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Starting World of Warcraft Holiday Show #13 – Red 5 can be downloaded for FREE at www.StartingWoW.com. Accept no substitutes!

This week on Starting WoW, I talk about Red 5 Studios, a group of ex Blizzard devs who claim they are going to make their own MMO, we talk about how simply giving to Charity can get you free WoW for the rest of your days, we also talk about the BLIND machinema I posted on the site, and we talk a bit about what I am up to in WoW at the moment.

Please don’t forget to leave me some nice iTunes stars!

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http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/26/former-blizzard-devs-at-red-5-studios-plan-their-own-mmo/ – Red 5 Studios plan their own MMO
http://pages.teamintraining.org/ctx/pfchangs09/kallen – Give to charity, win free WoW for ever
http://www.startingwow.com/?p=110 – BLIND, the most awesome WoW Machinema I have ever seen
http://social.startingwow.com – The Starting WoW Social Network

Tags: charity, Machinima

The Craft of War: BLIND from percula on Vimeo.

Take a look at this amazing movie from Parcula. He claims that it is only the second work he has ever shared, so I can’t WAIT to see what else he has ready to be put on Vimeo!

Tags: Machinima

While wondering through Negrad, I found this. Where is Samuel Jackson when you need him?

Tags: snakes on a plane

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Starting World of Warcraft holiday show #12 – Winter Veil can be downloaded for free at www.StartingWoW.com. Don’t pay for me!

Firstly, sorry for being late this week. Now, we shall never mention it again. Also, I recorded this episode after my mouth was assaulted by lots of chillies. So that is why I sound a bit weird.

This week in the show, we talk about Child’s Play, we talk about the feast of Winter Veil, we talk about how amazing a job at Blizzard would be and we talk about Judge Judy. Yes, Judge Judy.

Happy Whatever!

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Links

http://www.ChildsPlayCharity.org – Child’s Play

http://www.wowwiki.com/Feast_of_Winter_Veil – Feast of Winter Veil

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/employees-blizzard-company-2250480-sams-work – Interview with a Blizzard employee

http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/benefits.html – Benefits for Blizzard employees

http://tinyurl.com/yorou7 – Judge Judy and WoW

Tags: charity, legal

Here at SWoW, our listeners KNOW that we are interested in science.

To keep up this idea, we have decided to instate mandatory polling of our listener-ship for some very serious and scientific tests. Playing World of Warcraft is serious business!

Please answer this poll as truthfully as you can, if you play World of Warcraft. Thanks!

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This episode of Starting WoW can be downloaded for free at www.StartingWoW.com

Today on the show, we cover a lot and a lot of feedback, both through this site and the social network at Social.StartingWoW.com. I also cover the bases on how YOU can get a FREE SWOW BADGE! Which is great enough to be in caps. Which it is, dammit!

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Remember, send your address and name to podcast@startingwow.com and the first 10 applications I get will get a free SWoW Badge!

Links

Social.StartingWoW.com – the SWoW Social Network

Tags: feedback

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SWoW Holiday Show #11 – WoW Addiction can be downloaded for free at www.StartingWoW.com

Welcome to this Starting WoW Holiday Show!

For those of you who have not been around since the start of Season 2, a Holiday show is basically what I do when I’m between seasons. Season two just finished, and season three has not yet started. Therefor, Holiday show. (And since I’m not restarting the numbering of the Holiday Shows, this makes this #11 instead of going all the way back to #1. So there!)

Today on the show, I attempt to announce the winner of that copy of Wrath of the Lich King, talk about WoW addiction, announce a new feature on the site and have a chat with you all, something I havn’t had the chance to do in a fair while.

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Links

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=95 – See the results of the Friends Poll

http://www.startingwow.com/?p=100 – Place your vote in the latest SWoW Poll

http://Social.StartingWoW.com – Take part in the new Starting WoW Social Network

http://is.gd/947B – Read the TechRadar.com report on why MMO addiction is not all that it seems

Thanks for listening!

Tags: addiction

Here at SWoW, our listeners KNOW that we are interested in science.

To keep up this idea, we have decided to instate mandatory polling of our listener-ship for some very serious and scientific tests. Playing World of Warcraft is serious business!

Please answer this poll as truthfully as you can, if you play World of Warcraft. Thanks!

Asylum.com, a blog which seems to cover pretty much everything, has interviewed the sexy Felicia Day, writer and star of The Guild as well as cast member on Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog and Ledgend of Neil, about how to catch the fairer sex on World of Warcraft.

So what advice would you give to guy trying to meet a girl in World Of Warcraft? Well, most of the female avatars in World of Warcraft are actually guys. So if you’re a guy looking to meet girls, you need to make sure to put the person you’re interested in through that vetting process. And if you’re a girl, be prepared to fight guys off with a stick because there’s a lot more of them than there are female gamers. You should join a large guild and pair with other people to go on missions. Try and meet people who are on your same level.

For more advice from the lady herself, check out the original post at Asylum!

Tags: Felicia Day

Hey there all interested SWoW listeners!

As I mentioned in the last episode of season 2, this week SWoW will be taking the week off. This is our FIRST week off in two entire seasons, that’s about abouts 33 weeks. Proud of us, are you?

Anyhoo, the reason that a week has been taken off is that I was playing in a concert on saturday night, and got home at about 1 AM. As a result of this, about 60% of my homework for school has not been done, and I am way too tired to actually record an episode.

So instead, I’m going to remind you to both listen to last week’s episode to get the directions for how YOU can win a copy of Wrath of the Lich King, and to vote in the ongoing poll about how SWoW affects your social life.

We will be back next week, with the first Holiday show for the Season 2-3 gap.