It appears to still be running in terms of development. How interesting.

I've been fooling around with Guild Wars quite a lot over the past week or so, both playing a little with old and established characters and trying out new combinations. I've paid particular attention to Mika Taleni (Necromancer / Mesmer - Profecies) and Dario Navarre (Elemental / Monk - Factions).

Darios's fairly fun to fool around with, and it feels like he's leveling about three times faster than I remember it taking. He's currently as level 8. But I've fooled more with Mika.

The following was posted by Raven on the Tera site. Unfortunately copy and paste totally fucked up the table so I had a go manually:
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One of the most asked questions in the last weeks were about the upcoming beta phases for TERA. Today we want to share our plan for all upcoming beta sessions with you, so be sure to check out our complete list:

CBT 1 from 17.02.2012 to 19.02.2012
CBT 2 from 02.03.2012 to 04.03.2012
CBT 3 from 16.03.2012 to 18.03.2012
CBT 4 from 30.03.2012 to 01.04.2012
CBT 5 from 13.04.2012 to 15.04.2012

So apparently there was some bug in WoW where Pallys were pulling in 10x their normal DPS. People were quick to notice and... well...

One of my Japanese coworkers' son is enrolling in first grade at a private school here in Japan. He had to take an entrance exam which I found absolutely fascinating. One of the questions is below. He was given 3 minutes to answer it. We haven't done a puzzle in a long time, but please PM me your answer!

The basic gist of this problem is as follows:

I had planned on a few pictures here but Im writing this at work and the pics are on my home PC so, well, sorry about that. I'll edit it tonight with them when I get home.

This weekend was a lot about spending money and sadly in no way about making it. My recruitment into PCGE corp went well and I now have access to all the private stuff. They appear to be quite well organised but as to how well that planning makes its way into reality in game I won’t know for a few weeks.

If you think the song sounds familiar it's because it is. It's the "This is Halloween" song from The Nightmare Before Christmas, one of my favourite animated films. ^_^
Here's the original (fastforward to 0:45 to skip the intro):

You ever search for something, not find -exactly- what you are looking for but close enough so you just go with it?

Yea... I might like My Little Ponies.

Really, it is an incredibly well done sync and from 1:38 on it gets awesome.

Reading Chunder's latest thread I thought I recalled I had an Orca in Eve. I did a quick search which brought up the EVE Microtransactions thread and as I was humorously reading tan and I arguing, I got to the point where those two games came up. Have they been released yet? Anybody play them? Any new news on them?