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| Friday, March 31 2006 |
New realms and hardware
WoW.com are bragging about their new realms and hardware. The following are new as of today...
Ysera - PVE
Dentarg - PVP
Andorhal - PVP
Executus - PVP |
| Saturday, April 1 2006 |
April 1st activities
I had quite a lot of fun on my forums and blog today and it seems Blizzard were doing the same thing.
We'll kick off with BurgerCraft, the new WoW themed restaurants. Press release about that here.
Secondly, Blizz have announced a new alliance race of the Burning Crusade. The Wisps! Full information on them can be found here. |
1.11 patch notes
Caydiem has leaked the patch notes for 1.11 onto the official forums! And I'm sure today's date is just a massive coincidence.
Read them here.
My personal favourite change has to be "Night Elves will now lose a small percentage of experience after jumping." |
| Sunday, April 2 2006 |
Jeff Kaplan interview
GameSpot have an interview concerning the Burning Crusade with lead designer Jeff Kaplan. Check it out here. |
| Monday, April 3 2006 |
WoW Europe missing a homepage
WoW-Europe.com, at least the English version is currently missing it's homepage :p. Opening the site brings up their generic 404 error page. Classic :D. |
| Tuesday, April 4 2006 |
More site issues
WoW-Europe has it's homepage back, just when WoW.com has gone down to low bandwidth mode :p.
Both sites are also now carrying a post clarifying that the Wisps and BurgerCraft and such were April Fool's jokes. Not that we didn't know it before :p but there you go. |
| Wednesday, April 5 2006 |
Talents interview thing
There is a new interview with one of the game developers about talents and such, check it out here. |
| Thursday, April 6 2006 |
Burning Crusade screenshots
WoW-Europe have some new screenshots from the Burning Crusade (though they appear to be the ones that have already appeared on GameSpot), check them out here. |
| Friday, April 7 2006 |
Win a year of WoW
MMO Portal are holding a competition to win a year of WoW for free. You need to register, make a post and stuff, but a year of free WoW, you can't go wrong. Check it out here. |
| Saturday, April 8 2006 |
New wallpaper
Both WoW.com and WoW Europe have new wallpaper, check them out here and here. |
New transfers
North American players will be running from Monday to Thursday onto new PvP servers Black Dragonflight and Dalvengyr...
Hyjal –> Black Dragonflight
Lightbringer –> Black Dragonflight
Shadowsong –> Black Dragonflight
Zul'jin –> Black Dragonflight
Alleria –> Dalvengyr
Khaz'goroth –> Dalvengyr
Hellscream –> Dalvengyr
Whisperwind –> Dalvengyr |
| Sunday, April 9 2006 |
WoW Weekly
The latest WoW Weekly is now available on the official North American forums here. |
Limited edition bronze figures
Fantasy Flight Games have teamed up with Blizz to bring out some limited edition WoW bronze figures.
Check them out here. |
| Monday, April 10 2006 |
Transfers live, sort of
The transfers I mentioned on Saturday open today (and indeed are open now) until Thursday but one of the original transfers is not being made available.
Khaz'goroth –> Dalvengyr won't be available during this round of transfers. |
| Tuesday, April 11 2006 |
Under development
WoW Europe have updated their under development page naming a mage talents review and a new high level dungeon named Naxxramas as the next major features. |
Beasts of the Burning Crusade
WoW Europe have added a new page to the Burning Crusade information, this one discussing the various beasts.
Check it out here. |
| Wednesday, April 12 2006 |
Patch 1.10.1
A minor patch, 1.10.1 has been released to fix a few problems (see the patch notes) in North America yesterday but will not be in Europe until next week. |
| Thursday, April 13 2006 |
More accounts closed
Blizzard have closed over 5,400 accounts and suspended over 10,700 for TOS violations and such. Chew on that gold farmers :p. |
| Friday, April 14 2006 |
Dire Maul wallpaper
WoW.com have a new wallpaper of Dire Maul, check it out here. |
| Saturday, April 15 2006 |
New wallpaper
WoW Europe have a new wallpaper featuring a dragonkin, check it out here. |
| Sunday, April 16 2006 |
Noblegarden contest
The Noblegarden contest begins in Europe today. You need to paint an egg, photograph it and send it in.
Full details here. |
| Monday, April 17 2006 |
Blizz re-evaluating it's Chinese partner?
Blizzard may have gaving second thoughts about it's current Chinese distributor, The9.
In a press release Blizzard said it "is currently actively exploring and discussing cooperation opportunities and further expansion of its business with local potential partners for mainland China." |
| Tuesday, April 18 2006 |
Buring Crusade Bestiary update
WoW.com have uploaded the bestiary page for the Burning Crusade with two new beasts, check it out here. |
| Wednesday, April 19 2006 |
CD cover contest
Blizzard have launched a new competition where you have to design a cover for an Azeroth themed album.
The deadline for submissions is April 26th. The top prize is an MP3 player. Full details here. |
| Thursday, April 20 2006 |
The Problem with Gold Farming
Soulrift over on GameSHOUT.com has written a new article about the problem gold farming courses. It's quite a good read, you can find it here. |
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