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Sneak peek at Tokyopop’s Death Knight manga
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Not long after Tokyopop announced its 2010 schedule, which actually includes a late 2009 release, BlizzPlanet unveiled scans from the first chapter of Dan Jolley and Rocio Zucchi's World of Warcraft: Death Knight. The story features Thassarian, an NPC first encountered in Ebon Hold and later in the Alliance airship ...
Interview with Paul Sams, Steelers owner
Monday, October 12th, 2009As we reported the other week, Blizzard COO Paul Sams is now co-owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers (who are stepping up lately), and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette hit up Mr. Sams for a quick interview about being at the intersection of Azeroth and Steeler Nation. Turns out the man who collects ...
Which tier 10 bonuses appeal the most to you?
Sunday, October 11th, 2009Blizzard has released information on the upcoming tier 10 sets in the 3.3 patch! Some of the bonuses have changed since their original inception. Set bonuses have been around since vanilla WoW. They were used as incentives to try to unite pieces together and provide extra abilities when you had ...
A WoW player’s guide to Aion
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009So, you're a big fan of World of Warcraft (or at least you were at one time) and you've heard about this new MMO called Aion. "Hmmm, I wonder what that's all about?" you ponder. "Anything similar?" you posit. "What's so different?" Well, we've written a WoW player's guide to ...
Age of Conan – OMG, what did I miss?
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Only their biggest debacle since launch. Another foot / mouth / gun / foot scenario for Funcom. Seems a mis-worded (according to Funcom) event fell to pieces while I was away. I do not know how it totally went down, but I can guess based on the many discussions on the EU ...
Aion’s Early Start So Far
Monday, September 21st, 2009This is what Aion looked like for those of us who managed to log in at around 12:02PM Pacific time yesterday, two minutes past the servers going live. If you look closely, you can see my chanter-to-be Caliban, lost amidst a sea of people acting how they normally do when ...