Two, count 'em TWO game cakes in one weekend! First we had the amazing Katamari cake and now this great WoW cake sporting the symbol of the virtuous Alliance. Pretty damn impressive if you ask me, especially the sculpting of the lion head and the two flanking creatures. In case you were wondering, everything on this cake is edible. The decorations are made with a sugar concoction called fondant which is extremely malleable, but only for a short period of time and then it hardens and that's all she wrote.

Ok, so you probably didn't need an explanation of fondant, but my point is, whoever made this did an incredible job given the materials they had to work with. Cooking class is now officially over. Flynn De Marco

[via Wonderland]

Our own lovely Alice can just straight up go to hell. Did she not read my recent plea for European friends to play World of Warcraft with? Yet despite the fact that she has a level 60 Warlock on the UK Servers, she never once extended me an invitation to play with her.

Otherwise, though, this exchange she recently had with a Horde player rings true.

Yesterday I went to see a buddy down at a certain large satellite-TV company. He brought some game dude friends, and perhaps inevitably, the talk turned to World of Warcraft.

"Alice plays..", said my friend.
"Oh cool," said one of the chaps, "what level?"
"A 60 lock on the UK servers and a 57 mage on the US servers," I said. "Do you play?"
"Yep. Are you Horde?"
"Yes! You?"
"...Alliance."
"Oh."
There was a beat as we assessed this new data. I looked at him, he looked at me.
I grinned:
"/Spit", I said.
He laughed.
Whew. I think perhaps WoW needs to be added to the trio of things you don't talk about at the business or dinner table: politics, religion, income... and Warcraft.

Hey, Alice. CALL ME. Florian Eckhardt

WoW: the new golf ... or the new politics? [Wonderland]

Weary Kotaku Scout, rest your pink-and-chartreuse-seared eyes by laying them on this tasteful graph. There, there.

At right are the charted results of a study conducted by PlayOn, who reports that the ratio of Horde to Alliance players is actually pretty stable. Meaning that Alliance outnumber Horde on PvE and RP servers about 2-to-1, are approximately matched on PvP servers, but that these ratios don't change much.

Of note, while there was a severe Alliance imbalance on the PvE and RP servers, there was a matched equilibrium on the PvP server. Again, neither changed over time.

Server Sample: RP (High), PvE (High), PvP (High)
Sampling Period: July 2005 - January 2006
Sampling Resolution: ~12 minutes
Parsing Method: The sample unit is each unique character in each 2 week period.
Data Filter: Characters above level 1 and who spent less than 95% of their time in a main city.
Sample Size: ~100k characters in each 2 week period

This goes against my assumption, usually strongest after getting mobbed by pallies at Crossroads while my greenskinned brethren stand idly by, that the Alliance are breeding like Ohio schoolgirls. Eliza Gauger

Alliance/Horde Ratios [PlayOn]

Joystiq has word from a source on the E3 showfloor that they've seen the Burning Crusade trailer. The new race? Looks to be The Broken.

The new Alliance race is ugly with grayish skin, and glowing eyes similar to the Forsaken. Its chin has two things like tentacles hanging down, one on either side, and it's humanoid and human-size. There's also a huge picture of Antonidas nearby.

What a great choice. We really like how the expansion is mixing up the good=pretty!/evil=fat and ugly! paradigm in WoW. The expansion already looks set to give WoW a viable virtual prostitution race and now Alliance gets a d rk race. We'll report when this is confirmed.

New Alliance Race WoW Rumours Start Early [Joystiq]

The Project Azeroth wiki has a great page translating phrases in Common Language into Horde. For example, if you want to salute one of your homeys with some pimp speak, you would type out: "ss L t A A F!" ("My NIGGA!") Want to tell that drooling corpse how you really feel about her? "b d b ee oo d a p!" ("I love you!") will get you into her mausoleum. Insult a tauren? "ppp b d b jj!" ("Vile Yeti!")

A little creativity and this handy guide will bring you a long way to healing Azeroth's racial wounds.

Project Azeroth Common -> Horde Translating Guide