Today I stumbled on a post on Yahoo (via Slashdot) called How Playing Video Games can Boost Your Career. The article is pretty general – it talks about a couple of different video game genres – but it also mentions World of Warcraft.
Now, WoW gets a lot of bad press for being an addictive tinksink, and while that may be true, there are some worthwhile skills there to be learned as long as the game is played with moderation. I don’t play WoW anymore, but I did play the game …

For a long time I’ve had a concept for a World of Warcraft Raid Boss Encounter. The encounter takes place on an iceberg that travels down a icy river. While floating on the iceberg, players must fight off a boss who is destroying the iceberg out from underneath their feet. Players struggle to control the boss and repair the iceberg, all at the same time.
The full concept can be found here, on Scribd:

Preface: this isn’t my idea. It’s not original. It’s been discussed before, by better minds than mine, but I have stuff to say about it. So, here we go:
Today over lunch I was talking with my buddy Shawn about Steam, the social network/storefront for titles by Valve and other games, too. Shawn and I use Steam to play all sorts of games, and consider the Steam interface vastly superior to Windows Live, which does the same sort of thing, but uses that annoying fake currency that so many companies use …