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What a week in the World of Warcraft. We’ve had game-breaking bugs, gold ads on the official forums, and there’s a rumor going around that the official WoW mouse might be broken, too. But don’t worry — when things break in Azeroth, as they definitely have this past week, WoW Insider is there to pick up the pieces. Check out our top stories of the past week below.

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The disaster of patch 3.0.8Blizzard’s latest patch is riddled with bugs, from bad to worse.
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An MP3 player purchased for $14.50 (brown Zune?) at an Oklahoma second-hand store had an extra surprise inside—60 files containing Iraq- and Afghanistan-deployed soldiers’ personal info, a mission briefing and base equipment manifests. Score!
Chris Ogle, who hails from the Kiwi town Whangerei, states the device (sadly unspecified) never worked as an MP3 player, and when he plugged it in to diagnose why, stated military files were found. Included in the dump are large lists of deployed soldiers with their SSNs, cellphone numbers and health info, as well as lists of …

I’m fraking being blown away by the last episodes of Galactica, so when I saw this huge Lego clusterfrak of Colonial Vipers and Raptors, complete with a 13-foot BSG hangar, I had to post them.

Some of them are truly great, specially pink Viper and the Raptor with all the Colonial Marines, ready to kick Cylon minifig ass.
This Lego Galactica fest was made with the people below, members ChiefLUG. [Brothers Brick]

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No, the end won’t happen because of the LHC. And it won’t be a doomsday asteroid either. The answer: Sheep. At least one of them. The date: 2012. Hilarious. [Pasion Paris via Drawn via io9]

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Not wanting to be outed by those tricky Activision execs, Metallica has taken it upon themselves to reveal the entire Guitar Hero: Metallica setlist over on Metallica.com. The list (viewable after the break) is comprised of over 25 Metallica songs and over 20 tracks from other “hand picked” bands. Bands including Alice in Chains, Seger, Judas Priest, SOAD, Skynyrd and Britney Spears. Joking, of course, about Spears’ inclusion. Oh, and don’t forget about that second drum pedal.

Continue reading The official rock-n-rollin’ Guitar Hero: Metallica setlist
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Both Spore and LittleBigPlanet are games that ride the “user generated content” train that seems to be so popular these days. Despite the fact that LittleBigPlanet benefited from its appealing central characters and PS3 exclusivity (which always guarantees press and fan attention), Maxis is confident that it still rules the user created content roost, and that LBP hasn’t stolen its hype.
“We’ve had plenty of noise on our day,” claims senior producer Morgan Roarty, “I was already at Maxis for a couple of years working on Spore before I heard about …

It seems that Metallica likes to take charge of promoting products with their name on it. Just over a month ago, they unveiled the debut trailer for Guitar Hero: Metallica on their own site, and last week, they confirmed rumors of the game’s March 29th North American release date on PS3 and 360. And yesterday, after a listing for the game on the ESRB’s Web site let some songs slip, they went ahead and posted the entire set list themselves. You can find it after the jump, including all the …

Although the Windows Team said they were removing the download cap on Windows 7 until Jan. 24, they didn’t mean downloads would end on Jan. 24. Windows 7 will be available through Feb. 10.rnrnYou have to start downloading Windows 7 before Feb. 10, but you have until Feb. 12 to finish it, and product keys will be available after Feb. 12, though they don’t say for how long after. Which essentially means you now have all the time in the world to install Windows 7. You can download it from …

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Rockstar has released two new trailers for the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV “Lost and Damned” DLC, each showcasing one of the episode’s new characters. The first, Billy Grey, is the leader of The Lost, Liberty City’s notorious biker gang. A walking bad attitude with a leather jacket, let’s just state he’s not the kind of guy you’d want hanging around your sister. Or anyone close to you. Or yourself, for that matter. Malc, on the other hand, is a tough customer himself and looks to be a …

Postaboo.com was created this day and right away they want to get into marketing it so I found out about it. You might of heard of some other huge name Canadian sites for buying and selling but Postaboo.com is a new one that is just starting out and looking to build up it’s membership. So if you’re Canadian and looking to get the latest updates about deals and contests and even interact with other Canadians join at Postaboo