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World of Warcraft: Extended Maintenance and Patch 2.4.3

Teza (Teza) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:14:14 -0000

All US realms will be offline for 8 hours (from 3am to 11am PDT) and Blizzard will probably apply the patch 2.4.3 to the live realms.

Here are the latest official Patch 2.4.3 notes. We will update them with the live patch notes as soon as they are available.

Patch 2.4.3 Undocumented Changes
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World of Warcraft: WoW Comic #9 Sneak Peek

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:40:29 -0000

Blizzard just now posted a sneak peek of the newest World of Warcraft comic book series issue #9, which will arrive in stores July 16.
. Lo'Gosh, Valeera, Broll, and Thargas make their way to Ironforge via a circuitous route through the Wetlands. And back in Stormwind, Prince Anduin suspects all …

World of Warcraft: Karazhan 10-Boxed

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:11:39 -0000

A Chinese World of Warcraft player recently posted a video where he defeat Terestian Illhoof all by himself by playing ten characters at the same time. Also known as multi-boxing, which you can read about more further below.
He has also posted screenshots of him defeating Moroes, Maiden of Virtu…

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Q&A, Comic, Blue Posts

Teza (Teza) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:49:27 -0000

WotLK Q&A

Nethaera answered to a series of questions about WotLK.

Quote from: Nethaera (Source)

Do you plan to release a new content patch prior to WotLK?
We do not have any new content planned prior to Wrath of the Lich King. Our efforts are focused on creating new content as a part…

World of Warcraft: The Bountiful Chest

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:35:49 -0000

Olibith won the Worldwide Invitational 2008 Machinima with the Awards Best Movie & Best Editing.
The movie he made is called The Bountiful Chest.

The Bountiful Chest var FO_1 = { movie:"http://s…

World of Warcraft: New PTR Build: Hallow's End Event Up for testing

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:53:07 -0000

We recently posted about how yet another PTR build was deployed, making it two builds in two days. The Hallow's End event is now available for testing as a result. Below is a summary of PTR 2.4.3 so far.

PTR 2.4.3 Patch Notes Update
2.4.3 PTR Patch Notes
PTR 2.4.3 Undocumented Changes
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World of Warcraft: Activision Blizzard, WotLK Beta, Hallow's End

Teza (Teza) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:15:06 -0000

Activision Blizzard Announcement
Quote from: Nethaera (Source)

We’re excited to announce ( http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080710.html) that our planned team-up with Activision, first made public back in December 2007, is now a reality. All regulatory and shareholder approvals have been…

World of Warcraft: Lost In Dreams - AMV Machinima

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:55:48 -0000

Mario Kotlar released his first Animated Music Video Machinima called Lost in Dreams recently. He's drawn inspiration from Unlimited Escapism by Baron Soosdon.
40 gigabyte of fraps footage was used and the result can be seen below....

Lost in Dreams from Mario Kotlar on Vimeo.
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World of Warcraft: New EU Realm, WWI Replays, TCG, Blue Posts

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:58:26 -0000

Today Blizzard posted details about a new European realm called Blade's Edge. The population cap is fairly low to reduce the amount of people in the starting areas. It's a temporary measure.

The basics

Realm name: Blade's Edge
Language: English
Realm type: Normal (PvE)
Battlegroup: Rui…

Blizzard Entertainment: "I don't think we're scared to compete with WoW"

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:32:46 -0000

Multiplayer, a blog built by MTV News has spoken with Blizzard execs Paul Sams, Chief Operating Officer, and Frank Pearce, Executive Vice President of Product Development.
Two interesting topics they go over are why Diablo III isn't an MMO and also how they're not afraid of making another MMO to …