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You guys know pretty much what’s going on right now with the Blizzcon tickets. They sold out fast, there was a major fiasco with the whole thing, and now Blizzard is offering 3,000 more tickets for sale but in order to buy them you need to be chosen from a lottery type situation. Details are [...]

Remember how a while ago I posted images of this mysterious Zebra mount and in game spells (in the files) that allowed you to summon another player or grant an extra level? Yeah it’s here hurray!
With the new Recruit-A-Friend program you can earn an exclusive Zhevra mount, receive a FREE month of game time, and [...]

Blizzard has seen fit to give a sneak peek at what’s going to be in the goody bags. Also some more details on my Blizzcon 2008 Spooncraft Giveaway; I will activate a special page on this site and begin collecting registrants on August 10th. After a short while I will announce the winner through a [...]

It might not even be worth mentioning but I figure what the hell. There was a mild Earthquake in Irvine CA that forced the employees over at Blizzard HQ to evactuate. Everybody and everything is fine but still, pretty harrowing little event on a typical Tuesday.

This is the new tab players will be able to see in WotLK on their character screen. As you can see the tokens you get from Battlegrounds as well as Heoirc Badges and any specific Holiday items and such will be held here as currency. It’s very streamlined (and currently bugged like everything else in [...]

Well, Blizzard has finally given us a date when the tickets will go on sale and so as a man of my word I am officially announcing my giveaway of 1 Blizzcon ticket. If we have learned anything from the past it’s that these babies sell out rather quickly.
Here are as many details as I [...]

IRVINE, Calif. – July 29, 2008 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that tickets for its third BlizzCon™ gaming convention will go on sale August 11 and that live coverage of the event will be available as an exclusive DIRECTV pay per view event. BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard [...]

Just a minor update but you know, people dig this stuff and that’s excellent because (like me) they’re putting their hard work on the web for people to either enjoy or shat all over. So here’s the most recent entrees in the Blizzard fan-art board.

All this is coming straight from Kotaku to read more check out their break.
Activision has officially received shareholder approval for its merger with Vivendi. The company said over 92 percent of its shareholders greenlighted the merger, and the transaction is expected to officially close tomorrow.
The merger was first announced in December of 2007, but has [...]

Blizzard Entertainment organized the Worldwide Invitational 2008 event in Paris, France from 28th to 29th July. This video shows a few highlights of the event. Filmed and edited by the great Baron Soosdon. It’s not in English but there are subtitles for us to keep the pace.
As I guessed he is also currently working [...]

Q: Who is eligible for the Wrath of the Lich King Beta opt-in?
A: Any player who has both an active World of Warcraft subscription and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is eligible to opt in to the beta at (https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/beta-opt-in.html). The account must be active when the beta starts in order to be eligible [...]

Taken straight from the headlines of WOR, here’s a little news break way ahead of time. See I don’t think following this path and getting worked up is going to bear fruit anytime soon.
Blizzard has Starcraft II, Diablo III, and Wrath of the Lich King in the pipeline right now so announcing yet another new [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You know I don’t understand how so many people are looking at the new splash screen at Blizzard.com and saying that it’s a lot like the Lich King’s eyes. For starters they’re too narrow and look almost reptilian rather than like those of Arthas. Even further, every single hint given to us by the company [...]

Conspiracy theorists throw all ideas into the toilet today. There are now 3 runes on the image and all of them are easily identified now. Each of the runes represent one of Blizzard franchises: The first rune was indeed from Frostmourne representing Warcraft. The second rune was the Hel Rune from Diablo II. Now the [...]

So I’d like to weigh in on this. Here is an updated image of the Blizzard splash screen. The last time Blizzard did this was when an image (splash screen) was changing bit by bit before the World Wide Invitational last year in 2007, eventually it finished it’s little metamorphisis and revealed Starcraft 2!
But what [...]

WotLKWiki was taken down last week when Vivendi/Blizzard threatened their host into shutting them down. They say that their original hosts, Wikidot, were very supportive throguh the whole situation. They even upgraded their servers just to keep the site up, and did help with legal troubles, however. When Vivendi Universal turned their sights to the [...]

Blizzard is at it again. A new splash screen popped up on http://www.blizzard.com and is probably the sign of an upcoming important announcement since this weekend is the WWI08 in Paris. The last time Blizzard did something like this was for the announcement of Starcraft 2 in last year’s WWI07 in Korea. It’s good to [...]

This news update comes from WOR, I know of a lot of people that like to use Modle Editors to kind of add a certain flare to the game as is. This is pretty big in EU WoW but it’s gotten to a dangerous level of practice. In other words, watch your butt because Blizzard [...]

Big congratulations to the winners of the L70 ETC Music Video Contest. I got the three videos loaded up here for your viewing pleasure. The song will probably be stuck in your head for a long time thereafter.
The recording studio may be closed, and the janitors hard at work cleaning up what’s left of the [...]

Took them a bit of time but Tyren announced today on the General Forums that they’ve concluded their updates and such. Being involved professionaly on their side of the fence I can relate to the frustration this whole thing has caused. They’re getting ready to kick out Wrath of the Lich King later this year [...]

It’s a really well placed argument and it deserves a look. This sort of thing was answered partially in the Blizzcast where Kaplan spoke about how Heroic Badges in the expansion are going to be probably (not set in stone) broken down by Tier. So that you will get different badges for the different levels [...]

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Stuff was down over the weekend, it sucked, but we’re ok. It kind of sucks that we weren’t told it would be down pretty much all Friday and Saturday but I suppose things like this can’t really be predicted.
We’re currently undergoing an extensive maintenance on our web infrastructure in order to provide new features along [...]