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BlizzCon 2009 begins

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Our man in Anaheim right now is none other than the Turpster (apparently the Deadliest Catch boat he grabbed a ride with arrived a bit early), and, jet sealagged as he may be, he found the strength to walk over to the convention center and get you the first pics ...

Blizzard franchises get their own Twitter accounts

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Straight from the Twitter account of Kat Hunter, Blizzard Entertainment's Licensing Project Manager, comes a quiet little announcement that Blizzard's three hot properties now each have Twitter accounts of their own. If you use Twitter, you can now follow @warcraft, @starcraft, and @diablo. All three accounts are pretty bare at the ...

Warcraft Mounts helps you keep track of your corral

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

As a Pet collector, I'm very much appreciative of WarcraftPets.com's Collector's checklist. As a Mount collector, I've always wanted a similar list to keep track of my climb to the Dragonhawk. Today, that want is fulfilled. Mania's Warcraft Mounts now has a collection feature, just in time for all the ...

Blizzard on the Battle.net update

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Activision-Blizzard held their second quarter conference call yesterday, and in addition to addressing the Starcraft II delay, both Mike Morhaime and Activision CEO Bobby Kotick shared some insight into what the revamped Battle.net will be like. The brand new system (which is currently up and working, albeit in a very ...

World of Warcraft Patch 3.2 Mage Guide

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

So...a patch happened or something? I guess it's a big deal. People are excited or whatever. I'm way too cool to show any kind of positive emotion, so...meh. Meh, I say. Ok, I can't keep that up. Patches always make me happy. I've been known to break into song and engage ...

Blizzard fights scammers with TCG mount changes

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Blizzard has confirmed what we have speculated about: the change to make Upper Deck Trading Card Game mounts Bind-on-Use instead of BoP is specifically to combat scammers. Currently, if you have a loot code, you redeem it and then "purchase" the mount from an NPC vendor. The mount immediately becomes soulbound. ...

The dying Hunter?

Monday, July 13th, 2009

The folks over at Ten Ton Hammer have a post with some anecdotal data about Hunters -- they claim that Azeroth's ranged DPS pet class is on a decline lately, and they've got only some guild application numbers to back the theory up. Mem over there says that there are ...