In the early hours of this morning, Chinese Battle.net went live, and you can now bind World of Warcraft accounts. See the WOW transition official guide for details.

StarCraft has a comic now too — the first issue of the Chinese scanlation re-created by the Sailian Scanlation Group: http://www.transfans.com.cn/thread-1987-1-1.html The Sailian Scanlation Group ...

The Chinese Paladin 3 TV series has been made too, and it’s currently a big hit here in China…

HTML 5 is the next generation of the Hypertext Markup Language. Since HTML 4 was released in 1997, HTML development had been at a standstill, while the Web has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years — so much so that HTML 4 can no longer keep up with today’s increasingly “rich” Web applications. HTML 5 not only addresses HTML 4’s functional shortcomings for Web applications, it also aims to improve HTML’s interactive capabilities and support today’s diverse, complex Web content.

The new Battle.net for World of Warcraft still hasn’t shown any sign of life today, so let’s try a few new games instead. Remember playing The Sims years ago? That cookie-cutter AI really wasn’t much fun at all, and I got bored of it fast. If an online version of The Sims ever came out, I’d be rolling up my sleeves and would definitely have to give it a go. And what do you know — Yangbo Network recently put out a 3D online life-simulation game: Life Online!

Recently, Adobe published the RTMP protocol specification: Official page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/ Download link: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/pdf/rtmp_specification_1.0.pdf

World of Warcraft going offline triggers a “Professor Sheep” career crisis: (Couldn’t find the original author — if you know who it is, please speak up) Click the images below to view them full size

Having gotten bored of every other game, and with WoW’s Chinese servers temporarily gone, I was bored out of my mind. Into this gap stepped Plants vs. Zombies — a plain but adorable, simple but fun single-player game — and it was a real eye-opener. The art is just so kawaii.

I’ve been playing WoW since the open beta, and after the 9C servers started having frequent, mysterious and unstoppable energy fluctuations that made the game really unpleasant to play, I gradually went AFK. After TBC launched, I went back in and played casually for quite a while, but in the end I left again. I once thought WoW could no longer tempt me, but now that I’ve lost WOW, I feel an unprecedented sense of powerlessness — like the Kaldorei Moon Guard losing the source of the Well of Eternity.

Just saw the news on the WoW transition site — NetEase is about to roll out a brand-new Battle.net account system in mainland China:

Warcraft Chronicle: In the explosion of the Well of Eternity over 10,000 years ago, Mount Hyjal in Kalimdor survived, and Illidan released the waters of the Well of Eternity into the lake at the mountain’s summit, turning it into a new Well of Eternity. Later, the red dragon planted an acorn from an oak tree in the new Well of Eternity, and it grew into Teldrassil_ the Crown of the World.

WoW has left us for the time being — I really miss it. Over the past few days I played through the campaign again, starting from Reign of Chaos, and then I stumbled across “The Official History of Warcraft, Audio Edition” on verycd! A real gem from several years back.

“It has been 4 years since The9 and Blizzard fought shoulder to shoulder, together resisting the invasion of countless online games. Though they succeeded in pocketing endless cash from players, the fragile agreement between The9 and Blizzard has long since vanished into nothing. Now, the war drums thunder once again…”

Claire Kuo, the new-generation Taiwanese singer, follows up I Don’t Want to Forget You and The Next Dawn with another pure-love album, Singing in the Trees. The “The Next Dawn” creative team — lyricist Yao Ruo-long and composer Chen Xiao-xia — joined forces again to write her 2009 pure-love title track “Singing in the Trees,” and paired with her fresh new look (a short, sassy haircut), she kicks off yet another wave of ballad fever.

After the release of her second album Dear… I Still Don’t Know, Deserts Chang brought in her bandmates Algae, and the four of them buried themselves in the studio and the recording room for eight straight months. After grinding through that long production period, Deserts Chang’s third all-original album, City, finally hit shelves everywhere on May 22.