The patch 3.1.2 is now available for download. Many class changes are introduced in this patch, along with a reduction of Champion Seals required to purchase faction mounts and the Argent Hyppogryph.
DC Comics and Wildstorm released the solicitations for World of Warcraft # 22 due August 19. Lore fans are excited to hear the Council of Tirisfal will be reborn.
Several North American World of Warcraft servers are currently experiencing crashes and down time due to an unknown issue Blizzard is looking into.
Blizzard is now selling BlizzCon tickets, get them while they last!
Blizzard has just informed us that the first batch of Blizzcon tickets has now sold out. There will be a second oppertunity for those who did not manage to buy a ticket on May 30th.
Every week of April, Blizzard was kicking ass in PC sales here in the States so it's no surprise that they'd have an equally solid showing for the monthly figures. Here are the top 20 sellers for the month of April, courtesy of the NPD:
The World of Warcraft Battle Chest and expansion Wrath of the Lich King have been marked down for a limited time on GoGamer.
WorldofWar.net discussed with Sideshow Collectibles CEO Greg Anzalone and Production Manager Brant Bridges the possibility of more polystone dioramas based on Blizzard Entertainment games. They have ambitions.
WorldofWar.net has the scoop that a Blizzard representative confirmed the new MMO is based on a new IP, and the lore and art will be developed from scratch.
Blizzard has revealed the special gift that attendees to the upcoming BlizzCon event will receive.
This year's Develop 100 list has been published by Issuu and Blizzard Entertainment have ousted Nintendo be the most bankable studio in their 2009 list.
31 studios from across Europe feature in the list - 26 of them in the UK. These include the likes of Rockstar North (third on the list and responsible for the Grand Theft Auto franchise), LEGO Star Wars developer Traveller's Tales (11th) and Media Molecule (18th), the developer of LittleBigPlanet - and the highest placed independent UK studio on the list.
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.
Here's some news that'll probably make you feel good if you're okay with your class and just want to grab consistent set of talent specs and go at it, but may get you a little down if you still dislike where your class is. Ghostcrawler said yesterday that he believes there won't be many drastic class changes. In fact, he says, most of the 3.1 class changes were meant to compensate for or tinker with the changes made in 3.0 or to further tweak the classes that got the largest amount of overhaul.
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.
MMO-Champion: The new PTR patch updated most of the spell data for Ulduar bosses, we can finally see what's going on with boss changes in Ulduar. Most of these changes are from the hotfixes recently deployed on live servers.
WorldofWar.net interviewed Walter Simonson and Louise Simonson at the 2009 New York Comic Con. In this video interview, both reveal details of the current story arc about the half-orc Garona, and how the events in the upcoming two arcs will affect the World of Warcraft MMO storyline. Both the comic book and the MMO are walking along together toward a massive conflict between the Horde and the Alliance.
Wowinsider: Blizzard posted a list of hotfixes to Ulduar last night in their ongoing hotfix thread, almost all nerfs, and a notice that they were "making further difficult adjustments via hotfix" to Ignis, Razorscale, XT-002 Deconstructor, The Assembly of Iron, Kologarn, and Auriya, with changes to other encounters "highly likely" to occur once they're done with these. In this case I read "making adjustments via hotfix" as "giving them a good whack with the nerf stick."