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BuckGB
April 12, 2010

How Blizzard Changed The MMO Genre

IncGamers has published a two-page editorial that proclaims Blizzard Entertainment as an innovator in the MMORPG genre, primarily because of the new “Dungeon Finder” system they introduced to World of Warcraft in the v3.3.0 patch. Obviously, World of Warcraft falls…

BuckGB
April 9, 2010

World of Warcraft Interview

AusGamers has slapped up an extensive interview that they did with Blizzard’s J. Allen Brack and Tom Chilton during this year’s Game Developers Conference. A lot of ground gets covered, but the primary topic is World of Warcraft: AusGamers: In…

BuckGB
April 9, 2010

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Class Previews

Blizzard Entertainment has put together detailed previews of the enhancements, nerfs, and other tweaks coming to seven of the World of Warcraft classes when Cataclysm hits later this year. The Mage, Paladin, and Druid previews are still forthcoming, but we’re…

BuckGB
April 1, 2010

Blizzard Entertainment: April Fools’ 2010

Blizzard Entertainment continues their usual April Fools’ tradition by announcing Diablo III Body Pillows, the Deckard Cain X-Treme Gamer Blanket, the Deckard Cain GPS Voice Pack, a Battle.net neural interface, equipment potency equivalance numbers for World of Warcraft, and Blackthorne…

BuckGB
March 25, 2010

BlizzCon 2010 Announced

Blizzard Entertainment sent out a press release today announcing plans to host a fifth BlizzCon event at the Anaheim Convention Center this October. Panel discussions, tournaments, hands-on gaming sessions, and most likely an announcement or two for those of you who plan…

BuckGB
March 13, 2010

Blizzard’s Core Game Design Concepts

Gamasutra has put together a summary of the panel discussion that Blizzard’s Rob Pardo gave this week during the Game Developers Conference. The topic was the company’s “core design concepts”, which one could argue are the best in the industry…

Brother None
March 9, 2010

World of Warcraft Unlikely to Come to Consoles

This is a topic that seems to come up every now and again, and this time it is up to G4, who asked World of Warcraft lead producer J. Allen Brack about the development of MMOs on the consoles, and…

Brother None
March 3, 2010

World of Warcraft Could Become Obsolete

After hearing several MMO makers issue challenges on WoW, it seems the starkest critics are at Activision-Blizzard itself, as per CVG’s report. ‘Future increased consumer acceptance and increases in the availability such games or other online games, or technological advances in…

BuckGB
March 3, 2010

Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft Art For Sale

Fantasy illustrator Carl Critchlow dropped us an email to let us know that he’s selling quite a few of the pieces he’s created over the years for Dungeons & Dragons, World of Warcraft, Magic: The Gathering, and The Wheel of…

BuckGB
March 2, 2010

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Attribute and Statistic Changes

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion pack is bringing some hefty modifications to the game’s character and item statistics, as explained by team member “Eyonix” over on the official forums. As many of you know from panels at last year’s…