/AFK – Sept 6

Here I am!  Rock you like a hurricane — with a slew of posts and articles from the past week that caught my eye:

• Gaarawarr is the king of WAR interviews, putting both Mark Davis and Phillip Chan in the hotseat!
• Church of Pangoria links to several *excellent* Champions guides
• Random WoW Thoughts — BedWetter is a GREAT name!
• Stupid community!  Always being a barrier!
• Frank looks at WAR, one year later
• In which Blizzard says a lot of nothing about their new MMO
• Ysharros crafts, or something. Listen, it’s a lot of words at 7:00am in the morning!
• KTR gets a great Guild Wars 2 interview
• KIASA jumps over Champions Online in a single bound (see what I did there?)
• Happy Birthday, Wizard101!
• Stargrace gives DDO a second chance, and finds it pleasantly spunky
• What are some of the little things in MMOs that Chris likes? Now you know… and knowing is HALF the BATTLE!
• Ha.
• DDOcast documented the re-launch of DDO:EU!
• All is not smiles times with Champions’ launch day, according to Trembling Hand
• Champions reduces its forbidden names filter list… by quite a lot.
• Ixobelle aims some snark at Blizzard for their $30 faction change service.
• How is EverQuest like an old girlfriend?
• The Daily Proc has 10 things — not 9, not 11 — that they like about Champions.
• Game By Night has 10 things — not 8, not 12 — that everyone should know about Aion upon the pain of torture.
• Listen to m’man Snafzg, as he co-hosts an episode of Massively Speaking and shares his recent experiences in WAR.
• Tesh thinks that players are returning to WoW for a bittersweet goodbye.
• Spinks tracks the trends of upcoming betas and MMOs
• Turbine thinks that horse tails magically levitate, or something.
• Torchlight is coming this fall!
• A tragedy, revealed.
• MMeOw covers Q&As regarding LOTRO’s newest expansion.
• The newest TOR timeline has given rise to speculation that Imperial Agents will be announced as a playable class.
• A THIRD Star Wars MMO? For reals?