Activision Didn’t Value Blizzard In 1995
Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 - 5 Comments
In early December 2007 Blizzard Entertainment was part of a merger between Activision and Vivendi Games. The deal was essentially brokered to offload debt France’s Vivendi SA had acquired, and give Activision something it severely lacked, a successful MMORPG. It worked, creating a total (estimated) transaction of almost $19 billion. In perhaps the most expensive ... More
ICC Dungeons and Raids: Crowd Control Makes a Comeback
Posted by pixiestixy on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 - 14 Comments
I’ve only gotten into dungeons and raids since the release of WotLK, in the age of brute-force smashing your way through groups of elites, without much planning or group coordination beyond who tanks and who heals. Alright, maybe it’s not exactly that cut and dry, but crowd control definitely hasn’t been as huge of a ... More
World of Warcraft Official Magazine Still Coming, Preview Up
Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 - No Comments
One of the most unexpected things to come out of BlizzCon 2009 had to be the revelation of an official World of Warcraft magazine. With many flavors of print media dieing off, magazines, newspapers, etc, the introduction of an all-new property was unexpected, to say the least. I know quite a few people that outright ... More
Player Self Imposes A Hardcore WoW Server
Posted by iTZKooPA on Friday, December 25th, 2009 - 27 Comments
When I was in high school I remember my brother absolutely losing it. He snapped, falling into a fit of uncontrollable rage and despair. It’s possible he’s never been the same since. It had nothing to do with his heart being broken, or being cut from the basketball team (he wasn’t). No high school-style earth-shattering ... More
Alex Albrecht Cameos in The Guild Short
Posted by Heartbourne on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 - 14 Comments
If you’ve been watching The Guild, you know Bladezz is by far the best character. With season three just concluded, what better time to pick up an obviously real Bladezz blade? Alex agrees, its the perfect doll/knife. You can check out other obviously real things from The Guild with cool cameos, including the Clara Momma and ... More
Patch 3.3: Perky Pug Pet For PUG Leaders
Posted by iTZKooPA on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 - 12 Comments
BlizzCon 2009 was full of surprises, some little, some known and some huge. One of the little ones was the announcement that players in PUGs would be rewarded for helping out strangers. It was a great idea, in fact, it was such an obvious idea that there was a collective “Why didn’t I think of ... More
Arenas: Biggest Design Mistake of WoW
Posted by Heartbourne on Friday, November 13th, 2009 - 23 Comments
The Escapist of the Warcry Network had the fortune to interview the VP of Game Design, Rob Pardo, in a sort of retrospective look at the past five years of design of World of Warcraft. Its a great interview, and Blizzard has been doing a lot of these sort of things recently, perhaps to hype ... More
The High Inquisitor: Where Are All the Kids?
Posted by pixiestixy on Monday, October 26th, 2009 - 38 Comments
The High Inquisitor is a new regular column at Project Lore that seeks answers to the greatest mysteries of Azeroth. Each week, the inquisitor will attack a previously unanswered question and attempt to explain the unknown. But she won’t rest until all plausible explanations are explored. The best, most probable comment(s) will be highlighted with ... More
Important: Battle.Net Account Mergers Required Soon
Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, October 12th, 2009 - 31 Comments
Ever since Blizzard went about the process of remaking Battle.net the company has kindly asked players to merge their World of Warcraft accounts with Battle.net. As many of you may know, Battle.net is being completely revamped as the catch all account service for all of Blizzard’s online-enabled products (WoW, Warcraft RTS,Diablos, StarCraft). Version 2.0 of ... More
Project Lore Horde Deadmines 2.5
Posted by Project Lore Editor on Saturday, August 15th, 2009 - 104 Comments
Project Lore face their last two challenges in The Deadmines: Captain Greenskin and Edwin VanCleef himself… but they both have friends. Find out how the guys take these two bosses down in this episode of Project Lore. Remember to vote for Project Lore for the Audience Choice Streamy every day at http://vote.streamys.org/
