Yesterday on Massively: November 20, 2007

Tuesday was full of unanticipated crashes, bugs and problems across the multiverse well as some anticipated downtime. We certainly hope you didn't skip work to get some play time in, as even the highly anticipated FFXI expansion was delayed. However, it wasn't all bad, as yesterday brought the above video to light -- and the idea of William Shatner playing a Tauren Shaman warms the cockles of our hearts. (Although you'd think Blizzard could have at least given him the donut shoulders to go with the Dungeon Set 1 he's got on.)

Features

• One Shots: Only you can prevent Guild Wars fires

• Cinemassively: Hat vs. Barnaby

• The Daily Grind: Platform wars

General news

• Vanguard bonus xp week on now!

• The Guild Wars scribe offers events preview

• DC Online to get Crackdown AI

• Warrior Epic developer sits down for a chat

• The Escapist explains how your guild can avoid a "failure cascade"

• ASU testing Snow Crash for Google?

• CCP launches official Trinity website

• Legends of Norrath TCG Thanksgiving Tournament Marathon Weekend

• Warhammer beta update - part III

• Star Wars Galaxies patched to 7.2, 54 month vet awards added

• Game mechanics: Crafting deities

• Zhengtu Online holds 1 million concurrent users

Final Fantasy XI

• Final Fantasy XI Fan Fest 2007 gallery, from cosplay to concert

• FFXI: Wings of the Goddess and The Version Update take flight

Lord of the Rings Online

• LotRO player creates excellent housing database

• Lorebook entry looks at the heart of evil in LotRO

City of Heroes & City of Villains

• CoX: New web-based display options

• The leet CoV trailer

Tabula Rasa

• Starr Long talks Personal Armor Units

• Tabula Rasa RP bloggers wanted

Pirates of the Burning Sea

• Massively's Pirates of the Burning Sea crafting hands-on

• Lead designer of Pirates of the Burning Sea Q & A interview

• PotBS stress testers can now set sail in the closed beta

Second Life

• Linden Lab not having a good time - nor are the users

• Linden Lab sorry, busy breaking stuff

• Check out 3 Swedish short films in Second Life!

• Virtual bicycles, real cause

• Several Second Life banks hacked - millions stolen
  

• 9th Transgender Day of Remembrance Observed in Second Life

World of Warcraft

• How WoW works

• Mr. T and William Shatner appear in WoW commercials [Updated]

Round-ups

• Yesterday in Second Life, Monday 19 November, 2007

• Yesterday's Money: 19th November

• Wall o' thumbs: new galleries this week

• Yesterday in Warcraft: November 19, 2007

• Yesterday on Massively: November 19, 2007