As promised, the 5.1 update for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is now available, and will include new daily quests, PvP outpost captures, new Reputation grinds, and pet battle twinks, among other fixes.
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A web domain for 'Project Blackstone' was once owned by a Texas resident but they let it expire last year, according to WHOIS records, but now Blizzard has snapped it up this week. There are no webpage connections to the domain as of yet; Blizzard are just sitting on it. There's little to no reference to 'Blackstone' in any lore created by the studio.
Blizzard's Warcraft will be brought to the silver screen by Duncan Jones, who has directed sci-fi films Moon and Source Code. He accepts the challenge of making a "proper MOVIE of a video game." Charles Leavitt has penned the script for Warcraft, which is being kept very secret. Filming should begin in late 2013 for 2015 release. It's rumoured Johnny Depp might be involved.
Activision-Blizzard has announced that the publisher enjoyed major profits in both the last quarter of 2012 and 2012 as a whole, thanks in part to the amazing sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
During Activision's Q4 Calendar 2012 Results conference call, it was confirmed that Blizzard is working on an unannounced MMO, along with Blizzard All-Stars.
World of Warcraft has changed massively across the last few years. Activision realises many users frequent the title less often and continue to roll out updates in order to keep things fresh.
Blizzard Entertainment has officially announced the dates for this year's BlizzCon nerd-gasm event, where attendees frothed at the mouth will get to play the latest of Blizzard titles and buy merch. There'll be eSports grand finals with pro-gamers, as well as more casual and amateur competitive gaming. Ticket availability and pricing will be announced closer to the event.
Blizzard has affirmed that World of Warcraft, now knocking on nine-years-old, won't be slowing down in terms of new content as long as there are so many players to keep feeding new stuff. The latest "huge patch", 5.2, is proof of their commitment and it's what fans can expect "year after year." The studio admits they need to battle the idea that official support will be drying up.
Blizzard is offering World of Warcraft players free character migration after some of the most popular servers continue to experience queues.
Prepare yourself, gamer. Blizzard will be throwing open the mighty gates of BlizzCon ticket sales at precisely 7pm PST on April 24th, meaning you've got a whole second to react or be left crushed. Of course there is always another chance when the second batch becomes available 10am PST April 27th. These BlizzCon tickets go fast - super fast. They sell for $175 f you've the cash.
Raid fans in World of Warcraft can finally enjoy the fourth and final section to the Throne of Thunder raid content which was added with the 5.2 update. It has been opening up in a staggered release, which is the tradition. Now players can finally face off against Lei Shen, the main bad guy of the piece. Pinnacle Of Storms is the last section, joining the other three. Get your rotations ready.
Activision has revealed in their call to investors that the first quarter of 2013 has resulted in 1.3 million less subscriptions to World of Warcraft. Back in 2010 it commanded 12 million subscribers. Around 8.3 million today continue their subscriptions to Blizzard's MMO champion, which still holds the Guinness World Record for most popular MMO ever. Activision know it's all downhill.
Free-to-play games aren't some fad, they're getting bigger and now starting to nip at the heels. Xfire has stated, in a recent report, that F2P with micro-transactions are becoming mainstream among gamers. Xfire runs a free chat and server browser client and has seen their World of Warcraft numbers tumble, while League of Legends rockets upward. The "rapid ascension" of F2P took them by surprise.
The latest update to World of Warcraft is this week with Patch 5.3. It tweaks a number of things as well as adding all-new stuff like Heroic Scenarios and a continuation of the legendary quest line. There are also several new mounts like the Enchanted Fey Dragon. Four new scenarios, a new battleground and a new arena await in 5.3. Pandaria now levels up all mining and herbalism.
Blizzard has announced that the 5.3 update for World of Warcraft, "Escalation", is now live. Along with the usual class tweaks (or nerfs, as most WoW players will complain), the update adds four new Scenarios each with a new Heroic mode, and Heroic modes for 2 existing scenarios.
Producer Charles Roven has announced that the planned World of Warcraft movie will begin shooting early next year, with Source Code's Duncan Jones directing the project. Details remain under wraps. The game-to-film has suffered plenty of setbacks but looks like it finally has a chance at getting on the silver screen. It's believed a 2015 theatrical release is the most likely.
With RIFT going free-to-play, is there any future in subscription gaming?
The Mobile Armory for World of Warcraft is suffering from alleged hacking where player gold is being spent through unauthorised payments on inflated junk items. Blizzard has closed the Auction House. Officially the AH is "down for maintenance" on those realms affected, and Blizzard GMs have been telling users to add SMS Protect to their accounts. Just another day in Azeroth.
The hacks against the mobile armory app for World of Warcraft has gotten serious enough for Blizzard to issue out security warnings to those without an authenticator attached to their Battle.net accounts. They've also singled out those who've had "signs of unauthorized access" by way of unusual IP addresses. For now auction house access is disabled via the mobile app.
Mark Kern now works at Red 5 Studios, developer of MMO Firefall, but he used to work at Blizzard and was on the World of Warcraft team. He now laments the 'accessibility mantra' they used to design it. Since WoW there's been a "creeping casualness" that touches all other MMOs, because it's what drew millions to Blizzard's creation. Players are hit with a "fire-hose of quests" - it's 'too quick'.