107 – The Instance: A Leak You Can't Take Back

You Can’t Stop The Signal
A flood of leaked information about the Wrath Of The Lich King expansion, taken directly from the alpha testing client for the forthcoming 2nd expansion to World of Warcraft, exploded across the Internet this week. Everything from notes about classes and talents to previously unreleased Death Knight info to imagery from the game to the actual music that alpha testers are experiencing is available for perusal on site after site after mirror site. Ina thread on the World Of Warcraft forums, Blizzard Community Manager Nathaera wrote: “Re- Posting Unreleased Content / Hacking Data Files. This category includes language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which: If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will be permanently banned from the World of Warcraft forums”
 * Show unreleased in-game items, equipment, or areas that have been unlocked by hacking into client data files
 * Show the results of hacking or any tampering of the game’s MPQ files
 * Discuss, or display any data not available through normal game play

Interview with Peter Brauer and Andy Belford
Check Out Second Skin

Town Cryer
Brad K. writes: I have recently gotten to Shattrath and am faced with either siding with Scryers or Aldor. What are some advantages or disadvantages to these sides? I play a mage if that matters.

Tzehcatli, a Troll Hunter on Earthen Ring writes: I was wondering, what you have against gnomes, other then that they are tiny and quite frankly smell bad. On the plus sides, they make great footballs, and you can even use them to guard your lawn from those ever so pesky squirrels.

Get Your New WoW T-Shirts
Also, a carrot on a stick: Jinx, the online geek t-shirt vendor, released several new lines of WoW-themed t-shirts this week, and we’ve got your direct link to the goods. There’s a tremendously full-bodied Illidan design, two Summer baseball-themed shirts, a prowling hunter shirt and, straight out of April Fools legend, the 8-bit Molten Core limited edition.