Star Wars: The Old Republic is Electronic Arts’ most expensive game put together in their 30-year history. The game features Jedis, Wookies, and Siths that are just like the characters in the popular movie series. It is believed that EA put in between $100 and $300 million into this game, but EA has not spilled any information on costs that are associated with development and licensing.

Thanks to the viral video of a nerd asking a question about Falsted missing from World of Warcraft, Blizzard has once again added him. On top of that, they decided to add a character named Wildhammer Fact Checker. The screenshot of the character is above and below is the real-life nerd video. The video below has over 2.6 million YouTube views.

World of Warcraft has hit 12 million subscribers according to a press release from Blizzard Entertainment this past week. Blizzard Entertainment gives a lot of credit to the Wrath of the Witch King, one of the company’s newest releases in China. Blizzard is releasing a sequel called Cataclysm on December 7. [PCWorld]

Hans Olsen is a 12 year old Norwegian boy that used his skills from World of Warcraft to avoid a moose attack. Hans and his sister was going for a walk but accidentally trespassed into moose territory. Right when the moose was about to attack Hans and his sister, the Norwegian boy used the “taunting” Warcraft technique so that the moose would leave his sister alone and run to safety.

Pictured here is a virtual horse that sells on The Blizzard Pet Store for $25. Blizzard made $2 million in sales of the virtual horse within 4 hours. Called the Celestial Steed, it allows WoW players to travel in style. [1up.com]

Adrianne Marie Curry is a American model that is known for being the first model to win at the TV show America’s Next Top Model. Curry is married to Christopher Knight, who is best known as Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch. The two met on VH1′s fourth season of The Surreal Life. After The Surreal Life, her and Knight started dating and were the stars of a show called My Fair Brady. That show ended in March 2008 so now Curry has a lot of free time on her hands. What is she doing now?

“jumping into shower.going to spend my afternoon playing World Of Warcraft butt naked&stoned.Perfect Sunday!” stated Curry on her Twitter account at 4:31PM on December 6th. A couple of hours later, she sent out a TwitPic to prove that she actually does what she tweets: http://twitpic.com/sgom0. The picture has been viewed over 100,000 times already. Not a bad plug for World of Warcraft. Curry is currently an investor in the NowLive radio network.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates is being subpoenaed by Erik Estavillo, whose nickname is “professional plaintiff.” This isn’t the first time that Estavillo filed a crazy video-game lawsuit. About a month ago Estavillo sued Microsoft for $75,000″ for “pain and suffering damages.” His Xbox 360 failed and displayed the notorious Red Ring of Death (RRoD) on the power button. Estavillo claims that the Xbox was only one of two ways that he socialized and the other was online gaming. This is because of his agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) and other stress disabilities.

The $75,000 damages fine “is in relation to the stress put on the plaintiff having to find a way to acquire a new Xbox 360 system and the sadness he will have in the meantime of finding one he can afford. Not to mention all of the lost data that is unrecoverable such as game saves and downloadable content,” according to a complaint pulled by The Seattle Pi.

Estavillo subpoenaed Bill Gates to find out how many Xbox 360 consoles in total have seen the Red Ring of Death. He also wants to know how many of those consoles have been fixed over the past 3 years. And of course he also wanted to know how many Xbox Live users have been banned for piracy.

“YOU ARE COMMANDED to appear in the UnitedStates (sic) district court at the time, date, and place set forth below to testify at a hearing of trial in this civil action,” stated the subpoena. Estavillo previously sued Nintendo for $5,000 over the disabling of cheats in a Wii update because it interfered with his “pursuit of happiness.”

In another lawsuit, Estavillo filed a lawsuit against Sony because his PlayStation Network user name was banned for trolling. He believes that this was in violation of his First Amendment rights.

Another one of Estavillo’s notable lawsuits is against Activision Blizzard, the creator of the video game series World of Warcraft. The lawsuit was for $1 million and he alleges that this game caused his agoraphobia, panic disorder, depression, Crohn’s disease, and obsessive compulsive disorder. In that lawsuit, he subpoenaed actress Winona Ryder and Depeche Mode founder Martin Gore. Winona was subpoenaed because of her interest in the book The Catcher in the Rye, a novel about alienation. Gore was subpoenaed because he is supposedly an expert on alienation.

Estavillo told the Seattle Pi that now he is done with all subpoenas and lawsuits.

Sam Raimi has been signed by Blizzard to direct a World of Warcraft movie. Sam Raimi directed Spider-Man. The Dark Knight’s producer Charles Roven has also been added to the team.

World of Warcraft is currently the world’s most-subscribed massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The game has a subscriber base of over 11.5 million. Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment most likely hope to use the game’s popularity to garner interest in the movie.

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