I’m no stranger to group storytelling. In high school, I wrote fanfic with a friend, swapping a spiral-bound notebook back and forth. During that same time I was working at a renaissance faire and my inbox overflowed with email threads of in-character letters. When I was in college, I was an active participant in a Star Trek sim. My World of Warcraft guild forums had a section dedicated to roleplaying. And in recent years, after I moved countries, my previously-local friends and I went through a short period of playing Parsely and Dungeons & Dragons via Google Hangouts. So believe me when I say — if you like to roleplay, if you like collaborative storytelling, if you have gaming friends you can’t meet in person, Storium is what you’ve been looking for. 

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Online gaming is not solely the refuge of lonely, anti-social nerd bros like Warcraft guy from that episode of South Park. A new study, surprising no one who actually plays games online, shows that gaming online actually expands players' social lives, instead of limiting them. Almost like you're playing with real people online. Because you are.

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Even HBO isn't claiming responsibility for this sign found in Stockholm. (via Nerd Approved)

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Shh, shh, I don't want to hear about how this second or that was cut out of the video or song, I just want to believe that Elsa's song matches up perfectly with the cinematic trailer to my favorite World of Warcraft expansion, in which the Lich King, an amalgamate identity ruled now by the form of Arthas the Butcher, former prince of Menethil, raises the the unwilling corpse of a mad dragon's consort to join his shambling armies before he rides out to extinguish all life on Azeroth. I want to believe.

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LiberLibelula's redesign of Snow White as if she were a World of Warcraft character would explain why she hung out with all those dwarven men. But there are six other redesigns for you to check out in this gallery. For the rest of Liber's art, check out her DeviantArt page! ...okay, but also, Pocahontas is totally a Night Elf Druid, Stitch is a Goblin, the Beast is a Worgen Warrior, Merida is a Dwarf Hunter, and Ariel is a Human.

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Do we know what Warcraft will be about? Do we know what characters, or even what races, will be in it? No. But we know the motherflippin' Kurgan from Highlander will be there. And that's perfect.

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You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than... Xbox Live? OK, we might not be willing to repeat some of the trash talk we've heard there, but it's a bit amusing to imagine a bunch of intelligence agents deciding that it's a good place to do surveillance for terrorists. It's much easier to imagine they just thought it'd be fun.

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Story Sabatino (Oozn on DeviantArt) has a style that jumped out at me immediately. While she does some wicked fan art inspired by things like Game of Thrones, she also creates wonderful scenarios of her own with some interesting creatures. See for yourself...

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It took Lara Clarke of Tasty Cakes 90 hours to make this 5’5”-tall Captain Jack Sparrow cake. Worth every second, I say. (That’s Nerdalicious)

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Jason Hayes really likes video game music -- as the in-house composer for Blizzard Entertainment, it's sort of his thing. But apparently writing for World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, and Starcraft wasn't fulfilling enough, because now he's got a new project where he brings professional musicians together to perform famous video game songs.

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Woo the Pokémon trainer o' your heart with this ring by Arts & Gems. (Fashionably Geek)

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Deadline has named a whole slew of people whom they say are be up for roles in Duncan Jones' World of Warcraft adaptation. Colin Farrell. Anton Yelchin. And one actress who's transcended my not really caring about a World of Warcraft movie and made me sit up and pay attention.

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Ding! Level up, you've just gained 5000 experience points for coordinating disaster relief efforts. That's the goal of the Internet Response League, a group that hopes to harness the multitude of online gamers to use social media to save lives when natural disasters strike.

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Yesterday was Saturday, and you know what that means: A lot of major stuff went down at San Diego Comic-Con. In all likelihood you were not there. I know I wasn't. But let's power through our bitterness and take a look at what we missed. Need to catch up? Here are While You Were Sleeping '13 parts une et deux.

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If buying expansions and paying a monthly fee to play the World of Warcraft wasn't enough fire to burn a hole in your pocket, then Blizzard has good news for you: Items you can buy with real money are on the way. Players recently found an item purchasable with cash that would grant you a 100% EXP bonus on a public test server. When pressed on the subject, Blizzard confirmed that microtransactions are in the works.

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What's a World of Warcraft orcish stronghold going for on today's market? How would one even begin to put a price on a virtual building? What is the real life equivalent of the Horde capital of Orgrimmar? These aren't questions normal people ask themselves. Thankfully, our friends at Movoto aren't normal. They've crunched the numbers and put a theoretical price tag on Grommash Hold. So, how much would it cost? Let's take a look at the numbers.

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For Video Games Week, Jimmy Fallon offered a heartfelt tribute to World of Warcraft through a 1980's-style pop anthem. Joining him in celebration of the MMO are some famous people such as Felicia Day, Chris Hardwick, and the viral video star "Leeroy Jenkins." There are also some not-so-famous people, like the guy with the horse mask. As a side note-- you know the Lich King was killed two expansion packs ago, right? Yeah. Just checking. (via Blastr)

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