Stefan Hayden

go see all the madness at mmo-champion!

Update: they took it all down. so the images are dead.

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”460” caption=”Look at that bridge!!”][/caption]

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”460” caption=”stormwind from the sky”][/caption]

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”460” caption=”Wow! huge update for kobolds!”][/caption]

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”460” caption=”Stonetalon Mountains looks a lot less painful to get around!”][/caption]

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”460” caption=”Yeay! the gnomes are still in thousandneedles! Speedbardge!! Oh and there is Razorfen Downs.”][/caption]

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”460” caption=”wow a murloc update!”][/caption]

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”460” caption=”westfall a little blownup”][/caption]

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”460” caption=”wonder why they need a wall now? or was that always the plan?”][/caption]

John Hodgeman versus Patton Oswalt in a Science Fiction Trivia Challenge. I only wish this was longer.

I only wish these inter-industry criticisms that game designer blogs and conferences would break out to be more mainstream:

When you have games industry professionals from large companies arguing that we shouldn’t worry about making a game less enjoyable as long as it generates more revenue – to me that is something to be concerned about.

These are some awesome maps.

This is just a fun question that you used to be able to easily answer on youtube. But it seems some time in Nov 09 it was removed. but while it seems to be gone there still seems to be a way to access the number for the time being.

1. go here: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/USERNAME?v=2 and replace USERNAME with your username
2. Search for videoWatchCount

kind of a pain but hopefully that data will stay in the feed. We know google is tracking us all very closely. we might as well have access to that data.