herself. We transferred one of our pre-existing level 60 Alliance Rogues over to her account, and her virtual world opened up wide. She ran, rode, and flew anywhere she could looking for new places to explore and learning each zone’’s nuances. We often include her in questing as a family and we group with her often  in dungeon instances where she learns how to play a role in a team and not to run ahead blindly around corners.

Source:  http://ignworld.com/index.html

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If you’ve haven’t had enough of our Top 10 Sexiest Cosplay Babes in Comic-Con 2009 a few weeks ago. Here are our newest cosplayers who attended the recent Blizzcon 2009. BlizzCon is a yearly celebration of the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo games and all the other related franchises of Blizzard Entertainment. After the jump, check out our top 10 picks among BlizzCon girls taken at the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, StarCraft II, and Diablo III themed photo booths.

1. The seductive snake charmer

Catclysm unleashed wide spread destruction, but also new hot babes have awakened

2. The yo-yo babe

I’m pondering what’s the connection of yo-yo in Diablo, but i’m sure this girl is pretty with (or without) elf ears

3. Finding Nemo

Nemo has been finally found, kissing a lovely elf maiden

4. Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga goes wild in Blizzcon! (photo where she’s not topless or bottomless)

5. Draenei Priestess

All in Favor of Sexy, Say ‘Moooooo”

6. The Lady of Pain

Fierce and grotesque is hot

7. The Asian Beauty

Beauty and the Beast (no puns intended)

8. Dark Elves of Cataclysm

Porn for Leprechauns

9. The Girl Next Door

Asian beauty doesn’t bore us

10. The Elven Warrior

All in Favor to marry her, Say “Aye”

Photo Sources:
http://www.blizzard.com/
http://politeinpublic.com/
http://www.joystiq.com

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Are adult MMO gamers the new couch potato?  According to the report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, they find links between video gaming and health issues in older demographics aged 35 years old and above.

The author of  the said article, Dr. James B Weaver III, has hypothesized that adults who choose to have sedentary lifestyle which is just play the addicting video games are the ones vulnerable to risky health issues, such as higher BMI and poor mental-health days.

They find out that the average of these adult video-game addicts are overweight, low extroversion, and often depressed. These factors make them sacrifice real-world physical activities in exchange of secluded lifestyle. They also compared the time spent of these adult gaming enthusiasts versus the non-players in the internet through online gaming and online game support, apparently this is also in connection with adults in massive online games, days and night non-stop grinding.

They are quoted as saying that further research among adults will be conducted to on how use digital opportunities more effectively to promote health and prevent disease.

You can read the whole article in this link.

Source: www.alphagalileo.org

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Since the exciting information about the third expansion of World of Warcraft has been leaked out online, everybody has been religiously seeking for new details surrounding the events in Cataclysm. And the big question is how would the new world of Azeroth be look like after the “Great Sundering”. Thanks Hothgor of MMO-Champion for sharing a few photos that gives you clues on how the Azeroth were split up into different continents as well as a hidden easter egg in WOW game that will show you a rough sketch of the post-Azeroth. Find it out after a few break.

With the imminent announcement of World of Warcraft – Catacylsm, it only seems fitting that some attention is paid to the ‘clues’ already placed in the game.  Perhaps the most glaring example of what Azeroth will look like can be found in HoL and Ulduar.

This is the Eastern Kingdoms.  This area of the world does not seem to be affected very much by the events to come.

This is Kalimdor.  Notice how the entire central area of the continent has been devastated, presumably by the Cataclysm.  You can pick out Azshara fairly easily, as well as Winterspring, Teldrassil and the Azure/Bloodmyst Isles.  What is missing, however, seems to be The Barrens, Stonetalon Peaks, and PARTS of Dustwallow Marsh.  The big island on the right seems to be located approximately where Theramore is now, so perhaps Jania is safe…for now…

Of course, none of this is probably new to most of you guys, but in Ulduar, there is a ‘hidden’ easter egg/treat:

This is Azeroth.  No really, it is!  Take a look.  Its in the hallway leading to Algalon’s room.  You can see Azshara, Dun Morogh, Lake Lordamere and other important land marks.  Want a better view?

Once again you can clearly see ‘northern’ Azeroth.  Winterspring and Azshara are clearly visible from Kalimdor, Quel’Danas and Eversong Woods can also be seen, and Lake Lordamere is clearly visible.  In Northrend, you can clearly see Icecrown Glacier, and careful examination reveals the Caldera and Grizzly Hills.  Now from the other side…

You can easily see Ungoro, Tanaris, 1k Needles, and the Isle of Dread.  You can also barely make out the last portion of Durotar, and across the ocean you can see the edge of Dun Morogh and Stranglethorn Vale.

Now yes, I know the world is on its ’side’, but perhaps that is simply part of the story line.  Conspicuously absent is the Maelstrom…perhaps its ‘vanishing’ is a direct cause of the Cataclysm.  We will find out next week, hopefully!  In the meantime, I present to you the ‘corrected’ new world of Azeroth from WoW-Cataclysm:

Source: www.mmo-champion.com

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They said World of Warcraft is still the best looking MMORPG out there and the most notorious of throwing up surprises. After everyone were impressed with the second expansion Wrath of the Lich King, embrace yourself for the third expansion called “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm”.  If you are familiar with Warcraft history, Cataclysm refers to an epic event known as “the Great Sundering”, which split up the game world of Azeroth into several continents approximately 10,000 years ago at the end of the War of the Ancients. According to Boubouille of MMO-Champion, the leaked information hasn’t yet been officially announced by Blizzard however he assures everybody that the details he has gathered were not made up by mere fanboys but actually came from few reliable sources. Check out the brand new classes, races, and contents expected in the upcoming expansion after the jump.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the next expansion for World of Warcraft. Dark and forgotten threats that have long stayed out of sight have finally arrived on our shores, unleashing a cataclysmic event upon Azeroth and now preparing more nefarius plans to take it back.

Level Cap

The level cap in the next expansion will be slightly lower than expected this time around; 85.

This suggests Blizzard wants more room for expansions before hitting the level 100 cap. With less leveling to do (along with the revamped leveling listed below likely to increase the speed and ease of leveling), leveling a new race remains appealing for new and existing players alike.

Leveling from 80-85 should be a much bigger deal, the idea is to make sure that gaining a level really means something and doesn’t make you feel like you just have 4 more levels to go.

New Classes

Cataclysm doesn’t introduce any new classes to the game. Instead, Blizzard have offered more race and classes combinations to players. The Some of these have alreadly been datamined from the 3.2.2 Test Realms. The An Injured Colleague quest and it’s new Night Elf counter-part help to introduce the lore for these new race and class combinations, so we can probably expect to see more of these for some of the less traditional ones.

• Human Hunter
• Orc Mage
• Night Elf Mage
• Dwarf Mage
• Blood Elf Warrior
• Dwarf Shaman
• Undead Hunter
• Tauren Paladin
• Tauren Priest
• Gnome Priest
• Troll Druid

New Races
The events of the cataclysm has caused two new races to seek new allies. The Goblins for the Horde and the Worgen for the Alliance.

Goblins
Deathwing once again sought the services of the goblins, as slaves. Unable to refuse such an offer, the goblins were enslaved by him. A large group have resisted however. With their previous homes devastated by the cataclysm, they escaping to an island off the coast of The Barrens. As they strive to recover, they come across an Orc captured on an Alliance ship and rescue him. The Orc turns out to be none other than Thrall himself, and in return offers the Goblins a place within the Horde. These events are carried out in a quest line, allowing players to experience first-hand the reasons behind the Goblins’ shift from neutrality.

Worgen
The cataclysm has cracked open the Greymane Wall, finally revealing what has happened to the kingdom of Gilneas and its citizens. With the Worgen curse taken hold, they have found a partial cure, allowing thme to retain their Human minds even when transformed. Venturing forth from Gilneas and seeking help from the Alliance, they have decided to join them, to combat the new threats of Cataclysm.

Gilneas will make extensive use of the phasing system (much like the Death Knight starting area), to show what happened while the kingdom was cut off from the rest of the world and lead up to present day.

Worgens will have two forms, a Worgen form and a Human form. Players will be able to customise the look of both forms.

New Content
Cataclysm will be the first expansion not to introduce a new continent, instead making use of previously unreleased zones and revamping existing ones.

Classic Azeroth Revamp
A cataclysmic event caused by Deathwing and Azshara will change the face of Azeroth as we know it. Most of the new content for Cataclysm will take the form of a revamped Azeroth, taking advantage of newer additions to WoW such as phasing and daily quests. Most of the quests and mobs in the classic zones will also be redesigned to make leveling less painful. With the revamp, a greater narritive and sense progression will be offered to players. Some zones and dungeons will change drastically to fit this, e.g.,

• The Barrens will be split into two separate zones of two different level bands.
• Azshara will become a low level (~10-20) zone.
• Some of the zones like the Thousand Needles will be flooded.
• Durotar is wrecked and apparently Orgrimmar could be destroyed. A new Orc city is rebuilt over the course of the expansion.
• Gnomeregan will be part of the expansion as well and gnomes might be able to reclaim their capital. (The last part is still unconfirmed)
• Wailing Caverns will be become a lush tropical area as a result of the druid’s magic.
• The Blackrock Spire will erupt and a new version of Blackrock Mountains will be available, apparently Ragnaros will be back too.

In the aftermath of the cataclysm, and the new conflicts on the horizon relief efforts can be found in many zones and new open PvP areas similar to Lake Wintergrasp.

Flying in Azeroth
Part of the redesign of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor is the introduction of flying to the two continents, allowing access to many new areas and quicker travelling across the large continents.

Classic Dungeon Revamp
Redesigning Onyxia’s Lair in Patch 3.2.2 was just the first step. As most of the leveling will take place in revamped areas of Azeroth, so too will the dungeons, allowing players to use them to level from 80 to 85.

Unreleased Zones & Dungeons
With the addition of flying mounts to Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms and the redesign of many zones, most of the previously unreachable or incomplete zones will now be made available to players. This is where most of the new content from 80 to 85 will take place. Some of these are,

• Hyjal (present)
• Gilneas – The Worgen starting Zone.
• Uldum

It is unclear if the old Goblin locations such as Kezan and Undermine will be included in Cataclyms with the revelation of the goblins’ plight, but several new islands have also been risen from the seas by the events of Cataclysm, some on the backs of giant sea turtles and whales, with the addition of several underwater zones.

Characters and Events

Deathwing
Deathwing the Destroyer / Neltharion the Earth-Warder will play a major role in Cataclysm. Having been driven mad by Old God whisperings and turning against his own kind only to be fail in his attempts, Deathwing has sunk into the shadows. While the Horde and the Alliance were busy fighting back the Burning Legion only to then be beset with the Scourge, he has been lurking and moving things into place. After Lady Sinestra’s failed attempts to create a Twilight Dragonflight, he again retreated to Grim Batol and succeeded where she failed. With his results seen in the Obsidian Sanctum, he has finally created the supreme Dragonflight he sought and plans to unleash it upon the world. But what of the Old Gods’ sway over him?

Azshara
Queen Azshara will also play a major part in Cataclysm. Unknown to many mortal races, long forgotten by others, and believe to be dead by her own kind, she has not been dormant in depths of the Maelstrom. Having those around her transformed by the Old Gods into Naga after her failure in the War of the Ancients, she has become far more powerful and a greater threat than she once was. Not content with just Nazjatar and the depths of the sea, Azshara seeks to reclaim power and reign once again. With the true plan behind Lady Vashj’s support of Illidan remaining a mystery we do not know what hand Azshara has yet played. The big question remains, is she now serving her “saviors”, the Old Gods?

The Cataclysm
I’m still not sure who is the true end boss of Cataclysm is, but the cataclysm appears to have been caused by attempts to incantation to summon extremely powerful beings using an ancient incantation by Deathwing and Azshara. They’re both very powerful, but the cataclysm itself suggests something more powerful is behind it, perhaps their shared past of Old God influence?

The Guardian of Tirisfal
Malfurion Stormrage will be returning to Azeroth to aid in the creation of the new Guardian of Tirisfal – Thrall! Med’an’s role in these events is currently unknown.

The New (New) Horde
Thrall will hand over the leadership of the Horde to Garrosh Hellscream, while he serves as a coordinator for both the Horde and Alliance forces in and effort to combat the new threat of the Naga and Black Dragonflight. Without Thrall to keep Garrosh in check, he declares open war on the Alliance. In the political upheaval Cairne Bloodhoof is implicated as a traitor to the Horde and murdered by Garrosh. Cairne’s son Baine takes over as the new Tauren chieftan. This could explain why Baine was removed from the game in Patch 3.2.2, you can find more information about this in Ahmo Thunderhorn – replacement for Baine Bloodhoof?

Source: http://www.mmo-champion.com

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If you are a Garena gamer and regularly visit the War3 RPG Singapore channel in Garena then happen to meet a girl gamer with a nickname “xueshasha”, you might have hit the jackot! That could probably be Giu Xue Sha in reality, one of the hottest girl in Singapore and named as Miss Maxim Singapore for 2007. She confessed on her blog that she is an an avid DOTA player and she loves to play Warcraft 3 RPG, which is the Warcraft DOTA (Defense of the Ancients).  Garena also made her an official booth babe in the recent WCG ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP and she proudly proclaimed to the staff that she was a level 19 Garena user and just recently bought Gold Membership for her account. She always plays on Singapore DOTA Room 05 with her friends. So let’s keep the balls rolling, and check out her sizzling hot photos after the jump.

Full name: Gui Xue Sha
Nickname: Sha Sha
Age: 21
Country: Singapore

In real life, She has been doing magazine shoots for men’s magazine like Maxim, Playeur, FHM and Hotstuff, as well as modeling for few car and technology ads in Singapore. She’s also a TV personality for S-Factor on Channel 5 and “bored in bikini” on clicknetwork.tv. Her hobbies are reading, computer games, swimming, shopping and sleeping.

Giu Xue Sha Gallery

Residential booth babe at Garena Championship

Bored in Bikini with Giu Xue

MMO GrindHouse Critic

Source:
www.xueshasha.com
www.garena.com
www.maxim.co.uk

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It’s another world of weirdcraft day when this teen allegedly made a threat about an airplane bound for Chicago from Indy. According to NBC Eyewitness news report, the 18-year-old Greenwood man was caught by World of Warcraft’s chat police broadcasting  that “he was planning to  board a plane at 7:30 to Chicago and he was going to kill as many Americans as possible”.

FBI spokesperson Drew Northern reminds everybody, “To communicate a threat online is a violation of federal law and does require a response by law enforcement authorities to determine the veracity of the threat. The investigation is still ongoing to determine whether or not the threat was serious and what the intent of the threat was.”

Blizzard Entertainment is giving their full cooperation to the FBI with their investigation. (I smell ban in the air)

Source:
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fugly.com

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Defense of the Ancients (DOTA, also called Warcraft3 RPG) is a custom scenario for the real-time strategy video game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the “Aeon of Strife” map for StarCraft. Like all the other Blizzard titles like StarCraft and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft RPG can be played online just like playing local multiplayer network. Players can create free accounts in Garena.com, a third party online gateway which becomes the de facto standard for online play. Experience fast and hack-free gaming with Garena! You can find the complete installation guide after the jump.

Garena Installation Guide

Garena Settings

1. After joining your channel( should be war3 RPG or DOTA channel), find and click Settings which located at top of Garena.

Note: There are two types ofv
Warcraft 3 games hosted in Garena which are:

• War3 TFT – War3 TFT or War3
  The Frozen Throne is an RTS(real-time strategy)
• War3 RPG. War3 RPG is the Warcraft 3 DOTA (Defense of the Ancients)

2. In  game setting, choose war3 RPG from lan games and click browse Once the Game Settings appear, find and click war3 RPG in LAN Games list on the left.

3. In Executable Settings, type the game path to war3.exe or by browsing the war3.exe, eg: C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\hl.exe

4. In Game Bootstrap Parameters, just leave it blank. But if you want to start warcraft 3 in windows mode for replay / ggtv purpose. you can put “ -window ” in the bootstrap parameter to launch war3 in windows mode.
5. Click OK button and you are done.
6. To start  the Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne, click the Start Game button.

Installing Patch

7.- You need to update your patch to 1.22. To make sure if its 1.22 you have to check the this…

8.  if you dont have 1.23 patch please download it from here Download [Link ][56MB]

Joining Game

9. Click Local Area Network

7. Once reached the Local Network Games, You can see the live games you can join as well as number of people joined and chat room limit. If you want to host your own game, you can simply press CREATE GAME and just follow the instructions and you are done. Enjoy your gaming!

Credits

Source: Based on Hellius.M’s Guide – http://www.garena.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=309115&extra=page%3D1

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Here’s a compiled detailed guide for the Warcraft 3 Version Switcher made by GG.SphinX in Garena Gaming Community. This will make easy for newbies who don’t have any idea of what it does since many of the Warcraft 3 TFT users have expressed difficulty in version switching. This Warcraft III version switcher app is legally distributed by Garena and you need an original license of Warcraft 3 to be able it to work correctly. Here’s the complete Warcraft 3 Version Switcher Complete Guide after the break.

WARCRAFT 3 VERSION SWITCHER (WVS) – COMPLETE GUIDE

1.20e to 1.21 and back :

• This is mainly for the Philippine and Indian gamers of GG Client, where predominantly 1.20e version games are played.

• Everybody else in the WORLD has 1.21.

If you want to play in the PH and Indian rooms with 1.20e but at the sametime you want to retain your 1.21 version as well. Then you need nothave 2 separate game versions installed in your Hard disk drive(HDD).
Instead you can use this simple tool. Its called the :

“Warcraft 3 : Version Switcher” : It is a simple tool which is used to switch between 2 versions of warcraft 3:

• 1.20e
• 1.21

Download the “Warcraft 3 : Version Switcher” from here :
LINK : http://download2.gg-game.com/Warcraft_Version_Switcher.zip
SIZE : 60.06MB

Alternative guides :

1. By ‘kidmango’ for the warcraft version switcher :
(Contains various download mirrors as well) :
http://gg-game.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=43566

Backing up current version using wvs:

If you have an older version of warcraft say 1.07 and if you wish to have a back up of it so that you can switch to it just in case, then you can do it using wvs. Follow thefollowing steps:

Step 1 : Once you have downloaded “wvs” to your HDD extract the zip file using WINRAR or WINZIP
Winrar : LINK

Step 2 : Then double click on the “wvs” icon to run it

Step 2 : Then double click on the “wvs” icon to run it


Step 3: Presently if you’re having version 1.07(say) for backing it up : click on the “Store current version” button



Step 4: Select the version which you have from the drop down list box :

Step 5: After selecting the version number of your war3, click on the “Make zip Package” to make a back up copy of your current version.

Step 6: This helps you to switch back to the previous version, if in case you face any problems with the latest patches.

Patching war3 using wvs:

Step 1 : Click on the “Switch Version” button :
Step 2 : Then double click on the version to which you would like to switch :

Step 3 : Click on yes and the game will be patched :

Step 4 : Finally click on exit when its done.

NOTE : Do not run the game by clicking on the icons in the Warcraft version switcher and search for games in  LAN, for games hosted via GG client. You wont be able to see them. Make sure you start the game only from  GG client by clicking on the “Start game” button found in the room. You can check how to setup Garena for Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne Online Multiplayer here.

I hope this guide can help our section viewers, some of whom find it difficult to switch between versions.
For detailed Info about the patching of your game, Visit this thread.
All the credits here belongs to  GG.SphinX in Garena Gaming Community

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Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is a real-time strategy PC game as an official expansion pack to WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos, requiring Reign of Chaos to play. Like all the other Blizzard titles like StarCraft and Warcraft 3 Defense of the Ancients (DotA), Warcraft III can be played online just like playing local multiplayer network. Players can create free accounts in Garena.com, a third party online gateway which becomes the de facto standard for online play. Experience fast and hack-free gaming with Garena! You can find the complete installation guide after the jump.

Garena Installation Guide

Garena Settings

1. After joining your channel( should be war3 TFT), find and click Settings which located at top of Garena.

Note: There are two types of

• War3 TFT – War3 TFT (The Frozen Throne) is an RTS(real-time strategy)
• War3 RPG. War3 RPG is the Warcraft 3 DOTA (Defense of the Ancients)

2. In  game setting, choose war3 TFT from lan games and click browse Once the Game Settings appear, find and click war3 TFT in LAN Games list on the left.

3. In Executable Settings, type the game path to war3.exe or by browsing the war3.exe, eg: C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\hl.exe

4. In Game Bootstrap Parameters, just leave it blank. But if you want to start warcraft 3 in windows mode for replay / ggtv purpose. you can put “ -window ” in the bootstrap parameter to launch war3 in windows mode.
5. Click OK button and you are done.
6. To start  the Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne, click the Start Game button.

Installing Patch

7.- You need to update your patch to 1.22. To make sure if its 1.22 you have to check the this…

8.  if you dont have 1.23 patch please download it from here Download [Link ][56MB]
Note: If you are from the Philippines or India who are still using 1.20e version of WarCraft 3 TFT,
you need this guide to enable to switch  to 1.21 version which is predominantly used by other countries.
Click here for the WARCRAFT 3 VERSION SWITCHER (WVS) complete guide.

Joining Game

9. Click Local Area Network

7. Once reached the Local Network Games, You can see the live games you can join as well as number of people joined and chat room limit. If you want to host your own game, you can simply press CREATE GAME and just follow the instructions and you are done. Enjoy your gaming!

Credits

Source: Based on Hellius.M’s Guide – http://www.garena.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=309115&extra=page%3D1

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