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Warcraft Movie Interview With Chris Metzen

Warcraft Movie Interview With Chris Metzen

So Gamespy published a really short interview with Chris Metzen about the Warcraft movie.
GameSpy: You’ve just made the big announcement that Sam Raimi will be directing the Warcraft movie. You’re co-producing, so what are your thoughts on the announcement?
Chris Metzen, Vice President of Creative Development, Blizzard Entertainment: We’re all very, very excited about the announcement. [...]

For the Lore Podcast is LIVE!

For the Lore Podcast is LIVE!

I’ve been sitting on this news for a little bit now, but Roger’s made the initial announcement, time for me to catch up.
So I was approached by Roger from WoW Dawgs (a very awesome podcast) to co-host a new podcast involving Lore across various different video games. The other host is Joe from World of [...]

After Action Report: Blizzcon 2009

After Action Report: Blizzcon 2009

We have the day off here at the SpoonCraft world headquarters, but I wanted to post my after Blizzcon report because I was to late to post it on the Dell Community blogs. Better late then never I say, enjoy.
I have to say I had a great time at Blizzcon and already cannot wait for [...]

WoW Cataclysm Gallery (yay!)

WoW Cataclysm Gallery (yay!)

I could put a bunch of stuff here but you just want to see the images right? BAM! Here ya go.
The Barrens gets completely buttfucked for the most part. Half of it becomes this lush mega jungle kind of place, the other engulfed in flames and whirlwinds and such. The Alliance capture tons of land [...]

Blizzcon from the Spooned Point of View

Blizzcon from the Spooned Point of View

So I realized how many massive galleries I have of this weekend and how so many of these pictures are just a screaming mess of blurry shots or bad lighting. One thing I have to hand to Blizzard is that on the convention floor, you might as well be taking pictures with the lens rammed [...]

WoW Cataclsym: Game Systems Changes

WoW Cataclsym: Game Systems Changes

A lot was lumped into the class discussion post I published earlier but there are a lot of details missing. Enter the Game Systems Panel at Blizzcon. This was mislabeled as the PvP Panel but in reality in encompassed PvP and all the other changes such as the new Path of the Titans system and [...]

WoW Cataclysm: Class Discussions Panel

WoW Cataclysm: Class Discussions Panel

Class discussion was pretty much just the buzz word for “everything else” truth be told. It was awesome as all hell to see up close. My camcorder died on me halfway through but imagine if the forums were held in a big grand hall. Ghostcrawler would say something, the crowd would start going fucking bat [...]

WoW Cataclysm: Open Q&A

WoW Cataclysm: Open Q&A

General Changes

More character slots might be added but maybe not for Cataclysm.
You might be able to reorder the characters on your character selection screen at some point.
There are some ideas for “mentoring” to let people of varied levels play together without powerleveling. Things like downleveling yourself to play with them is a possibility but it [...]

WoW Cataclysm: Blizzcon Preview

WoW Cataclysm: Blizzcon Preview

I’m going to try and keep this as organized as possible. There is a lot of information to digest and process through with what feels like an overwhelmingly endless series of implications tied to them. This is just the general preview post I’ll publish out the more specialized topics in a few minutes. Picture spam [...]

Blizzcon 2009: Final Report [updated]

Blizzcon 2009: Final Report [updated]

Its hard to tell what I have and have not posted yet from this year’s Blizzcon. I can’t express enough how amazing the experience was and how it completely dwarfed last year’s events. I’m still in the process of settling in with the family and collecting every single image and video I took that might [...]

Blizzcon 2009 shirts

Making our way to day 2 – blizzcon 2009.

Starcraft 2 / Battle.net discussion

Starcraft 2 / Battle.net discussion

Here are some of the main talking points from this discussion…
-More players on battle.net than WoW
-Account and characters never expire
-See online friends even when in single player/campaign mode
-Introducing a rewind feature
-Improved achievement system
-New system is an “always connected” service: get friend achievement alerts
-Achievement decals can be applied to actual in game units
-All game progress saved [...]

Blizzard 2009 cosplay

There are some hardcore costumes here. Here’s a few random shots we captured:
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Starcraft 2 gameplay area at blizzcon 2009

Lots of pc’s for multiplayer or single player Starcraft 2 play
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Cataclysm video coming soon…

New wow expansion cataclysm confirmed Deathwing is going to fuck us up. Got trailer video now will upload soon
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Blizzcon main stage is huge.

Its hard to convey the scope of how big this is. There are what seems like an endless number of rows full of people waiting to watch the keynote. Check out the photos to get an idea. Keynote starts in 20 minutes.
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Raynor figurine from the blizzcon goodie bag

It’s not a toy- it’s a figurine.

Spooncraft at Blizzcon 09: Thursday Day 00

Spooncraft at Blizzcon 09: Thursday Day 00

Day Zero is pretty much done. Not much in the way of Blizzcon news and such just massive lines, a lot of sight seeing, and some amazing Asian girls. Anyway if you’ve been tuning in to the various channels I have so lovingly laid out for you, then you’re good to go. For those playing [...]

Spooncraft at Blizzcon 09: Amazing Cosplay?

Spooncraft at Blizzcon 09: Amazing Cosplay?

Once in a while you come across somebody who really takes pride in their cosplay, it’s a serious hobby for a lot of folks just like watching a certain TV show or playing WoW is.
Svetlana Quindt (known as Ghostship) is a 23 year old girl in Germany and she is hands down one of the [...]

Spooncraft at Blizzcon 09: Leaving Miami

Spooncraft at Blizzcon 09: Leaving Miami

Alright kiddies we’re done packing here at Spooncraft and a few of the crew has already left to California. Why Jaramillo is flying to San Fransisco is beyond me but I’m sure it’ll work out in the end.
There will be many pictures and updates coming through the Twitter feed. You can see the feed as [...]

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