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Ten Ton Hammer - Proposed Death Knight Changes for Patch 3.2.
For tanking, I think that if the PTR notes go live as stated, then they are fairly substantial nerfs to Death Knight tanking. The health and armor drops are fairly substantial and will hurt. Both health and armor are dropping perilously close to warrior and paladin level, but those two classes have shields to help them, while we don’t. Also, cooldowns are the real strength of Death Knight and changes were expected, so no real surprise there. Since Death Knights are still very solid tanks right now, and still dominate end game raiding, it waits to be seen if the changes take them to a level playing field with the other tanks, or remove them from viable play. I personally think they went a little overboard though, and hope they real the changes back a little before 3.2 goes live.

IndustryGamers - Opinion: Should Sony Exit Hardware?
IndustryGamers recently spoke to ngmoco founder Neil Young, who also seemed to think Sony's days in hardware could be numbered. “It seems to me that if you're competing for the living room, and there are three companies competing for it, then one of them is going to have to be on the ropes. In the last generation, it was Nintendo on the ropes, but they were able to rebound with the Wii. I'm not sure that Sony has the same caliber of creative thinkers inside their organization to be able to rebound... I don't know if Sony thinks of themselves as a hardware company or software company, but I bet Nintendo thinks of themselves as a games company,” he said. “So if you're competing in the games space and you need to rebound, then you're going to have to come up with something cool. I don't think it can just be faster, more powerful hardware. As we move through the life cycle of our industry, there are always going to be players that come and go – it happens in publishing and development all the time. I don't see why it wouldn't happen with hardware manufacturers from time to time – it happened to Sega. I think Sony's getting hurt on two fronts as well; they're losing in the living room and on the handset side, and they're a big global company so they're hurting from the recession.”

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