Vaneras announces closure of four European servers (2)
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Filed under: Realm News, Realm Status, Blizzard, News itemsEuropean CM Vaneras made an interesting announcement just the other day: Four EU realms will be closing entirely with Patch 3.0. The EU realms Molten Core, Shadowmoon, Stonemaul, and Warsong will be closing up shop, and free character transfers will be offered to other, currently unannounced EU realms. The destination options will be announced within the next week.Don't worry, though. These realm closures have nothing to do ...
The Digital Continuum: Five attention-stealing MMOs (1)
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Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Super-hero, Opinion, The Digital Continuum Throughout this year there hasn't really been an MMO released that's became a stand-in for my main game, which I actually don't even have as of right now. So with the summer's end nearing, I thought a look six or so months into the future releases would be an interesting topic. I know what some people may be thinking, Age of Conan did indeed come out ...
Balance Tree … Uprooted and Transplanted (1)
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Incredible, shocking, awe-inspiring changes to the Balance Tree. The changes summarized below were derived from a comparison of the recently updated official talent calculator to the not-yet-updated WoWHead calculator for WotLK. Tier 1 Nature’s Grasp is being made a base ability for all Druids. « Source » Nature’s Grasp been replaced with Genesis: Genesis (5-point talent) Increases the damage and healing done by your periodic spells by 1/2/3/4/5%. Tier 2 Control of Nature is being ...
Joystiq interview: World of Warcraft's Tom Chilton (1)
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Filed under: PC, Interviews, MMO We were given the opportunity to sit down with the Lead Game Designer for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath Of The Lich King, whilst attending the Leipzig Game Convention in Germany. Check out what Tom Chilton had to say about the rationale behind level 55 Dark Knights -- and why Warcraft III fans will love Lich King -- in our brief chat below.What will you be putting in ...
Online retailers point towards a November 4 release for Wrath (2)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, News items, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King We'll begin this post with the usual: this is Blizzard we're talking about, and Blizzard doesn't release games or the dates they'll start selling those games until they're good and ready. So any speculation about Blizzard's release dates, is, by its nature, pretty useless -- if Blizzard wants to announce at BlizzCon that Wrath isn't coming out until January, they will.However, ...
Joystiq interview: World of Warcraft's Tom Chilton (1)
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Filed under: PC, Interviews, MMO We were given the opportunity to sit down with the Lead Game Designer for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath Of The Lich King, whilst attending the Leipzig Game Convention in Germany. Check out what Tom Chilton had to say about the rationale behind level 55 Dark Knights -- and why Warcraft III fans will love Lich King -- in our brief chat below.What will you be putting in ...
Furor and Powershifting in Wrath (1)
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I haven’t been documenting the recent commentary and Blue posts related to powershifting, so to catch you up to speed, here is a quick summary: Powershifting was an unintentional game mechanic whereby a Feral Druid at 0 Energy would shift out of Cat Form and back in to gain the 40 Energy from Furor. The ability to do this was limited by the Feral Druid’s mana pool, of course, but it was a common tactic ...
EA: You don't need $1 billion to compete with WoW (2)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Economy, Expansions, Burning Crusade, Making money, Wrath of the Lich King You just need $100 million to beat it. No, we're kidding -- after Activizzard founder Bobby Kotick's presumptuous statement a few months ago that any game company would need at least half a billion dollars to challenge World of Warcraft, EA/Mythic's Mark Jacobs has responded in kind on the eve of their big Warhammer Online release, telling MTV Multiplayer ...
Lich King: 1-70 must be faster to prevent “intimidation” for new players, says Chilton (1)
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WoW: Wrath of the Lich King lead designer Tom Chilton has defended Blizzard’s decision to reduce the time it takes players to reach level 70 once the expansion is launched, saying that the game mustn’t become intimidating for new users. Wrath of the Lich King will see the game’s level cap increased to 80. “I think what [...]
World of Warcraft will slowly update graphics to stay fresh (29)
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Filed under: Mac, PC, RPGs, MMO When a company has one of the most successful MMORPGs games of all time, the last thing anyone there wants to do is throw a wrench into what the customers' rigs can handle. To that end, the Blizzard team explained in a few interviews last week that World of Warcraft's graphical updates will happen over time with expansions. Don't go expecting something like World of Warcraft 2 or a ...
Bambi brings vengeance to Wrath of the Lich King (1)
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Filed under: Mac, PC, MMO Perhaps the vagaries of reality have finally taken hold and you've done it. You've canceled the WoW account. Now you're back together with the Mrs., you've re-memorized all your kids' names, and you've got something that approximates steady work. Life, it would seem, is perfect. Then you heard the siren call of Wrath of the Lich King and - what is this? - you shut it out. Fine ... be ...
WoW Getting Lich King Content Early - Haircuts For Everybody! [Wrath Of The Lich King] (3)
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Eyonix over at the official World of Warcraft forums has dropped some details about a new patch due to be released "in the coming weeks" that slips in some of the new Wrath of the Lich King content before the release of the eagerly anticipated expansion pack. Included in the patch are nifty new features like barbershops in all capital cities, allowing players to change their look, Stormwind Harbor and new zeppelin towers outside Ogrimmar ...
End Game Feast versus Famine (1)
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We have seen a lot of reactions to the impending release of the second expansion to our favorite addiction, World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King. I wanted to go into the two 'extremes' when it comes to the end game pre Wrath. The two extremes I am seeing pretty nicely equate to feast or famine. Feast - Let's get as much done as we can before Wrath comes and we move onto the ...
Blizzard announces Pre-Wrath content patch (1)
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Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Events, Blizzard, News items, PvP, Expansions, Classes, Talents, Buffs, Wrath of the Lich King, Arena Hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen. In a sign that Wrath of the Lich King is quickly moving toward release, Eyonix officially announced today that we will see a new content patch "in the coming weeks." This patch will introduce a good portion of the old world Wrath-related content and UI improvements, ...
Phasing is the new instancing (2)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Lore, Wrath of the Lich KingIn an interview with Eurogamer, Blizzard's J. Allen Brack revealed just a little more about the advancements developers have made with Wrath of the Lich King. As I raved about in my post about the Death Knight starting experience, I effused about how the entire experience was instanced, creating a feel of progression through the world. It turns out I was wrong. The Death ...
Lady Sylvanas' model updated (1)
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Filed under: World of Warcraft, Betas, Fantasy, Video, Events, in-game In one of the more unexpected moves in World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion Wrath of the Lich King, Lady Sylvanas, leader of the Forsaken, has finally gotten a new look. Lore purists have argued about why she was modeled on the Night Elf model when Sylvanas was originally one of the High Elves. (Thus her look should have more closely resembled Blood Elves from the ...
Engineering fun builds up in Beta (4)
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Filed under: Engineering, Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King New schematics are finally in for Engineers in the Wrath Beta, with the exception of the eagerly anticipated and widely speculated upon motorcycle. Despite the glaring absence of The Hog, there are a bunch of neat stuff for Engineers from the basic -- such as the space-saving Hammer Picks and Bladed Pickaxes -- to the cool and complex, such as MOLL-E, a portable mailbox. ...
Traces of the Wrath cinematic found ingame (1)
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Filed under: Undead, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Bosses, NPCs, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King Just in case, like me, you were wondering just what happened in the cinematic for Wrath of the Lich King yesterday (wait -- Arthas puts Frostmourne in the ground and a dragon comes out?), it looks like we're likely to get some answers. We didn't exactly see any familiar player characters or races in the trailer, but apparently the ...
Around Azeroth: The plan (2)
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Filed under: Gnomes, Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries, Wrath of the Lich King Was all of Wrath of the Lich King designed while watching Comedy Central and Adult Swim? New death knights need to kill Mayor Quimby, some mobs drop ground gears (a probable Family Guy referenence), and now the gnomes in the Borean Tundra are stealing their plans from South Park. The Wrath questlines are beginning to strongly resemble my DVD collection. Anyway, Namus of ...
Wrath Of The Lich King Opening Cinematic [World Of Warcraft] (3)
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Don't like WoW? Not up to date on the latest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King? Doesn't really matter. Blizzard's cinematic sequences are normally great viewing whether you like the game or not, and this, their latest, is no different. It's really great.
