There’s not a lot of news this weekend, but this video floating around the web is causing enough stir to deserve a post all on it’s own. If you were at Blizzcon then you already saw it – the complete destruction of the best guild in the game by Hogger – or the steroid infused, resurrected, uber powerful version of Hogger that Blizzard cooked up just for them. It’s fun as heck to watch though – this guy is insane.

To find a one-stop source of information on Cataclysm, these sites have so far produced mini ‘portals’ on the content. They organise the content sometimes by Blizzcon date, or by information type. Certainly convenient.

world of raids
wow.com
wowraid.com coming soon.

A new expansion pack has been announced and you guessed it, there are already people claiming that a beta is “available”. I’ve already received two emails that are clearly spams and Blizzard has come right out and said in the forums that a beta clients isn’t even being built or considered yet, let alone being released. The game is likely in early Alpha testing. I know it’s exciting to think that you might get in early, but trust me – when the beta becomes a reality, Blizzard will let us …

A very interesting story unfolding this morning. Tobold claims he’s Gevlon. Gevlon says it’s a joke, but doesn’t really give a clear answer about whether its’ true or not. He could have been role-playing Gevlon’s denial.  Was Tobold just being very clever (quite possible)? We’ll find out the full story over next 24 hours, I expect.
Also, and probably more importantly, Gevlon the Greedy Goblin cleared Ulduar with a team in blues. Not epics.
In Coliseum news: Wowraid have a written strategy on the Twins and TankSpot has a video guide.

Amid all the news about Cataclysm, quite a few of the details seemed to have gotten lost, which has made for a lot of catchup in the last week or so. One of the things that has come up that not everyone necessarily saw at first in the Professions and Classes Panel was the major changes to stats that are coming with the launch of 4.0. There were already some small changes in the 3.0 patch, but this time around, some huge changes are coming as Blizzard deletes many stats …