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From the category archives:

World of Warcraft

Wickerman Balance

October 27, 2008

Horde: run into the Inn while massive amounts of guards spawn whom you must kill to do your quest. Get ganked by a handful of Alliance standing around feeling very strong. Get camped and spit on. Run back a few times (quite a hike) until you manage to drop some stink bombs and stink up [...]

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Si non tacuisses etiam

October 7, 2008

Of life’s greatest mysteries one befuddles me to no end. No, I think I can leave Quantum Mechanics to the experts and all I need to know about the beginning of life has to do with contraceptives and how to assist delivery if I ever get stuck in traffic while driving a taxicab.
My mystery has [...]

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Why You Won’t See Me At BlizzCon 2008

October 6, 2008

Days are counting down until BlizzCon 2008 and I have, sitting on my table next to me, all it takes to get in. Stamped, signed, and duly mailed to me, I am the owner of two primo ultimo press admissions to, what some describe as the event for Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo afficionados.
I won’t be going.
Considering [...]

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More on Warhammer bleeding into WoW

October 6, 2008

I’ve talked about this on end before, but figured I’d spend some more time comparing and contrasting changes to WoW since the early beta releases of Warhammer. Beginning with 2.3 or so, I noticed some changes to the game echoing ongoing Warhammer developments but couldn’t say much, Beta NDA and all that. Now, with Warhammer [...]

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Tigole on PvP and Battlegrounds

October 3, 2008

From Tigole’s post:
But past that, we are exploring ideas that would involve expanding our Battleground content in future patches and beyond. We believe we have some strong ideas for improving Battlegrounds and PvP as a whole in the game and we’re definitely going to focus on improvements in the future. Now, it’s very early to [...]

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Oh, Kalgan…

October 3, 2008

Nary a person or topic to get me started on what’s wrong with Game Design these days and why World of Warcraft had a bad influence on the design process of games overall (luckily, I must say, Warhammer broke this rut - of course not without introducing their own idiosyncracies, but that’s what makes the [...]

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Will Wrath be the Wrath of the Last Expansion?

September 26, 2008

Don’t write Blizzard’s eulogy just yet, 12 million players is more than enough to prove a stable and booming subscriber base. But, alas, there’s a new voice slowly whispering its way up the ranks of weblogs and forums, asking wether the likely unfinished product that is Wrath of the Lich King will herald Blizzard’s slow [...]

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Wrath Release Date: Nov. 13

September 15, 2008

Three little birds (and one fat, fat, one) have sung us a song of release. Wrath will be available in stores on November 13th. This exclusive tidbit wasn’t obtained via an official Blizzard press release, mind you, but from sources whose reliability varies from “I dunno” to “OMG, quick, buy Vivendi stock”.

Our first “informant” is [...]

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