Monthly Archives: January 2009

World Of Warcraft Composer Planning Concert

If you can’t get enough of WOW music, then you’re in luck. Jason Hayes, the genius behind World of Warcraft’s music will be performing live in Oslo. JMP Productions, Inc. today announced that American video game composer Jason Hayes will attend the PLAY! concert on October 26, 2007 in Oslo, joining his colleagues Joel Eriksson, Leon Willett, Rony Barrak and Swedish power metal act MACHINAE SUPREMACY. Jason’s music from the video game World of Warcraft will be performed by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Oslo Philharmonic Choir. Jason Hayes is currently working as Music Director for NC Soft the video game company. In his career as a professional composer he created highly acclaimed soundtracks for Blizzard’s most popular worlds of StarCraft, Diablo and WarCraft. His music from World of Warcraft has been a permanent fixture in the PLAY! program since the premiere concert in Chicago 2006. For many years, Jason Hayes has been one of the most famous names in the American video game composition scene. Says Jason Michael Paul: “We are extremely proud to be able to perform Jason’s works as part of PLAY! Jason is a talented musician and composer who has contributed a great deal to our program and to the evolution of video game music for that

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Arcane Brilliance: Leveling your Mage, 70-80

Each week, Arcane Brilliance invites Mages everywhere over for brunch. We serve muffins, sweet rolls, croissants, and enough mountain spring water to wash it all down. Then, for dessert, Arcane Brilliance conjures strudel for everyone, because who doesn’t like strudel? If you raised your hand, you, sir or madame, are a dirty, dirty liar. Everybody likes strudel. About a billion years ago, when Warlocks still ruled the world, back in those dark days before Arcane Barrage, spellpower, and elementalist specs–in that bygone era before Death Knights appeared in Azeroth, bringing with them their ridiculous magic resistances and eighty-seven different ways to silence or interrupt–Arcane Brilliance brought you a series of Mage leveling guides. In those days, we didn’t have any of this crazy “rock music” you kids listen to now, and when we fought Illidan, we had to chain pot. We walked naked twelve miles to school through nineteen feet of snow while fending off wolves and dinosaurs with our bookbags, and we liked it. Things are different now. Nowadays, when you hit level 70, your experience bar doesn’t vanish, never to return. We have ten new levels and an entire new continent to adventure our way through, new talent

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