Online Gamer Survey

NPD's annual survey of online gamers tries to capture what folks are playing.  Massively thinks the popularity of many games is tied to their new payment methods.  Here's their article.
http://www.massively.com/2010/05/13/ddo-jumps-to-third-most-popular-spot-in-mmo-survey/

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Caster Haste

How haste works.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/18/theorycraft-101-caster-haste/

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The Death Knight as Unholy Tank

Talents, stats, glyphs and more about setting yourself up as an unholy tanking DK.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/18/lichborne-unholy-tanking-101-tuesday/

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Addons and Macros for the Resto Shaman

A list of addons that restoration shamans will find helpful.
http://www.wow.com/2010/04/06/totem-talk-restoration-addons-and-macros/

http://www.wow.com/2010/05/18/totem-talk-addons-for-restoration-part-2/

http://www.wow.com/2010/06/08/totem-talk-restoration-addons-part-3/

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WOW Remote Service and the Auction House UPDATED

Blizzard's new Remote Service is in beta right now.  Once this thing goes live, for a monthly fee ($2.99) players can access the Auction House remotely from the Armory website or by using their iPhone or iPod Touch.  The beta is free but only available on a few realms currently, although the blue posting says they plan to eventually make the beta available on all realms. Details here.
http://www.wowhead.com/blog=156840

UPDATE:  Reactions to the new AH service.
http://www.ixobelle.com/2010/05/remote-ah-thoughts.html

http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2010/05/wow-remote-ah-application-on-iphone.html

http://druidreliquary.blogspot.com/2010/05/remote-auction-house.html

http://graymatterwow.blogspot.com/2010/05/wow-auction-house-theres-app-for-that.html

UPDATE #2 - The beta is now available on all U.S. realms.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/21/remote-auction-house-beta-test-expanded/

UPDATE #3 - The beta has ended and the service is now live.  It costs $2.99 for 30 days' service.  Not cheap, in other words.
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/07/remote-auction-house-beta-testing-ends/

And the price is higher in Europe.
http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2010/06/09/remote-auction-house-goes-live-and-rips-off-europe-in-the-process/


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BlizzCon Tickets on Sale June

Tickets will be on sale June 2 and again June 5.  They cost $150 each.  There will be multi-channels on DirecTv as well.  Some things will be on the Internet for free.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179373

Mana Obscura reports the free pet will be a Mini-Deathwing.
http://www.manaobscura.com/?p=690

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Computer Monitor-Induced Insomnia?

If you have trouble sleeping at night you might  be interested in this article from Dreambound who is trying out monitor software that is supposed to reduce the glow emitted by computer monitors at night.  There is research that suggests such light impacts your internal body clock, perhaps making insomnia worse.
http://dreambound-druid.blogspot.com/2010/05/flux-screen-tinting-light-and-nighttime.html

The f.lux program can be downloaded here.  There is both a Mac and a PC version.
http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

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Smacking the VuhDo Bug

Rhil loves VuhDo but occasionally this healing addon stops working at the worst possible moment and won't cast a spell.  Rhil did some hunting around and discovered what the problem is.  The incredibly easy fix for it is listed here.
http://www.isheepthings.com/blog/vuhdo-solution-2/

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Warlocks and Professions

A brief overview of the professions and what warlocks can get out of each.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/17/blood-pact-warlock-professions/#continued

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The Lich King, Healing and Discipline Priests

Another take on healing one's way through the Lich King fight.  There are links to several other discussions of the same topic if you want a rounded picture of how disc priests thinks this should be done.
http://bobturkey.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/comments-on-disciplining-the-lich-king-25/

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