It looks like on the Werner server /tells and Command chat are not working while Squad, Local, Broadcast, /comsan, and comxx are up and running.
The Dev Team is aware of these problems and currentrly working on a fix.

US players can finally order their copy of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade at the Blizzard online store . Some Collector's Editions are also available.

The network infrastructure changes have been completed and Tranquility has returned to full service. A list of yesterday's tasks included:

• The addition of more multihoming capability for Tranquility,
• Replacment of older routers, switches and load balancers with new equipment,
• Upgrade to Cisco Bladecenter architecture, thus providing a roughly 700 Gb backbone in the data center,
• Installion of a new service pack for the Tranquility database, and
• The addition of 6 new servers for present and future improvements of the Billing system.

Yesterday January 4th 2007, a patch intruduced the following changes on the EverQuest 2 servers:

• The Windows Key blocker will no longer occasionally disable itself over time.
• You should now be able to complete the Blade of the Fae quest after you failed the final fight for the first time.

According to this post on the EverQuest official forums, after Game Update 31 players will be able to put all master strikes into one spell.

Today's update on the Runescape servers increased the power of a quest reward item and of the Magic Carpet, fixed a bug and introduced Barbarian Assault, a new members only minigame.

A small patch introduced yesterday solved the annoying problem with the inventory that some players were experiencing.

On his latest blog entry Tobold discusses the new World of Warcraft LFG system. Apparently nobody is using it.
"I am sometimes a bit surprised about how conservative MMOG players are, having problems accepting changes to the interface, even if they are to the better. I would say that new LFG system is quite good, especially in combination with the new functionality of the meeting stones to teleport. You can now easily find somebody for a dungeon group, regardless of their current location, and teleport them to the dungeon instantly, if at least two group members are already there. That should be a lot more popular than it is. I just hope that the expected popularity of the new Burning Crusade dungeons will break the ice."

When fighting NPCs in EVE Online it is very important to be able to tank the right type of damage and to hit the weakest spots of your enemies. If you ever wondered what type of damage the Angel Cartel ships mostly inflict, or what kind of ammos is better to use against a Caldari Navy cruiser, you might find this guide to NPC Damage Types useful.

Tomorrow the EVE Online Tranquility cluster will be brought offline for about 12 hours to allow network infrastructure changes and database server software updates.
During the following 12 hours the network connection with the game server might be unstable, for the reason CCP announced that users logging in the 4th January 2007 will be playing 'at risk' and will not be reimbursed for losses incurred by upgrade related issues.

After the last DAOC patch notes for 2006 of a few days ago, here is the last Grab Bag of the year.

From the UO.com FYI webpage: "We have found an uncommon bug with the Gingerbread house that causes it to break/disappear when it is redeeded. It is unlikely we'll get a fix out before the holidays, so please avoid redeeding your Gingerbread house at this time."

So in case you have a Gingerbread house and were planning to redeed it, please wait for an official announcement that the bug has been fixed.