World of Warcraft

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week 3.3 Is Going To Be Bigger Than We Thought Last week, we spent most of Rumors And Scuttlebutt talking about what players are telling us they’re dreaming about getting in World of Warcraft… someday, and since then we’ve gotten all sorts of interesting tidbits from the Publ...

By Randydeluxe They have arrived! Fresh from their debut at BlizzCon 2009, the fun and adorable murloc plush dolls, two of the hottest items for sale at the show, are now available to the general public via the Blizzard Online Store. The blue Murky plush doll and the white Lurky plush doll are only $15.00 eac...

By Randydeluxe Blizzard Drops The Curtain In Austin In a thread on the World Of Warcraft forums this week, a poster named Shadowavatar from Boulderfist repeated what we read from an e-mail on this show two weeks ago: And he got a response from Blizzard.   Bornakk replied with the following:

By Kevin Kelly If you're wondering what the internal goings-on at Blizzard consist of, grab yourself something to eat and kick back. We've got the entire hour-long keynote speech at the Austin Game Developer's Conference down below. Blizzard's J. Allen Brack and Frank Pearce were on-hand to walk a sligh...

By Dan Fernandez A gratuitious trailer for TweetCraft, a World of Warcraft Twitter client. Twitter is open source and includes: A Windows client written in C# and Windows Presentation Foundation A Warcraft AddOn written in FrameXML and Lua using AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

By Mike Schramm Here's our podcast from last week -- Lesley Smith joined Turpster, Patrick Beja of How I WoW and I to chat about the Martin Fury controversy, how Children's Week and Noblegarden are going on the live realms, and what we've been up to lately in the World of Warcraft. And as usual we answered you...

By Mike Schramm We had a great time on the podcast last Saturday, and it was a full house: Turpster, our friend Patrick Beja, Michael "Belfaire" Sacco were all on board, and we welcomed a special guest, Alex Albrecht of Project Lore. And despite the fact that we had so many people on, not only did we answer you...

By Randydeluxe 1. This brand-new game is not a World of Warcraft expansion, and it is not related to the Next-Gen MMO. 2. In the present, the brand-new game is using the World of Warcraft engine merely for testing purposes. 4. Whether this game is based on the three major franchises (Warcraft, Starcraft or Diab...

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week We’re Going On A Spectral Safari Don’t miss Upper Deck’s “Spectral Safari,” a global, one-day World of Warcraft Miniatures Game tournament at select hobby stores on March 14 and 15, 2009. The victor of each individual tournament will bag one of the biggest World of Warc...

By Dan  Windows Mobile 6.5 launches including MyPhone Tool to convert a Windows image to a VHD file Upload pictures to Facebook using Windows Live Gallery, via Sarah Perez Dan's pick of the week: AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft Version 2 Beta 2 now available for Warcraft AddOn developers

By Randydeluxe Already in the big leagues, Blizzard announced that former World Of Warcraft Game Director Jeff Kaplan has been promoted to lead the team that is developing the secret “next-gen MMO” that Blizzard has been talking about not talking about for the last year and a half. The announcement came...

By Randydeluxe Blizzard announced on Thursday that the 2nd expansion to World Of Warcraft sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. This eclipses the previous record of nearly 2.4 million copies sold in 24 hours, set by The Bur...

By Randydeluxe As you may or may not have heard, a little change came to World Of Warcraft yesterday, with the launch of a mostly insignificant patch that even has it’s own title - Wrath Of The Lich King. We’ve rarely seen something so small create so much hysteria. Even Cowgirls Get Realm Queues

By Philip Kollar This week's episode of Legendary Thread, 1UP's World of Warcraft and MMO podcast, is special for numerous reasons. First off, we recorded it on the eve of the release of the latest WOW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King -- that is, before the game was officially released but after we had picke...

By Dan At Blizzcon, we got a chance to interview Matthew Orlando aka "Cogwheel". Matthew is one of the best known AddOn and Macro developers (and a Wow MVP) in World of Warcraft and he's also the co-author of World of Warcraft Programming.

By Randydeluxe In anticipation of the upcoming World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion, Wildstorm and Blizzard Entertainment have created a four-issue miniseries chronicling the Ashbringer’s tale, written by Blizzard’s Micky Neilson and featuring art by Ludo Lullabi and Tony Washing...

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week Blizzard Brings The Tunes Just when you thought you’d never hear a WoW Soundtrack story called the big news of anything, Blizzard unexpectedly got the soundtracks from StarCraft, Diablo II, Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, and The Burning Crusade all published for s...

By Randydeluxe Blizzard Goes To Comic-Con There was a Blizzard dev present at the joint panel yesterday, and the audience wanted to know about the future of World Of Warcraft. Nothing surprising was forthcoming, but a couple of the exchanges caught our attention. World Of Warcraft: En Español

By myextralife Big News Of The Week Wrath Of The Lich King Beta Is Underway Blizzard announced today that Beta Invitations are going out via e-mail to randomly chosen entrants for the Beta to the 2nd expansion of World of Warcraft. Here’s the page where you can still sign up for the beta, and here’s a separat...

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week That Level 30? She’s Got A Ticket To Ride The incremental patch 2.4.3 hit the WoW public test realms this week with quite a bit of bluster for what appears to be a small patch. Different parts of the WoW community are interested in different aspects of the patch, but [...]

By Michael Zenke Filed under: World of Warcraft, Podcasts, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Star Wars Galaxies, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 12 runs down news and features from Massively.com for the week of June 25th - July 1st. This week Colin Brennan and Adrian Bott up the respectabi...

By Randydeluxe When Are We Going To Get A New Cinematic From Blizzard? Town Cryer Fartsostank from the guild on the Blackhand server writes: Drop Of The Week Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.

By Randydeluxe A critical vulnerability was discovered this week in the popular web-content delivery program Adobe Flash, and it could potentially be used to target World of Warcraft players and accounts. The newest available version of Adobe Flash, version 9.0.124.0, does not contain this vulnerabil...

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week Blizz Wants To Be Where Everybody Plays Their Games On Monday, Blizzard Entertainment announced plans for its third BlizzCon gaming convention, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 10 and 11. BlizzCon is a celebration of the gl...

By Randydeluxe The Grand Prize winner will also receive guaranteed entry into the Wrath of the Lich King beta test. Two Runner Up winners will also be selected to receive guaranteed entry into the beta test of the upcoming World of Warcraft® expansion Wrath of the Lich King. For European listeners.

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week You Can’t Stop The Signal A flood of leaked information about the Wrath Of The Lich King expansion, taken directly from the alpha testing client for the forthcoming 2nd expansion to World of Warcraft, exploded across the Internet this week. Everything from notes about...

By Michael Zenke Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 4 runs down news and features from Massively.com for the week of April 28th- May 4th. Two of our talented columnists fill the third and fourth chairs this week: James Murff and Player vs. Everything's Cameron S...

By Randydeluxe The 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament Is Underway Blizzard Celebrates Their Biggest Holiday Of The Year New World of Warcraft Hero Class: Bard New StarCraft II Unit: Tauren Marine World of Warcraft on a Console Diablo Loot Piñata Stormclaw from the Alexstraza Realm writes:

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week Wrath Of The Lich King May Be Alpha Testing That’s right, a well-sourced rumor started making the rounds today that the 2nd Expansion to World Of Warcraft may be alpha testing as we speak. First, the clearly useful “beta.worldofwarcraft.com” came online on April 2, and th...

By Randydeluxe Tickets for the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational convention and tournament gaming event are now available on the Worldwide Invitational website. This year’s Blizzard Worldwide Invitational will take place in Paris, France, at the Porte de Versailles Exposition...

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week 2.4 All Over The Test Realms Blizzard activated patch 2.4 on the Public Test Realms this weekend, causing a flurry of reports from every direction on changes to World Of Warcraft that are incoming with the Sunwell Plateau patch, due out in a couple of months or so. We’ve got s...

By Akela Talamasca Filed under: World of Warcraft, Podcasts, Business models, Culture, Game mechanics, MMO industry, PvP, OpinionListening to the Penny Arcade podcast, Downloadable Content, as I am wont to do when playing something, the topic of discussion turned to how World of Warcraft has ruined Mi...

By Michael Zenke Filed under: World of Warcraft, Podcasts, Culture, Economy, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Guides, Endgame, Warhammer Online, The Agency, Opinion, Tabula Rasa, Hands-on, Education, Humor, Rumors

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week It’s A New Year! 2008 is upon us, and there are many expectations for World Of Warcraft this year. But before we take too many steps forward, we have a look back at 2007. Rumors and Scuttlebutt Randydeluxe, Whole Guild Gets Robbed Gold sellers suck. Don’t fund the gold seller...

By Randydeluxe We interview Ed Fries, operator of FigurePrints.com - the hot new provider of 3D figurines made directly from your actual character in World Of Warcraft. Town Cryer Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.

By Randydeluxe Blizzard, who for those of you who are just tuning in for the first time, makes a little game called World Of Warcraft, is no longer a division of Vivendi Games. Yesterday, Vivendi and Activision announced their pending merger, which will result in the name “Activision Blizzard”.

By Randydeluxe Patch 2.3 to World of Warcraft went live one week ago, and thus far, players are reporting a deep satisfaction like never before. William Shatner, Mr. T, and Verne Troyer are asking, in a series of national television commercials: ‘What’s Your Game?’ The answer, fool, is World of Warcraft!

By Randydeluxe Big News Of The Week WoW 2.2 Is Live, And Glitchy! Blizzard finally took the long-awaited patch 2.2 live in World Of Warcraft on Tuesday, and the reviews have been a mixed bag, err, sack. Long awaited features such as Battleground AFK reporting and video capture for Mac users are being lost in t...

By brent@virginworlds.com Brent is taking a breather this week, but you still need your MMORPG news right?  Here it is!  This week Marc was kind enough to stand-in on the VirginWorlds Podcast and (Brent thinks) you might want to hear him from now on.  Marc covers topics such as Saga, Dungeon Runners, EVE Online and Mia...

By brent@virginworlds.com Software: VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com

By brent@virginworlds.com VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com

By brent@virginworlds.com Guild Wars 2 VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com

By brent@virginworlds.com VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com

By brent@virginworlds.com VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com

By brent@virginworlds.com Enjoy. VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com

By brent@virginworlds.com VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com

By brent@virginworlds.com VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com

By brent@virginworlds.com Dungeon Runners Firefly MMO Multiverse maker of a free MMO-creation platform to create MMORPG in the fashion of Star Wars Galaxies or Eve Online. Saga of Ryzom Vanguard World of Warcraft MMORPG Reader's Choice for 2006 VirginWorlds is the 104th most popular MMO blog (yay!)

By brent@virginworlds.com Weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com Show notes:

By brent@virginworlds.com Weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com