The latest World of Warcraft developer blog tracing the development history of their raid design. Coming up to ten years since the original incarnation of the MMORPG was released, there's been quite a few changes.
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It seems like only yesterday since the Warcraft movie was officially announced, but director Duncan Jones has revealed on Twitter that shooting for the fantasy movie will finish in three weeks.
Blizzard has posted a new Artcraft blog entry on its official site, this time examining the newly remodeled female night elves that will be making an appearance in upcoming expansion World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor.
With upcoming World of Warcraft expansion Warlords of Draenor set to allow players to jump right in at level 90, Blizzard has helpfully decided to release a series of videos for new players unfamiliar with the game's many eccentricities. There's a guide for each class in the game, giving basic advice on how to manage your new fantasy avatar.
Director Duncan Jones has announced that shooting for the Warcraft movie has finally concluded, which it did before the weekend. Despite being "officially wrapped", years of work still remains to be done. There are a lot of special effects to bring Azeroth to life, which is being led by Lucasfilms' Industrial Light & Magic - the studio built out of the foundations of Star Wars.
Player housing and personalisation seems all the rage at the moment. Along with WildStar offering in-depth custom homesteads and The Old Republic joining the property rush, World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor will add its own take on the concept in the form of Garrisons. Garrisons will be "your own personal fortress", a base of operations that your online avatar can build, upgrade and recruit for. Blizzard revealed them back at Blizzcon 2013, but the new update gives us a closer look.
Blizzard is busy sending out invitations to those World of Warcraft players who registered for participation in the alpha test of the upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion. Registrations for the public alpha test opened in April, around the same time that Blizzard announced they were running private testing. Now chosen players can experience the level 90 area of Frostfire Ridge for themselves.
Prepare to feel slightly better about all the time you waste playing games. It's not as much as this guy. A World of Warcraft player has leveled a character form the Pandaren race, who start neutral but must pick either Horde or Alliance to join after they complete their starting island, all the way up to level 90. After 4164 hours and countless herbs picked, Doubleagent finally reached the highest level in the game while remaining entirely neutral.
Blizzard Entertainment has released a blog post revealing a new area that will appear in its upcoming World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor expansion. The Tanaan jungle will be the location of your first few steps on Draenor, a dangerous wilderness where "even the plants have teeth."
Blizzard has announced in a blog post that the public beta test for its upcoming expansion World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor is now live. "Over the course of the test," write Blizzard, "we’ll be inviting community veterans, press, fansites, friends and family, and opt-in beta testers to participate."
There's a mysterious donor who's giving away thousands of dollars to World of Warcraft and Hearthstone Twitch streamers. Watch as hundred of hopefuls flock to the video-streaming website in hope of getting a cash windfall. Mysterious user Amhai, who's still remaining anonymous, has given away more than $100,000 in donations to his favorite streamers, according to the Daily Dot.
The chunky blue Draenaei are the latest World of Warcraft race to go under the spotlight in one of Blizzard's blog posts showing off the graphical updates coming up in next expansion Warlords of Draenor. Not quite as impressive as some of the other upgraded models perhaps, but still nice and shiny. It's pretty strange, as someone who hasn't played WoW since the year it came out, to see the improvement in these new models. Wonder if the Deadmines look any different these days?
The latest Blizzard 'Artcraft' blog post, in which the design team explain the ideas behind the various updated character models on the way in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, takes a look at everyone's favourite mutant cow-people - the Tauren. In short the team are aiming to add a lot more detail while also sorting out those massive bloody arms and "completely out of control" hands. Not my words, the words of the actual developers.
Blizzard are making a big deal of the World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor release date announcement - alongside the date they'll reveal a new one of those expensive, shiny CGI trailers, an interview with the development team and the first episode of an animated Warcraft mini-series called Lords of War.
Blizzard's fantasy hack and slash Diablo 3 has sold an impressive 20 million plus copies in the two years since its launch. That figure was revealed during Activision-Blizzard's second quarter earnings call yesterday, during which the company also World of Warcraft subscriptions have dropped to the still pretty healthy level of 6.8 million.
It's coming up to the tenth anniversary of Blizzard's genre-defining MMORPG, and the developer has rightly decided that there's only one worthy way to celebrate - molten corgies for everyone. Okay, that's not quite all. In a nice touch they're adding a Team Deathmatch-style battle at Tarren Mill and Southshore, which long-time players will remember as one of the most highly contested zones from the early days of WoW. How long ago that seems now.
Blizzard has finally announced the release date for Warlords of Draenor, the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion. Your next portion of massively multiplayer fantasy will be available this November 13. The developer announced the news at a special fan event, where they also showed off the expansion's introductory cinematic and the first episode in an animated mini-series examining its detailed backstory.
Blizzard hinted last week that they were listening to fans requesting the late Robin Williams be immortalised as an NPC in World of Warcraft. Now three characters models have been uncovered in upcoming expansion Warlords of Draenor's code, suggesting a tribute is on the way. Williams was a noted fan of Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft, and was rumoured to have a character on the Mannoroth server.
Blizzard has spilled more details about their up and coming 10th Anniversary for World of Warcraft, with the festivities set to kick off November 21st and run until January 6th, 2015. Anyone logging in during this time will get themselves an "incredibly cuddly, feisty, and fiery" new Molten Corgi pet. There are also special events planned, with Molten Core set to be re-raided.
Some character names in World of Warcraft are a little dusty, so Blizzard is getting ready to release them back into the naming pool soon in a pre-expansion patch for Warlords of Draenor. Any name that's gone silent since before November 13th, 2008 will be up for grabs again. To avoid this subscribers will have to log into each character before patch 6.0.2 hits.