We kick things off talking about what Titan might be all about.
Big News of the Week
Break out your tank tops! Midsummer Fire Festival is HERE! Same as every year, other than all the dungeon finder integration. Do we care about this one?
4.2 in game cinematic was released! Across the breadth of Azeroth, the Horde and the Alliance have dealt crushing blows to Deathwing’s elemental minions and fanatic Twilight’s Hammer cultists. Through it all, the Earthen Ring has never wavered from its tireless charge, holding Azeroth itself together amid the tidal fury and errant magical energies that churn at the Maelstrom. Yet as the elements continue their chaotic upheaval, it seems that the noble shamanic order might finally be on the verge of breaking beneath the great weight that rests on its shoulders.
Cataclysm Launching in Chinese Mainland on July 12. When World Of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion was released in Chinese mainland on August 31, 2010, the rest of the world’s players had played it for about 2 years and they would get Cataclysm 4 months later. But WOW(CN) then sped up and tried to shorten the distance between WOW(CN) and the global version. While Chinese WOWers just enjoy the 30% buff against Lich King, they are about to witness the shake of the earth and the catastrophe of Azeroth – Cataclysm is coming to China.
Rumors & Scuttlebut
Let the “WAR” games begin. Last December we introduced a new feature to World of Warcraft called War Games. This feature would provide players with the opportunity to face off in battles of epic proportions for fun and bragging rights. Arena teams and Battleground teams could meet up, pick their field of battle, and go toe-to-toe to hone their skills, see who was king (or queen) of the hill, and settle a score or two. While this was an exciting new feature, starting a War Game wasn’t as visible or easily accessible as we had wanted it to be. To address this issue, patch 4.2 implements a new interface option within the Player vs. Player (H) tab that makes it easier than ever to call out friend or foe for a face-off.
Some smack about what Ghostcrawler leaked regarding possible Titan details.
Blizzard interested in making games for iPhone, iPad. “Activision-Blizzard’s Greg Street, a lead designer behind the company’s highly successful World of Warcraft online game, told Eurogamer that his company was interested in making games built for the iPhone.
“Everyone I know here has an iPhone or an iPad so we’re huge fans of the hardware,” Street said to Eurogamer. “If we could make the right game changes to make that work, it’s something we’d be interested in. It’s not something you’re going to see in the next week or two, but it’s the kind of thing we’re always looking at.”
Drop of the Week
Amazing Stained Glass-Style World Of Warcraft Fan Art
World of Warcraft fan art depicting various stories and legends within the the World of Warcraft setting, in the form of stained glass art. Created by artist Jian Guo.
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Love the show. The problem with FPS is that there is so much cheating and the hacking just ruins the game. Even the suspicion of hacking ruins it.
This show was pretty good. Good job.
Good show, one issue tho. Tirion Fordring was in the game since Vanilla as a questgiver and was one of the first Knights of the Silver hand. He was also in the game in TBC and you could see him in the Old Hillsbrad CoT instance.
So really, in WotLK you didn’t have any new major lore characters popping up out of nowhere, as far as I know, Blizzard even tries to avoid that. Darion Mograine was new, but was introduced in a comic, altho it was known for ages that Alexandros Mograine had a second son, his first name was never mentioned.
I can’t find Aludra or Eludra on Twitter! anyone have a link ?
Do you think Titan might be an mmo for both PCs and cosoles? I’m not sure I’d like it myself, but it would explain the comments about it having a greater reach than anything they’ve done before.
The Tirion questline was by far one of the best questlines in vanilla WoW. Tirion probably had more lore behind him than Varian, and he became the human faction leader.
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Deep thinking – adds a new dimesionn to it all.