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Archive for July, 2007


Number of World of Warcraft Subscribers Surpasses 9 Million

Blizzard announced on Tuesday that their widely-popular World of
Warcraft MMORPG has surpassed the 9 million subscriber mark, an
unprecedented number for an MMO game.
The company is set to
release The Burning Crusade expansion pack for mainland China in the
coming months and expects an influx of new and returning subscribers as
a outcome.
Since first debuting in North America on [...]


Blizzard’s BlizzCon survival guide

BlizzCon is set to be one of the biggest events to hit the worlds of Warcraft and Starcraft, with 8,000 attending the last BlizzCon and tickets for that one already sold out. Held for two days on August 3 and 4 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, the event will be holding contests and [...]


Button optimization in World of Warcraft

 
If your character uses a lot of skills or spells in World of Warcraft, you can expect that when you hit level 70 the screen will be cluttered with many buttons. The question is now posed: How does one optimize the hot keys to ensure minimum clutter on the screen as one plays the game?
A [...]


DC Announces World of Warcraft Comic

DC Comics has made it official: through its WildStorm label, the powerhouse comics publisher will release a series based on World of Warcraft. Here are the relevant names: Walter Simonson, writer; Ludo Lullabi, pencils; Sandra Hope, inker. The first six issues of the series will printed with two difference covers, one by veteran artist [...]


A look at the depths of Serpentshrine Cavern

 
Those of you in Blizzard’s WoW expansion,Burning Crusade, are already familiar with that dark, dank little spot called the Serpentshrine Cavern. For those of you who haven’t visited it yet, that screen is for you.
Serpentshrine Cavern is the inner sanctum of Lady Vashj and her astute cohorts. You can’t walk right into that place, as [...]


WoW tool: phpRaider v1.0.0 Public

For the guys in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft MMORPG trying to organize their motley crew into an organized fighting force, we’ve got an announcement that might help. SpiffyJr has just announced that phpRaider has now gone public, and is available for download for guys who are members of the phpRaider site.
In case you’re wondering, phpRaider [...]


World of Warcraft: Eyonix gives tips on Malchezaar

  
Every World of Warcraft raiding guild has hit a wall at least a instance or two during their raids. We found one such example in the WoW Forums as Doru from Uther complained about Prince Malchezaar being “frustrating and cheap”.
The basic frustration about the said instance comes in two forms: crushing blows and infernal spreads. [...]


Patch 2.2: Blizzard planning Oktoberfest event?

Is Blizzard planning a new in-game event for World of Warcraft? That appears to be the latest speculation being discussed among the guys by at WoW’s Public pop quiz Realms, which indicate that patch 2.2’s notes included a hefty amount of new spells categorized under “Brewfest.”
Notable (and rather self-explanatory) spells spotted in the list include [...]


WoW Forums: How does Blizz plan to police VoIP?

With World of Warcraft’s patch 2.2.0 recently going live by at the Public tryout Realms, one update that’s been drawing plenty of attention is Blizzard’s upcoming in-game voice chat support for groups and raids.
And even as the developers are already asking the player to assist in helping them spot any possible VoIP-related bugs, the community [...]


English European realms about to open for paid transfer in WoW

If you’ve been finding your realm in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft
a bit too crowded, you could always pay to have your character moved to
a different realm. that might be the perfect date to do so, since quite
a few new realms have been opened for character transfers.

If
you’ve never transferred a character before, you should know that
Blizzard [...]


World of Warcraft Patch 2.2.0 goes live on PTR

 
Blizzard poster Hortus went on the World of Warcraft Forums to post the patch notes for the newest WoW patch: 2.2.0. Yes, we’re moving past 2.1.0 and its subsequent bug fixes and other changes.
So what’s new with patch 2.2.0? Well, a lot. Changes were made to crowd control durations in PvP, like the mages’ [...]


WoW: Mage PVP/Arena guide on video

 
While I’m pretty certain that most of the players are not too inclined to reading a well-made strategy guide for Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, it sometimes helps whether you’ve got a good amount of visual aids to help in understanding the concepts and principles behind each movement. Well, whether you feel that way, soon after [...]


Blizzard releases WoW Patch 2.1.3

Blizzard just released a new patch for World of Warcraft and is mostly concerned about bug fixes, not to mention the usual improvements that comes with such releases. Some attention was additionally given to graphic changes, including the ones recently brought up by players by at the MMO game’s official community site.
Anyway, adequate talk [...]


Thomas Tull on the World of Warcraft movie

Legendary Pictures chairman and producer of 300 Thomas Tull and
game publisher Brash Entertainment CEO Mitch Davis recently delivered
the Hollywood & Games keynote entitled Driving Mythology
Forward. They gave a very riveting speech on the difficulties in
crossing by from one medium to the next, but what might interest most
humans though is Tull’s [...]


World of Warcraft running on iPhone

Alan Joyce of EverythingDigital.org uploaded a video clip by at YouTube showing Blizzard’s World of Warcraft running on Apple’s iPhone. He was able to do it with the help of Telekinesis, a third-party streaming program that allows users to remotely access their Macs through a collection of mini web applications on the phone.
Joyce noted [...]


Never get drunk in WoW again: turn glow effect off

Many would argue, but that blurry glow effect in World of Warcraft can get annoying. We’re talking about what happens when you drink too much ale, get poisoned by spiders, or other events that cause your character to feel all fuzzy. Before you get into some forum-spamming rage, try looking at your Video Options first.
That’s [...]


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