The game is curruntly slated for realease on PC and Xbox 360. The trailer can be viewed below….

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The trademarks are as follows…

Entertainment services, namely, providing on-line computer games; providing computer games that may be accessed via a global computer network; and providing on-line information in the field of computer gaming entertainment

Computer game software and related instruction manuals and guides sold together as a unit; downloadable computer game software; interactive multimedia computer game program; mousepads

Comic books, computer game strategy guides, trading cards, coloring books, adhesive stickers, rub-on transfers, notebooks, stationery-type portfolios, posters, greeting cards, calendars, instructional leaflets in the field of computer games, computer game instruction manuals, catalogs in the field of computer games, advertisement boards of paper or cardboard, photographs, art prints

As Blizzcon is coming up in the next few weeks their is a chance that we may find out. Only time will tell!

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From the official forums….

We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we’re developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. There’s still much work to do and many details to iron out, but the basic idea is that players will be able to use the service to transform an existing character into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction on the same realm. Players who ended up creating and leveling up characters on the opposite factions from their friends have been asking for this type of functionality for some time, and we’re pleased to be getting closer to being able to deliver it.

As with all of the features and services we offer, we intend to incorporate the faction-change service in a way that won’t disrupt the gameplay experience on the realms, and there will be some rules involved with when and how the service can be used. The number of variables involved increases the complexity of implementing this service, but we plan to take the time needed to ensure that it lives up to expectations before officially rolling it out. We’ll go into much more detail on all of this here at http://www.WorldofWarcraft.com as development progresses. In the meantime, we wanted to let you know that because this type of functionality requires extensive internal testing well in advance of release, you may be seeing bits and pieces of the service in the test builds we use for the public test realms moving forward.

Now word about when it will be available to players but from the post it looks like it will be at least a few months off. The main concern that comes to mind is how unbalanced this service will make the already unbalanced realms. The realm I currently play on is heavily skewed towards the Alliance and I can just see this making the divide even bigger on some realms. How Blizzard plan to address this issue if at all we will have to see.

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Highlights include…

• Rewritten Finder.
• Built-in Microsoft Exchange support.
• New version of QuickTime with HTTP streaming and a whole new look.
• Half the install footprint of 10.5 (about 6GB saving) and 45% faster installs.
• Handwriting recognition on new track pads.
• Safari 4

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Patch notes are as follows…

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.1.3
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The latest patch notes can always be found at

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/patchnotes/

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/testrealm.html

Death Knights

-  Frost Presence: Armor bonus is now 60% down from 80%.

Druids

-  Improved Barkskin: This talent now also grants 80/160% additional
armor while in Travel Form or not shapeshifted.
-  Improved Tree of Life: The armor bonus to Tree of Life Form from
this talent has been reduced to 67/133/200% bonus armor.

Hunters

-  Hunter’s Mark: The ranged attack power bonus from this ability has
been increased from 300 to 500.
-  Master Marksman: This talent now also decreases the cost of Aimed
Shot and Chimera Shot by 5/10/15/20/25%.

Paladins

-  Eye For An Eye: This talent now deals 5/10% of the critical strike
damage taken by the paladin back at the attacker.
-  Hand of Freedom: The base duration of this buff has been reduced
from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.

Rogues

-  Overkill: Talent redesigned. Now increases energy regeneration by
30% while stealthed, and for 20 seconds after breaking stealth.

Warlocks

-  Chaos Bolt: This spell no longer ignores damage reduction effects of
the target.

Warriors

-  Blood Frenzy: This talent now provides 5/10% haste instead of 3/6%.
-  Bloodthirst: Cooldown reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds, and rage
cost reduced from 30 rage to 20 rage.
-  Juggernaut: This talent now also increases the cooldown on Charge by
5 seconds.

Items

-  Death Knight PvP Gauntlets: The chance to refresh a Frost Rune when
casting Chains of Ice has been removed. When equipped, these gloves
now generate 5 additional runic power whenever Chains of Ice is
used.

Dungeons

-  Ulduar
-  Mimiron
The flight time of Rocket Strikes has been increased, and Rocket
Strikes will try to prefer players at range.
The Leviathan Mk II component of the V-07-TR-0N will become stunned
during Phase 4 when the VX-001 component begins to cast the P3Wx2
Laser Barrage ability.
Proximity mines now deal less damage and have a lower duration. A
small arming time has also been added so proximity mines will not
immediately detonate on creation.

Bug Fixes

-  Druid Tier 8 Balance Set: The 4-piece bonus no longer has its effect
consumed by Starfire casts in progress when it triggers.  The chance
for the effect to be triggered has been reduced down to 8%, as it
was originally inflated to compensate.
-  Ice Layered Barrier: Upgraded to item level 232. In addition, the
stats in the tooltip have been correctly adjusted to 78 spell power,
48 haste rating, 16 mana per 5 seconds, 52 Intellect, and 50
Stamina.
-  Pulsing Spellshield: The stats listed in the tooltip for this item
were incorrect and have been adjusted. This item provides 69 spell
power, 34 haste rating, 42 critical strike rating, 45 intellect, and
45 stamina.

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As for the games for the new console, not much has been said by Sony on when they will be available versus the retail UMD version, or if they will be available for purchase as a code in a box like the Patapon 2 in the USA. There is a possibility that the old back catalogue of UMD only games may be made available for people to download to their console but nothing has officially been mentioned.

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The first official leaked images of the much rumored PSP Go images are now going around the internet. The slip up aparntly has come from Sony’s online Qore magazine which features som images and a video of the new device.

Features include…

• UMD Free
• 16GB Flash Memory
• Built in BlueTooth
• 43% lighter than the PSP-3000
• 3.8 inch screen
• Slide out controller pad

The console will be ariving this autum and will NOT be replacing the existing PSP-3000 (atleast not at the moment).

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