It’s been a big week for Blizzard and World of Warcraft. They’ve announced that a live action Warcraft movie is in the works, and is being produced by Legendary Studios. That is the same company that is behind Superman Returns and Batman Begins.
Blizzard has also announced the new alliance race that will be coming in the Burning Crusade expansion. They are the Draenei. The NYTimes also has an article about the upcoming expansion; You can read it here.
I’ve taken a few minutes to do some “spring cleaning” around d3bruts1d.com. I’ve combined many of the news categories that I had, which trimmed it down to about 7 total.
I’ll still be posting about things I find interesting (Google, Opera Browser, XFire, World of Warcraft, etc.), but I didn’t see the point in having 20 different categories. This is my personal site, and not really a tech news portal; that’s what I’m building TechRelated.com for.
I’ve also added a few new links to tech news sites I visit. I’ll be working more on the links section later today or tomorrow.
I’ve also done some other stuff that most of you probably won’t notice. 
In the odd chance that something quit working, please let me know.
Anyone who plays World of Warcraft can tell you the game has some issues with its servers. It’s nothing new, as it has been a problem for the game since beta. Though, it did seem as if the game was slowly getting better there for a while (at least for some servers).
Even the low population RP-PvP server, Maelstrom, where I play has its share of issues.
Anyway, the crew at C|Net News apparently thought it was a big enough issue to post two separate articles about WoW’s server problems. You can find them here and here.
A new version of XFire was released yesterday. Along with the usual bug fixes and new game support, XFire has now added the ability to show what World of Warcraft realm someone is in. Not bad…. I know a lot of WoW players that will like that. No more messages from random people saying “what realm do you play on?”
Blizzard published a quick patch today that addresses a number of bugs. Downloaded pretty quick for me, even with the Blizzard POS patcher.