World of Warcraft and I have this silly relationship, wherein I quit after playing for a few months, only to come back months later when something interesting happens. The third expansion, Cataclysm, will be released soon, so I recently started playing again to get my characters ready for all the changes the expansion will bring.
It so happens that I started playing again just as the yearly Halloween event was going on. The OCD player that I am wouldn’t allow me to ignore it, so I started doing all the quests …

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: