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The site might be going down on and off today as I’m in the middle of some minor reconstructive surgery with it. I’m planning on doing a major redesign on a while but need to make sure all the features are importeed and tested before hand. There’s a lot going on with the real-estate on [...]

June’s month long poll is done. At 202 (million) votes we have the results. I’m happy to say that (by a small margin) World PVP took the 1st place as to what PVP changes people wanted most in Wrath of the Lich King.
Good news is that they’re getting their wish. With the introduction (and finally [...]

Nyhm’s back with another video. It’s been a very long while since his last submission to the masses and although it does seem a little rusty, it’s still a great machinima. I tried screwing around a long time ago in making machinima and it’s a pretty time consuming affair that takes a great deal of [...]

Meetings all morning long, expect updates and news in the 12:00 PM+ hour. Got some details on my little Blizzcon giveaway as well as other stuff. Stay tuned.

Wrath of the Lich King - Northrend BG Preview from el'anon on Vimeo.

Ahh PVP. The lifeblood. Blizzard actually gave us some pretty good insights to the PVP game coming up in Wrath of the Lich King.
Like my previous posts this is a massive dump of information but it’s been organized into something less painful to read. Click “Read More” to see the full post as all of [...]

Here’s the most updated list of information that was disclosed at the WWI about raiding and dungeons in the coming expansion. For the sake of keeping things cropped on the front page I have placed pretty much all the written information after the break. You might see some things repeated moreover but different sources provided [...]

Cru’s comic has been up for a bit actually, he’s on Page 27 at the moment. Teh Gladiators is updated typically every Friday and DLC is still the same while we wait for Keydar to stop being sick so he can write a new comic.

For about an hour there was a grab bag of random questions that Blizzard answered from the fan base. It’s really long but extremely informative so check it after the break.

The new Rock Stars got some much needed detail from the Class Panel. Here are a few points.

Developers don’t want talent trees to be pigeonholed into specific roles. Each tree will be functional both roles. This means that there won’t be a tanking tree versus a DPS tree.
Runes have a 10 second separate cooldown. So [...]

So in a nutshell Warriors are going to be Barbarians from Diablo II, Rogues get an AOE, Warlocks can shapeshift, Druids are getting Dire Cat, and Mages will become walking explosions.
Mage

Mage Armor will be reworked to reduce harmful debuff durations, so that’s a more suitable raid armor. Finally.
New ability: Frostfire Bolt. In itself it’s [...]

Priests actually need a lot of love. They’re a class that’s always been hands down meant to be the best healer and yet they’re pretty underrepresented in the end game raiding scene where a resto shaman, paladin, or druid can pick up the slack and outperform with certain spells. Luckily it seems that all around [...]

Alrighty I’m just going to go down the list from what’s most important to me that was disclosed during the 1st day of the WWI about class changes in Wrath of the Lich King. Now mind you none of this is fleshed out much yet but the signs have been pretty loud all over the [...]

All of this information can be found at Diablo3.com but since the site has been hit hard lately and is very laggy at times, here’s essentially the same facts without the outrageous load time.
Diablo III is being developed as the definitive action role-playing game, and a true continuation of the Diablo series. Players will create [...]

Diablo3 Cinematic Trailer from John Smith on Vimeo.

Sorry for the dead silence today. Weekend’s bout the only time I have to ever really get personal stuff done. So it’s always extra fun when Blizzard and friends decide to dump tons of information on us at the same time as I’m trying to y’know; play the game, see my family some more, I [...]

Nothing major to report, new comic is up to kind of side track you a little bit from my gushing about Diablo 3 and WWI08 and all this other madness going on with WotLK.
Ding!
Also there’s another new one on the WoW Community page too.

Here be a smattering of screenshots. Under each thumbnail I’ll try to explain what the image is. I got these off the DK-info forums and thank Kenzi and all the forum goers at his site for their continued reporting. If I was able to realistically throw forums on this site I’d have done the same [...]

There’s a press release conference going on tonight. Not really sure what’s going on and neither does anybody else reporting from the WWI08 that arrived in France today. But needless to say it’s going to be really freaking crazy.
Also I wanted to share this image,  some maniac posted it in Kenzi’s site and then vanished. [...]

News of the Blizzard Authenticator isn’t necessarily bad, however. There’s no plan to expand this security to all accounts for free.
We currently have only the intention of releasing the authenticator to provide an extra layer of end-user security for those interested in purchasing it. The idea is not to punish players who do not purchase [...]

As the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational approaches, we are excited to announce that the Opening Ceremony (starting at 11:45, Central European Summer Time on Saturday, June 28th), the various tournaments, and the Closing Ceremony featuring Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain and Video Games Live concerts will be streamed live during the event on the [...]

I showed you guys these badass monsters in my previous NPC Compilation Leak. Here’s the official Blizzard lore behind them straight form the Wrath main page.

The same dark sorcery used to command the Scourge’s powerful abominations is utilized to even greater effect in the harsh and distant realm of Northrend. Here the Lich King has [...]

Just a little quickie update for you folks. Barrage incoming after this post.
The US PTR realms are now up and running with the latest 2.4.3 Patch. We are no longer testing Brewfest. We may run another test of Brewfest or other holidays later in the test phase watch this forum for more information. (src)
There is [...]

Who or what are you?
Typical of Blizzard to make everything seem even more vague and unidentifyable the day before their big announcement. Here’s what we got. Ignoring all other factors completely and looking at the image alone; no CSS files, no hidden meanings or conspiracy theories, none of that crap. This image can only be [...]

I’m glad that the Guitar Hero franchise (Activision) is getting to share the WoW love. Lv.70 ETC (Blizzard’s in house band) wrote & preformed the song and there it was showcased with a music video the machinimators at Blizzard made themselves on the WoW Main page a while back. Here it is now available as [...]

BLIZZARD® AUTHENTICATOR OFFERS ENHANCED SECURITY FOR WORLD OF WARCRAFT® ACCOUNTS 2008 ANNOUNCED

 
Keychain token generates unique codes used to help prevent unauthorized account access IRVINE, Calif. –- June 26, 2008 -– Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today introduced an optional extra layer of security [...]

Right now you can ping the minimap by clicking and a little bling will popup there so other people in your group can see where you are directing them. This video however, was taken from the model viewer of the WotLK Alpha and really looks like that little bling will appear on the world which [...]

New Minimap Ping??? from Max Cavalera on Vimeo.

Welcome to another HOLY SHIT moment on Spooncraft.
Just got back home and I’m angry at myself for not thinking about this before. So, the new big announcement that Blizzard is going to make. It could be many different things. So far they have added icons from each of their developed games which could mean that [...]

Just taking this time to thank readers for the support and for visiting the site. It’s been pretty freaking crazy the past two weeks with all the buzz going on in game as well as issues in my life that are taking up a lot of writing time.
I like to think that when I do [...]