In Honor of…Tony Allen (and some stuff about Wrath of the Lich King)

So, The Celtics Beat the Pistons tonight. Killed em. It was actually kind of sloppy, but the Celtics slowly overpowered the pistons to the point where they were beating down on them so bad I don’t think the starters played the entire fourth quarter. I mean, Paul Pierce had 9 points I think and they won by 18. Sweet. GO Cs.

I don’t know why really, but I was checking out Venture Beat and saw their article about about WoW:Lich King and it made me happy and sad at the same time. For one, I was pretty pumped to see my obsession colliding with my job. It was cool to see the recognition that people can make money in video games, and I’m talking 2.8 Million in 24 hours kind of money.

I won’t really discuss how I feel about Blizzard and this cashcow of evil, suffice it to say that Venture Firms are really starting to get involved. Granted, Venture Capital funds have experience in the industry (if I was at work I could even run a query to estimate how much money, but that would be confidential information, maybe) but the idea that Partners all over California (and Boston, to some extent) are slobbing over the greatest and newest MMORPG gives me some sweet satisfaction. I just have this image of both father and son counting down the days to the next expansion set or latest and greatest geekfest; the son anxiously awaiting the hours of entertainment, and the father quietly awaiting his paycheck. It’s both great and tragic at the same time.

Enough business, I think I feel guilty about not working this afternoon and looking for stuff for this. Granted, now I’m home and still cruising around looking for stuff that may peak some interest. Well, I stumbled upon this from Loot-Ninja, which has a disturbing story about how a top guild completed all the tasks in the expansion in 4 days. They linked to the guild’s blog here (scroll down for their post.) Kudos to the guild, I guess, for destroying Blizzard and bringing up a valid point about the elite (l337?) gamerz and not getting enough for their buck. But honestly, maybe I’m just jealous I can’t play video games all day but more likely I’m shocked that they can. What sort of job do you have, sirs? And are you hiring?

Enough about WoW, I’m getting itchy thinking about it.

However, more from PC World, who is one of the earlier reporters of the next GTA chapter. Offered as Downloadable Content (DLC),it’s caled The Lost and the Damned and should be out on February 17, 2009. The story centers around a member of the Lost gang from the GTA IV and I guess that this new main character interacts with Nico. Cool! It’s like watching Mallrats and realizing that Trish the Dish is related to Dante’s girlfriend in Clerks (and Joey Lauren Adam’s character in Chasing Amy, but whatever). I’m down to get some Microsoft credits and give this a whirl, if nothing else then to support the revenue stream of DLC. Woohoo! Take that MMORPGs, console publishers know how to milk extra money out of us too! If you don’t believe me (or Google and the other 89 sites out there who broke this yesterday…uhh…) check out the official press release.

Well this post has gone…too long. It’s bedtime for this kid, maybe tomorrow I’ll break real news instead of telling you stuff that happened yesterday. Goodnight!

ps. I checked out loot-ninja, its really sweet. If you were smart you’d be reading that right now instead of this, but don’t you worry your pretty little heads off, I will be checking that bad boy out (and probably contacting them for suggestions.) OK GOOD NIGHT.