Wired News All posts tagged ‘SXSW 2010′ Wired News AUSTIN, Texas — Big players in the massively multiplayer online games space say they don’t need a World of Warcraft killer, as long as they …

VGChartz Preview: Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer VGChartz Warcraft is a culture now. It has entered the mainstream. An MMO can have half the subscribers that World of Warcraft has and still be wildly successful

The devs have been speaking a little a bit about the new mastery system coming with Cataclysm , and while they’ve kept most of the specific numbers vague, there’s been a surprising amount of information one can read between the lines about death knights. Of course, it started with the frost death knight stats. The stats were solidly DPS oriented, providing damage, haste, and runic power generation.

Need For Speed World Preview Game Daily Hearing the words “massively-multiplayer online game” (MMOG for short) conjures up images of World of Warcraft , Aion and Star Trek Online, the fantasy style …

Recently, Blizzard has been supplying us with a lot of information for their plans in Cataclysm . So far we’ve learned about changes to the stat systems , as well as talent trees

WARNING : This post contains spoilers for Cataclysm, the upcoming expansion to World of Warcraft.

Frankly, the Bladestorm nerf is a minor one, albeit an extremely annoying minor one.

Cataclysm rumours/info now in PC Gamer UK VERY BIG Spoilers In the latest issue of PC Gamer (UK) is a 6 page article named ‘50 reasons to play Catalysm’. The vast majority of what is covered is already known/confirmed, however, there appears to be verifcation of certain rumours first made here on MMO-champion in the days before Blizzcon but that were never confirmed nor denied. Just a note on the source before everyone starts screaming for links for scans

Ghostcrawler &amp Eyonix elaborated a bit on the Mastery Preview for Cataclysm.Q&ampA# 1. 28/28/20 spec. Does mastery on gear affect both…

The tenth annual Game Developers Conference is in full swing in San Francisco, CA, and our sister sites Joystiq and Massively are on the scene! No matter what kind of games you’re into, there’s a ton of news on its way out of the convention, and we’re compiling some of the stuff that might matter to you in daily roundups just for you. If you want the whole GDC news experience, check out all of Massively’s and Joystiq’s coverage, or yesterday’s roundup .

Every week, we broadcast live from several places worldwide (several rooms, anyway) to present you with the WoW Insider Show podcast — an hour’s worth of WoW community discussion, covering everything from the week’s top stories here on WoW.com to emails from our readers to what’s been going on with our particular characters in Azeroth. Along with your hosts, WoW.com editor Michael Sacco and contributing editor Matthew Rossi , we also feature rotating guest hosts, whether regular WoW.com contributors or personalities from other sites

Patch 3.3.3 – Jepetto’s new toys! Jepettoy Joybuzz in Dalaran will sell 3 more items in 3.3.3! Your favorite toymaker added the following to his inventory: Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot 50 (Companion Pet) Blue Crashin’ Trashin’ Racer Controller 40 Tiny Blue Ragdoll 10 Blue posts Quote from Blizzard staff Alterac Valley imbalance We have discussed this numerous times. Based on the data we’ve collected over the years after all of the changes that have been made to Alterac Valley, we simply do not agree that there are any glaring imbalances in the map favoring one side over the other enough to easily sway a match one way or the other.

WoW: Mastery System Preview Warcry.com World of Warcraft devs are giving players a preview of the changes coming to the mastery system. Posted on the Battle.Net forums, you can read a bit below: …

We posted yesterday about some of the aspects of the mastery system , a new feature in Cataclysm that will allow players to obtain bonuses to whatever talent tree they choose to follow. Today Eyonix answered a few questions to clarify the system and how it will work with regards to specific classes and abilities: 1

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World of Warcraft : Cataclysm Mastery System Preview IncGamers.com Blizzard has posted an explanation of what to expect from the upcoming new Mastery system in World of Warcraft’s next expansion, Cataclysm. …

Mastery System Preview. Eyonix posted a nice writeup of some things to come with the Mastery System being introduced in Cataclysm, have a read!Last…

Mastery System Preview Quote from: Eyonix ( Source ) Last week, we gave you an early look at the changes we?re making to the stat system in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and explained how these changes will ultimately provide players with more interesting gear choices and make stats easier to understand. Today we?d like to go into more detail about a brand-new feature that?s an integral part of this overhaul: the Mastery system, a set of new game mechanics designed to allow players to become better at what makes their chosen talent tree cool or unique. With this system, we want to accomplish three things: give players more freedom in how they allocate talent points, simplify some of the ?kitchen sinky? talents that try to do too much at once, and add a new stat to high-level gear that makes you better at your chosen role

Ruby Sanctum – Info Compilation / Preview [Spoiler] Most of the Ruby Sanctum have been pushed in this patch and it looks like I have enough data in my hands for a small preview.

In the vein of the World of Warcraft magazine, Massively reports that NCSoft has announced a magazine for the MMORPG Aion. Unlike the quarterly World of Warcraft magazine , the Aion magazine will be digital-only and come out every four weeks, or roughly every month. The Aion magazine also features bonus in-game items for players who pre-order, such as armor dyes and consumables.