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During our visit to Blizzard's HQ in Irvine, CA, we had a chance to sit down with both Jeffrey "Tigole" Kaplan and Tom "Kalgan" Chilton. This wasn't a one-on-one interview, though, so credit needs to be given where it's due. Also in on the interview was Ten Ton Hammer and MMOGAMER. We all took turns grilling both Tigole and Kalgan, to see if we...
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Guillotine recently had a chance to chat with Antiarc -- creator of Omen Threat Meter -- about what 2.4 means for the combat log, Omen, and of course its future. This continues our WoW patch 2.4 coverage, so read on for the interview with the author of one of World of Warcraft's most popular AddOns!
Guillotine: I would like to welcome Antiarc,...
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Gosey of SK-Gaming published an interesting interview about 2 days ago, in that interview David "Shawn" K, head admin for World of Warcraft at the ESL answered to several questions, in one of them he is telling us Blizzard will be supporting ESL to set up an online tournament.
Does ESL have any plans to host more wow tournaments?Since the...
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Four years ago, World of Warcraft was released to the masses and Blizzard expected a player base of around 1,000,000 at peak. Roll the clock forward and we have the single most successful MMORPG, boasting 10,000,000 active subscriptions and the game is still getting bigger.
In 2007, Blizzard Entertainment released the first expansion for World of...
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There's an interesting article over at Kotaku Australia that talks about a player's experiences with powerlevelling. Here's a snippet:
"For me, I couldn't face levelling from 1-60 again. The thought gave me stomach cramps. Brain cramps. Cramps in my hair. The simple logic of the statement "If something's not fun, don't do it" should have...
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Executive vice-president of product development Frank Pearce talks WoW 2, StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3
Blizzard is sitting pretty at the moment. Having just announced that the world's most popular MMO, World of Warcraft, has got even more popular, with an astonishing 9.3m subscriptions across the world, the US developer can afford to employ its famous...
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videogamer.com recently sat down with Frank Pearce, Blizzard's executive vice-president of product development for an interview where he dashed the hopes of World of Warcraft 2.
Pearce clearly stated that Blizzard is currently more interested in expanding World of Warcraft -- going as far as confirming that the company hasn't even begun to think...
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The Wrath of the Lich King website has been updated with a new Design Team Q&A regarding the Death Knight. That's not all though; that lovable subject you've grown to love over the past few weeks on the official forums - Death Knight Lore - has been touched on with the new lore section.
Some snippets from the Q&A:
One of the biggest news at this...
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As we wrap up our patch 2.2 AddOn Author Interview series, we have an interview with cladhaire - the developer of Clique, PerfectRaid and many other great AddOns and libraries that are used by a number of other authors. He also contributed heavily to the Ace and Ace2 frameworks, as well as creating his own - Dongle - and is now assisting in the...
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As part of our special patch 2.2.0 event, we're reaching out to a number of the AddOn authors who have developed the AddOns we've all grown to love in World of Warcraft. Whether it's a Unit Frame, a bag mod, or a threat meter, you've probably used at least one of the AddOns these folks have developed. This particular interview is with Daviesh -...
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As part of our special patch 2.2.0 event, we're reaching out to a number of the AddOn authors who have developed the AddOns we've all grown to love in World of Warcraft. Whether it's a Unit Frame, a bag mod, or a threat meter, you've probably used at least one of the AddOns these folks have developed. This particular interview is with pastamancer,...
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As part of our special patch 2.2.0 event, we're reaching out to a number of the AddOn authors who have developed the AddOns we've all grown to love in World of Warcraft. Whether it's a Unit Frame, a bag mod, or a threat meter, you've probably used at least one of the AddOns these folks have developed. This particular interview is with Antiarc -...
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As part of our special patch 2.2.0 event, we're reaching out to a number of the AddOn authors who have developed the AddOns we've all grown to love in World of Warcraft. Whether it's a Unit Frame, a bag mod, or a threat meter, you've probably used at least one of the AddOns these folks have developed. This particular interview is with Tuller -...
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As part of our special patch 2.2.0 event, we're reaching out to a number of the AddOn authors who have developed the AddOns we've all grown to love in World of Warcraft. Whether it's a Unit Frame, a bag mod, or a threat meter, you've probably used at least one of the AddOns these folks have developed. This particular interview is with KarlKFI -...
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As part of our special patch 2.2.0 event, we're reaching out to a number of the AddOn authors who have developed the AddOns we've all grown to love in World of Warcraft. Whether it's a Unit Frame, a bag mod, or a threat meter, you've probably used at least one of the AddOns these folks have developed. This particular interview is with ckknight -...
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As part of our special patch 2.2.0 event, we're reaching out to a number of the AddOn authors who have developed the AddOns we've all grown to love in World of Warcraft. Whether it's a Unit Frame, a bag mod, or a threat meter, you've probably used at least one of the AddOns these folks have developed. This particular interview is with kenco - the...
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allvatar has a great interview with Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan up from the Leipzig Games Convention. Tigole provided additional information on a few things coming in patches and the expansion. A quick recap:
Blizzard is looking at ways to attract players back to the old world. One way is through the new Caverns of Time: Stratholme instance, as well...
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We have an incredibly long and informative interview with Jeff Kaplan for everyone tonight. For those not aware, he goes by Tigole on the forums, and is one of the Lead Designers of World of Warcraft.
Tigole was kind enough to spend 25 minutes with us, so as you can imagine we had a great opportunity to ask a ton of questions. He talks about a...
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We had a chance to talk with Tigole a bit this afternoon at the Leipzig Games Convention and he provided quite a bit of new information. We have a video in the process of being uploaded now, but unfortunately Nimloth is uploading it from his hotel in Germany, so it's a bit slow. In the meantime, we have some details from the interview to satiate...
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We had a chance to talk with Jeff "Tigole" Kaplan during our BlizzCon excursion. Jeff was kind enough to answer a number of different questions, including his experience going from a player to a designer, what exactly Blizzard would like to receive in terms of feedback, Naxxramas returning in Wrath of the Lich King, what Blizzard learned from...
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Shadowclan currently plays World of Warcraft on Bleeding Hollow, and is looking forward to Age of Conan and Warhammer. They've been around since the days of Ultima Online...In this interview, GuildCafe explores the history of a guild that's been combining roleplaying and PVP for over a decade.
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Stratics has reviewed the upcoming book, “Legend: The Syndicate®.” It is about The Syndicate® guild from the Zul'jin server.
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Last week was the top guild, Nihilum. This week Stratics brings you a raiding guild that is mostly female. Watch out for their pro team coming to the WSVG in October.
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One of the last things we had a chance to do while down in San Diego was to sit down with Flow Gaming - The HUKs - and talk with them about their experiences with Blizzard's WoW Arena Tournament and the upcoming WSVG Tournament. Humble and knowledgeble are two key words that come to mind when I think about describing this team.
They clearly knew...
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The US Regional Finals event in San Diego 2 weeks ago was the second World of Warcraft "LAN" tournament to take place worldwide. Hosted by Blizzard, the event ran very smoothly throughout the entire weekend. After the closing ceremony was over I had the chance to sit down with Paul Della Bitta, Senior Community Manager over at Blizzard, and talk...
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