I caught this over on Kotaku.com, and I thought it was absolutely brilliant! The icing is perfect, color is perfect, everything a Left4Dead fan would want in a birthday cake! Have a peak, and no drooling!

Warhammer Online, one of the new major MMOs on the scene, has just announced they’ll be merging a large number of servers in order to improve the combat, RvR, and overall atmosphere on the servers as a whole. Currently their numbers are holding around 300,000 total subscribers, according to a recent Kotaku.com article.

This will affect the atmosphere on every server in a major way, more than anything because RvR, or Realm versus Realm, is the dominating feature of the game. Low population servers will lack a lot of the RvR activity, while highly-populated servers have an abundance of RvR.

We’ll be looking at the situation on the merged servers, as a total of 63 servers are being closed or merged together. You can find out more about these changes at WarhammerOnline.com

I recently read an article over on Kotaku.com about this, and I felt this was important enough to post up here for our reader base to get a look at. When I went through this I got a lot out of it, including a whole new position on why government needs to be involved in the daily lives of the people, and hopefully you all will get something out of reading this key letter from the ESRB to the State of Utah.

It’s a long letter, probably two or three standard pages worth, so be ready to sit down for ten or fifteen minutes and digest this instead of just skimming over, just click the read more tab to see the letter in it’s entirety. Credit to Kotaku.com and their network for posting this.

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I had to post this up, normally I don’t showcase stupidity, but I thought our reader base would appreciate how absolutely silly this is.

In a massive push to cement their dominion of Eve’s galaxy, Band of Brothers, one of the major players in the space-based MMORPG, has been disbanded from the inside through the use of a double-agent. The story, as it was released, was updated only a few hours ago, and will be quoted in length after you click on the “Read more” button below.

As for what we know on the topic, there isn’t much that hasn’t been slathered over the internet already. We know that a Director in BoB, on an alt, got suckered into a recruiting ploy by GoonSquad (as they’re known to do on a regular basis). Instead of cussing them out and walking away, the director asked if he could stick around. He showed GoonSquad the private forums for BoB as a good will gesture, and began talks with how to eliminate BoB. Plans were made and, in the end, almost all of the major assets that Band of Brothers had are now in the possession of GoonSquad.

This in turn has caused a chain reaction over the past few hours, chaos has ensued all over the galaxy in Eve as former allies and members of Band of Brothers have begun all-out assaults against known GoonSquad holdings. The Massively article describes it in detail, but in shorthand, there are no battle lines anymore, and even innocent bystandards are being dragged into the warzones.

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We thought that it would slip through, but today the United States Congress gave the American people four more months in order to update their bunny ear’ed televisions to something that can accept digital signals. Not sure about any of the details surrounding this quite yet, as we’re just getting this in, but we’ll be talking about it on next week’s R&D for sure.

Credit this one to Candace of The Spark.

At first I thought she was just saying that it looked like a Mii in the picture that was used, but no. This is a Mii, an actual Mii from the Wii gaming system, used as a mugshot to help find a criminal. A Mii, for those that aren’t Wii fans, is the avatar one can make to go along with a player profile, stats, and other options that you have with the Wii.

The article doesn’t say whether the Mii is the actual perps, or just a composite the police put together using a Wii, but either way it’s a sign that people are using new technology in innovative and creative ways. You can read the original article here!

This made me cry tears of joy, folks, have a watch.