Yesterday on Massively: December 6th, 2007

Lots of news from all over the place yesterday. Perhaps our favorite thing that happened yesterday was CCP finishing up maintenance for Tranquility for EVE Online's patch, Trinity. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, you should definitely do so. Oh -- and if you see a Wee Little Ship passing through on the way to Minmatar space from Jita, I'd appreciate it greatly if you wouldn't pod me.

Features

• The Daily Grind: MMO of the Year nominations

• Gamer Interrupted: Duos are good for relationships

• Cinemassively: Entropian Rockstar TWO

• One Shots: The shores of Evendim

• Building a Better MMOusetrap: Buildings, barrens and beyond (Part 4)

General news

• Monks, Half-Orcs, and Half-Elves coming to DDO

• EA Mythic picks up a new Director of Community Relations

• Businessweek chimes in on Activision Blizzard

• Warcry interviews Pirates' Content Director on creating a virtual Caribbean

• Jumpgate Evolution producer sets vision for accessibility

• Football (not Soccer) MMO in the works

• Additional notes on the NCsoft Q&A

• Catching up with angels: Q&A with Aion's senior designer

• Your MMO, your brain and your computer

Holiday Gift Guides

• Massively's gift guide for the Star Wars Galaxies player

• (More to come!)

Tabula Rasa

• TR 1.3 patch heralds in big changes on PTR

• Garriott says too many Beta testers hurt Tabula Rasa

Lord of the Rings Online

• Downtime for LotRO will fix Troll and Ranger PvMP

• LotRO DirectX 10 screenshot contest crowns week 3 winners

• LotRO lorebook heads north, finds civilization

Zu Online

Second Life

• NBC covers Second Life with strange results

• University of Leicester: vision of the future

• New Second Life release candidate 1.18.6

• Age verification arrives on the Second Life grid (updated)

• Major Second Life grid failure

• Linden Lab volunteer team opens blog

Discussion

• O Death, where is thy sting?

• What Rase Kenzo means for virtual property

• Why is Second Life not a game?

• The Anti-ding

Round-ups

• Yesterday's Money: 4th December

• Yesterday in Second Life, Tuesday 4 December, 2007

• Yesterday in Warcraft: December 4, 2007

• Yesterday on Massively: December 4, 2007