All,

The site transition is (almost) complete. We will be working on the aspects of the transition that aren’t complete yet, like the gallery. If you find a bug, please jump over to the forum and tell us about it.

Thanks for your patience!

Everman

We are changing web hosts over the next two weeks, so the site may be intermittent. We will do our best keep the site up throughout the process, but we have quite a bit of information and databases we need to get moved and configured.

We appreciate your patience during this time.

Multi-core processors have become mainstream in the PC industry, and many classes of software applications like multimedia encoding and 3D rendering already benefit from the added processing power.

Ice Storm Fighters is based on a multi-threaded game engine developed by Futuremark*, makers of the 3DMark* and PCMark* series of benchmarks. The Ice Storm Fighters game engine technology demo features

Head on over to IntelCapabilitiesForum.net to download the demo / game.

Blizzard announced their street date for the upcoming expansion…

Blizzard is proud to announce that World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade will be in stores nationwide starting on January 16, 2007. For further details, please view our latest press release here. We will continue closed beta testing the expansion content over the next couple of months prior to launch to ensure that we deliver a high-quality experience for our players.

Looks like anyone looking to throw a launch party is going to have to work this new date into their schedules!

Since Blizzard announced the new Burning Crusade expansion will also have a Collectors Edition available, EBGames.com has already posted it available for sale, then removed the product within 6 hours. There is a thread going on about the disappearance over on the WoW general forums.

It was posted for $69.99 + $5 surcharge for being “oversized”.

The Official Collectors Edition will feature:
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade on both CD and DVD
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Behind-the-Scenes DVD
* The Art of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Hardcover Art Book
* Exclusive In-Game Pet: Netherwhelp*
* Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game Starter Packs, plus Exclusive Cards
* Map of Outland Mouse Pad
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Soundtrack CD

Read about the Collectors Edition at World of Warcraft.com.

The Netherwhelp pet will be just like the Diablo / Panda / Zergling pet in the original Collectors Edition in that it will not do anything other than follow you around and perhaps put on a fire display or fall asleep. It is said to be the offspring of the Nether Drake Flying Mount and is sure to be super cool!

I hear all too often that professional gaming is a shunned and poor focus for anyone in this country, however this truthfully isn’t the case. The supposed “return” from the “minimal” number of tournaments isn’t worth it. Only one guy (or team) can win it all and take home the hundreds of thousands of dollars; and apparently this doesn’t happen enough in order to justify a majority of the world’s gamer population to take up gaming as a professional sport. I have finally seen some major events and tournaments popping up and it may just be the next step, albeit it is small, towards fortifying professional gaming as a realistic “career.” more »

Gaming Steve is reporting that Blizzard is working on linking the Battlegrounds servers together in order to allow cross realm competitions!

Right now they are planning on linking 16 realms together per Battleground server for massive PvP action. more »

The patch we have all been waiting for is here!
Download it now on FileFront!
Released yesterday and weighing in at a hefty 120MB, the patch includes new Multiplayer Maps: q4dm10, q4dm11, q5ctf6, q4ctf8, q4dm9, q4tourney1 and q4ctf7. Some of the new features for multiplayer are Voice Chat, forcemodel, and a new and improved Game Browser.