What will they think of next? A researcher and World of Warcraft fan at the Massachusetts University of Technology (MIT) has designed and created a pod that allows players to literally play their favourite game for extended periods of time without so much as leaving their seat. Hit the jump for more details and images.
BlizCon 2009 Live Streaming Video or DirectTV Pay Per View & Online Ticket Sales are a Perfect Combination. The 4th annual BlizzCon will be happening on August 21, 2009 and August 22, 2009 at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. If you can make it in person than registere your Battle.net account early for the tickets going on sale on May 16, 2009 and another batch on May 30, 2009. The tickets are $125 each.
Kotaku writes: "IRL Swine Flu sounds like just a nighttime-sniffling-sneezing inconvenience when you read that it's been going around Azeroth since the Lich King beta, and pops you for 120 natural damage every two seconds."
WoW Insider had a chance to sit down today and talk with Karatechop, the man at the center of the cheating scandal that has been rocking World of Warcraft to its core.
In celebration of the release of Patch 3.1, Secrets of Ulduar, FigurePrints is having a little sale. When placing your order, if you enter the promotional code 'ULDUARSECRET' you'll get 10% off of the price of your Print.
Incgamers reviews the latest preview of the Warcraft comic:
According to rumours, a leaked letter from the president of The9, Xiaowei Chen, to The9 employees apparently states that an unnamed domestic operator, who is already running a joint venture with Blizzard, has requested through Blizzard that The9 transfer WoW servers and hardware over to them at a reduced price of $22 million USD, for which The9 paid $73 million USD. An extra $1 million USD will be paid for the transfer of staff who work on WoW.
To coincide with World of Warcraft's Patch 3.1, Blizzard has released a new cinematic trailer, showing players what to expect in the new Ulduar raid and updating them on the stroyline.
There are a lot of features in this latest patch from Blizzard Entertainment but here are the Top 10 Features of WoW Patch: Secrets of Ulduar WorldofWarcraft 3.1 and WoW Secrets of Ulduar 3.1 Patch HD Trailer.
The testing is finally over; Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft's patch 3.1 is going live today.
Wonderlandblog writes;
It's amazing how Nielsen can get these numbers but their study shows female players are making up for 35-40% of the World of Warcraft population within the 25 to 54 age group.
GamingShogun is giving away three copies of the upcoming 320-page World of Warcraft novel, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King. Just leave a comment at the site telling them the story you want to see made into the next WoW novel and be entered to win.
GamingShogun.com writes: "Simon & Schuster's upcoming World of Warcraft novel is up for pre-order now at their official site. Author Christie Golden has penned the 320 page Arthas: Rise of the Lich King with great attention to detail and respect of the world created by Blizzard Entertainment. The book is due out in stores on April 21st.
A spokesman for PETA has contacted IncGamers regarding the upcoming World of Warcraft "seal hunt" campaign, to clarify the goals and motivation behind the event.
Worldofwar.net is hosting a live chat with Christie Golden, author of the latest World of Warcraft novel, Arthas.
Blizzard has announced that the highly anticipated Equipment Manager feature, due to be introduced in World of Warcraft's huge upcoming content patch 3.1, has been delayed.
Aimforthehead writes: "After checking our e-mails earlier this morning, we found the following message in our spam tray:
It has emerged that along with developing their own MMO, The9 is hiring another 100 people to begin development on more games, and that it intends to release two or three of its own titles every year.
We saw the EU team's World of Warcraft efforts earlier with the P1mp My Mount feature, now their US counterparts have revealed their annual joke.