Gen Con Indy 2009 is just around the corner (it’s the weekend before BlizzCon), and if you’re headed out for the “best four days in gaming,” keep an eye out there for some of this Warcraft stuff. Blizzard won’t actually be there, as far as we know (it’s more of a convention for board games [...]
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In what appears to be an attempt to put an end to scams capitalizing on the vanity mounts found in Upper Deck’s popular World of Warcraft trading card game, the latest Patch 3.2 PTR build seems to have removed the Bind-on-Pickup restriction on the loot mounts. Originally unearthed by Boubouille on MMO Champion, the removal [...]
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Tired of the usual raid environments? Mumsie and <Stormrise Warband> of Wyrmrest Accord have found a fix. They’ve decided to battle Malygos in the middle of a raspberry and blueberry swirl Sno-Cone. You can even see the delicious purple pool of syrup at the nadir of the cone, attracting Mumsie’s red drake with its sugary [...]
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One of the most important things in World of Warcraft PvP, obviously — as with all endeavors in a loot-driven game — is gear. Epic items with Stamina and Resilience, PvP set bonuses and all that. Well, that’s not what we’re going to talk about today. Today we’ll take a look at the metagame. What [...]
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Gallery: WoW Armory on the iPhone App
These are some of the first impressions I’ve had of the app. We’ll have more in-depth analysis at a later time.
You can buy the app via this link if it’s not showing up in the app store for you.
The exact name of the application is “World of Warcraft Mobile [...]
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It’s one of the first choices you make when you start to play: Alliance or Horde? Horde or Alliance? Orcs or Elves? From thence forward, your entire gaming experience is defined by this decision. So — which way did you choose? Do you fight for the glory of the Alliance? Or for the honor of [...]
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Hot on the heels of Steak Sandwiches, Oxhorn also released Gnome Overboard. This new installment in the series of Oxhorn’s Short Shorts actually reminds me of the older, pre-Inventing Swear Words work done by the Tauren Maestro.
The story is not complicated. Three men decide to go hunting whales. (A perfectly reasonable thing to do in [...]
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Living in Europe and playing WoW has one major perk over the US, thousands of players from a dozen countries get to play together. Of course we have realms specifically for people who speak Russian or French or English but it’s quite common to find people who don’t speak one of the major EU tongues [...]
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The other day, we reported on China’s recent ban on trading real currency for virtual goods, and it was hailed as the end of gold selling in the MMO world. Unfortunately, it may not actually play out that way. While this would put a stop to some gold selling, it won’t stop all of it [...]
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