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We have more BlizzCon 07 footage that’s going to come out, but I couldn’t resist publishing this interview now! FYI, there’s an F-word thrown in during some of the game footage, so it might be NSFW for some of you. For those that don’t know, Leeroy is definitely the most infamous WoW celebrity/character in the history of the game! For more info on Leeroy, see his page at Mahalo. Thanks to Tyler and Conrad for putting this together!

UPDATE: Yes, I know it’s fake. Yes, I knew it at the time. Do I care? Not really. The Internet is serious business, folks.

New details have been released at BlizzCon about the upcoming World of Warcraft live action movie, on Ain’t It Cool News. The picture above is the first piece of concept art that we’ve seen, and like they say in their post, it’s pretty hard to judge the movie based on some concept art. But I’m still looking forward to it!

Speaking of BlizzCon, I have some photos up from the event, and my interview with Leeroy Jenkins (see infamous video here) will hopefully be up here tonight!

For super high rez version of the photo above, click here.

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Usually I ignore crazy people. But when someone uses a tragedy like Virginia Tech to stand on their soapbox and start accusing video games of being the cause of violence in this country, it makes me sick. In the past, he claimed that a shooter in a previous instance trained on Grand Theft Auto before committing a school massacre. Does this man ever even look at video games? When he went on his tirade about the game Bully on G4, he admitted to never having even SEEN the game! Is there any rational thought to these blanket statements that he makes, every single time a something like this happens? I’m sorry, I must have missed the “school shooting simulation,” first-person perspective level in GTA3.

You know what? My last sentence was even too vague. I don’t care if there was an Army-approved, super-realistic shooting simulation available. Unless someone is PREDISPOSED to violence of this level, absolutely no amount of video game playing is going to make them kill someone. None. I don’t care how many scientific studies this man thinks there are to back his claims. A normal human being will not turn into a maladjusted killer because they played too much Counterstrike. He also says that the “common denominator” in these school shootings is that the killers “trained” on “mass-murder games.” Oh, teenagers were playing video games? That is shocking, absolutely shocking.

And as a matter of fact, there is no record that Seung-Hui Cho at Virginia Tech even played video games. I’m in no way making light of these recent events at all, I’m just so thoroughly disgusted that this man continues to be invited by the media to spout his ignorant, misleading, and incorrect statements to the world. Mr. Thompson, please take some time to re-evaluate what it is you’re doing, and come up with a better, more productive way to help the American family.

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Last Saturday night was Wii Fight Club, and there are four rules:
1. Don’t blog about Wii fight
2. Do NOT blog about Wii fight
3. No Twitter
4. No Dodgeball

Well, I broke three out of four… kind of. In any event, I kicked Ryan’s butt, so it was all worth it! See my victory interview on Geek Entertainment TV’s video of the event, seen above. Hopefully they’ll invite me back after this blog post.

More photos by Scott Beale from Laughing Squid, seen here on Flickr.