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 [...]

This was announced last night at about 10:00 PM my time so I was roughly getting started with my binge drinking for the evening. Now it only says it’ll last for roughly a few hours.
We will be performing maintenance on the World of Warcraft website and all related web features beginning tonight at 12:01 [...]

Very few people yesterday got a chance to see what appeared to be an AB test by Blizzard that maybe was not meant to be public, but we got to see what our forums are going to look like when Blizzard switches gears 100% from Burning Crusade to the Wrath of the Lich King. Blizzard [...]

People are (with good reason) wanting some more details pronto on the redone Naxxramus. A lot of us (I did a little bit) got to experience Naxxramus before Burning Crusade and even some that have for the first time at Lv. 70 just to see it. For a long time (I’d say even now) players [...]

Gotfrag posted an interview with Kalgan mostly focused on Arena. Here are some highlights.
The idea of “eSports” has been a big part of Blizzard’s corporate strategy, what impact do you think eSports has on the success from a business side for Blizzard and other game developers? We understand that Blizzard has established a dedicated eSports [...]

There are some regional restrictions to the contests (tournaments etc) in the WWI08 this year. I really don’t see what all the pissing and moaning is about, we get Blizzcon (on the freaking west coast but whatever, still going hah!) and we also have a new contest or tournament popping up every freaking week. This [...]

The official World of Warcraft site has been updated with a new fan created wallpaper inspired by Kil’jaeden. You might recognize this scene as being the one in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne when Illidan is confronted by Kil’jaden.

This is my 3rd post on the subject and I want to correct some mistakes. Well they’re not really mistakes as they were 100% true based on what Blizzard posted at the time. So if they have not been keeping the continuity of their press releases intact from update to update, it’s not my problem. [...]

Just a reminder to people of the article I posted earlier. Straight off the World of Warcraft main page:

We’re pleased to announce that additional tickets for the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational will be available on the Worldwide Invitational website next week.
This year’s Worldwide Invitational will be held here in Europe, at the Porte de [...]

Good news everybody! Maybe the powers that be will grant me enough cash to go to Paris? Hehe probably not but Blizzcon is definitely 100% good to go. (src)
Additional 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational Tickets On Sale Next Week!
We’re pleased to announce that additional tickets for the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational will be available [...]

(src) Ever since the opening of the Dark Portal, the goblins at the Gadgetzan Times have been affected by a significant shortage of reliable, sensible goblins to report on the events and news for this illustrious newspaper. But when crisis looms, goblins get creative….
We’re proud to present the new and improved Gadgetzan Times, ( http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/gadgetzan/mainindex.xml [...]

I’m going to take off the kiddie gloves real quick and talk to you all like adults. For anybody who truly feel they aren’t an adult, please bear with my bluntness. This means Spooner’s going to use big boy talk so check under the cut since you know, I don’t want people to think I’m [...]

So here’s some speculation. Blizzard (Vivendi Games) has stated that Wrath of the Lich King is going to be released in the second half of 2008. Now if this is the case then I’m pretty sure the Beta Key that you’d get for attending Blizzcon (goody bag) won’t be for WOTLK. Starcraft 2 has already [...]

The age of the game is starting to show in regards to visual effects and yet I don’t really have any complaints. I showed you folks a macro that can (pending strong enough hardware) really vamp up your graphics in game. This time around it’s something different. During the interviews with WoW developers, Eurogamer got [...]

Along with our Machinima contests, we are holding a Worldwide Invitational Fan Art contest! To enter, simply send us your best fan art of any character, event, setting, object, or scenario from any Blizzard game. You can read more information and guidelines here!
We will be announcing more details for additional contests during the next [...]

UPDATED! - All realms are now online and available for play. Thank you for your patience.

We will be performing urgent maintenance on the following realms to resolve a hardware issue beginning at 12:15PM PDT. We estimate that these realms will be playable again by approximately 2:15PM PDT. (src)

Here you go folks, yesterday Blizzard added some new fan art to the official site.

I have to give credit where it’s due and as always Teza does an amazing job at helping make sense of the random feeds of information we all get. It’s a lot like looking at the matrix sometimes and even though I do a pretty good job of filtering through the crap, this is too [...]

Guess there is justice left in this game. Recently Blizzard did some major hammering on a win-trader (somebody that cheats the Arena system by trading wins with another team to manipulate their points)
It’s not just win trader either. If you’re caught selling spots on your team to help somebody get points, you’re getting the [...]

Blizzard has officially dropped this press release.

PARIS, France. May 12, 2008 — Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced plans for its third BlizzCon™ gaming convention, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 10 and 11. BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment®’s Warcraft®, StarCraft®, [...]

This argument has been kind of simmering on the forums for a little while now, I even posted a video a while back where a shaman was multiboxing so he could preform wicked awesome lazer shows in Orgrimmar for tips.
But what is Multiboxing? Multiboxing is when someone uses either a program or a “splitter” to [...]

Hey congrats to the folks over at Blizzard and all the other winners of the Webby Awards.
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The 12th Annual Webby Award winners have been announced, and the Toyota Tacoma commercial featuring World of Warcraft has been selected as the People’s Voice Winner in the Online Commercials category. The online spot, along with the winners [...]

Woohoo TOUCHDOWN! Get them pencils my little budding artists, Blizzard is willing to give one Grand Prize Winner a brand spanking new Frostmourne replica as well as guaranteed entry into the Wrath of the Lich King beta test. Two runner ups will also get into the beta but will not get the runeblade.

You’ve seen [...]

I imagine that they would have a much more evolved version of the method in which I check for Blue posts to find certain subjects that need special attention, but the end result is the same. However the loudest of all the community (the forum troll scum of the earth) constantly lay claim that Blizzard [...]

The countdown is over! The big news is this, Blizzard Entertainment purchased the domain name for Diablo3.com! The Diablo3 site has been renamed Diablo Fans, Blizzard did not announce that they are indeed officially working on a sequel to the acclaimed Diablo series but it leaves the mind to wonder, why all of the sudden [...]

Blizzard launched the recruit a friend campaign a while ago and it’s always there on your account management page. It’s a fun little option to help get somebody into the game with you and allows for a few perks. According to the changes made to some files listing error messages in the game, it looks [...]

This is one time that I am 100% on the same page as Blizzard on a decision. It would honestly make no sense at all logistically and through gameplay to have the option to change your character’s race or gender. It’s enough we’re going to be getting new dances, new hairstyles, and the ability to [...]

Just some eye candy for you, seems people are digging the Death Knight look.
   

Time to shake the very foundation of the Blizzard world. As if World of Warcraft wasn’t enough of a raging juggernaught, BlizzPlanet (known to have a very close relationship with Blizzard) and Diablo3.com are both displaying a countdown with ten days left on it, May 1st being the end of the countdown.
What’s going to happen [...]

Heres just some collected updates and information on the Arena Tournament realms for those interested.
What are all the extra servers for? We continuously prepare ourselves to meet the needs of our player base and part of this means having extra realms available if they are needed. We have put a lot of effort into the [...]