Yesterday on Massively: December 17, 2007

What a busy day yesterday! Of course, one can count any day successful in which you get to discuss exploding sheep. Well, okay, it was a small-scale explosion (implosion?) at Electric Sheep, but you can't blame us for trying. "Exploding sheep" is just fun to say. Baa! Don't forget; if a game has more than two stories on it, it lands in its own category, so be sure to check the stories after the jump!

Features

• The Daily Grind: On gateway games

• MMOGology: Fat sacks 'o crap!

• Cinemassively: Odissea the Musical in Second Life

• One Shots: The Arks of Harmony

Contests

• Massively's holiday postcard contest

• Massively's holiday giveaways!

• Enter to win a FigurePrints (and oh yeah, a laptop) from WoW Insider

General news

• Final Fantasy XI hacked; Square-Enix hides behind policy

• Warhammer Online player-mounts displayed in concept art gallery

• Video games treat chronic pain better than drugs

• A legal, in-game "Wal-Mart" of virtual goods coming to an MMO near you

• Watch out for that MMO stalker...

• A glimpse of things to come from 38 Studios

• Electric Sheep Company lays off 1/3 of their staff

• Ten Ton Hammer Tabula Rasa Dev Forum Q&A #3

• Former STO designer: Star Trek might be "hardest MMO IP ever"

• Huxley: In-game hyper-active footage from the Korean beta

• Lorebook describes things older and fouler than orcs

World of Warcraft

• Blizzard tells trial account users to shush

• Teach someone to order fish online and they'll never go hungry again

• Christmas time in Dun Morogh

Stargate Worlds

• Morality plays a part in Stargate Worlds' quests

• Stargate Worlds designer dodges questions, gets back to work

Second Life

• Must see: Grendel's Children

• EDUCAUSE offers Virtual Worlds Constituent Group - Second Life membership growing fast

• Nominate your favorite Second Life newbie to receive 10,000L

• New Second Life Windlight release - 1.18.6.75762

Discussion

• Are MMOGs escapism or a refuge?

• People in NA/UK actually play Lineage II?

Round-ups

• Yesterday's Money: 16th December

• Yesterday in Second Life, Sunday 16 December, 2007

• The weekend in Warcraft: December 14 - 16, 2007

• This weekend on Massively: December 15 & 16, 2007

• Massively weekly highlights