Battle.net Ultimatum Date Draws Near, Merge Accounts Or Perish
Blizzard is advising all players in their vast and sprawling World of Warcraft empire to join together in merging Battle.Net and Warcraft accounts. The move to merge all players onto a single account system has been coming for some time, with Blizzard offering gentle nudges and suggestions. The gentleness has ended.
Now the axe comes out.
All players, users, hackers, spammers, pubbies, puggers, scammers, keyloggers, and ERPers must merge their accounts before November 11th. Dire wrath faces those who resist the purity of Blizzard’s single-account system.
Read more at World of Warcraft’s community site.
World of Warcraft and PUGs the fix is coming?
Well, as much of a fix as can possibly be done to the bane-of-all-MMOs. Speaking of which us voces absolutely love PUGs—ignore Nelson’s complaints and objections, he won’t play with anyone not vetted by the FBI. They are an experience in both frustration and hilarity for any given game play event. PUGs are the groundwork that we use to gather our friends, sally forth into a strange world, and get our shy socialization shirts on.
Needless to say, Blizzard is introducing a new thing that should make PUGs the next-big-thing.
Blizzard drops details on the new dungeon and raid system for World of Warcraft, which brings with it cross-sever instancing, daily random dungeons, and special rewards for taking part in a pick-up group.
Pick-up groups, or PUGs, are the bane of many an MMO player’s existence. Rather than grouping with your guild
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Drums of War Rally Screenwriter to World of Warcraft Movie
The grinding wheel of billion-dollar franchise inevitability continues to turn. The proposed World of Warcraft movie, under the direction of Sam Raimi (about the only guy who could do the project justice), has set its sights on a new screenwriter.
Robert Rodat will, for the time being, lurk behind the lore of the potential movie. Rodat’s other screenwriting credits include Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot, so we here at Vox are expecting a sappy war movie whose attempts to pluck heartstrings are so artificial and clumsy that playing guitar with a pair of those snappy-grabby shark-on-a-stick things will seem elegant in comparison.
World of Warcraft: Icecrown Citadel Preview
Part of the Citadel, anyhow. The back entrance up through the Lich King’s rose garden, it’s known as the Frozen Halls.
Read about it at WorldofWarcraft.com.
World of Warcraft: Pirate’s Day
As we all know, September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. A fine tradition and a noble internet holiday. To celebrate, World of Warcraft is hosting their own event, Pirate’s Day.
In short, Booty Bay gets taken over by pirates, and they have stuff. Lots of stuff. For you. Including an achievement. But it’s one day only!
Check out Blizzard’s WoW holiday page for the details.
Icecream Headache: The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar
Making the rounds of the video game blogosphere, a music video by the hopefully now-famous online drama show “The Guild.” Featuring World of Warcraft game humor and a guild of equally maladjusted, but adorable, characters, we’ve always had a great deal of fun watching these and look forward to it continuing for some time.
Crash To Desktop – 8/17/2009
Welcome to Crash To Desktop, where I get a chance to talk about whatever my invisible masters tell me to say. My name is Nelson Williams, thank you for stopping by. While you’re here, why not sign up with our Twitter feed? I’ll know if you don’t.
Tonight, I’d like to take a moment of your time to discuss an issue that affects all of us as gamers. A scourge, in truth, a contagious plague that leaps out to strike down the hale and the innocent without regard. As our gaming becomes more social, more interconnected, the disease will only grow greater in scope. Yes, friends, I speak of one thing; console tards.
You’ve met them. Although their kind breeds in the dank pits …
Crash To Desktop – 8/16/2009
Welcome to Crash To Desktop, where I abuse my editorial privileges for your amusement. I’m Nelson Williams, and thank you for tuning in. Did I mention you can follow us on Twitter? You can, and you will, or we’ll shoot this puppy.
As you know, World of Warcraft is currently at the top of the MMORPG scene, and may be one of the most popular and profitable games of all time. It holds a position of dominance so strong, so secure, that the shockwaves will rock the entire gaming community when something finally kills it.
World of Warcraft will die, make no mistake. As gamers, we swim, oblivious, through waters strewn with corpses and bloated husks gutted out by time and abandonment. Even those …
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Rumors and Speculation
Recently, a few rumours broke out about the next planned expansion to Blizzard’s crushingly popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft. These whispers in the dark centered around Cataclysm, the next expansion to WoW after Lich King.
It’s said that the great dragon Deathwing will join forces with the immortal and exiled elf-queen Azshara to summon a great power that will shatter the world.
It’s said that Warchief Thrall will pass the Doomhammer to the son of Grom Hellscream, and open war will come upon the Horde and the Alliance.
It’s said that Humans and Undead will finally get Hunters, I mean, damn, what took so long?
Oh, and something about new races and a complete rebuild of Azeroth.
Right now, MMO Champion has a decent rundown of the expected, or at least, more believable changes and details leaked out …
Crash to Desktop – 8/15/2009
Good evening, and welcome to Crash To Desktop, our daily digest about my disjointed ramblings and the day’s news. I’d like to take this moment to mention our Twitter feed, and how subscribing will make you a better person who is loved and adored by all.
Those of you who’ve been following the site might have noticed a heavy slant toward Wii games in our reviews and discussions, and the reason is there’s a Wii sitting next to my ancient black monolith of a TV set. Given that I’m a Wii player, I tend to notice conversation about the system, and the common topic seems to revolve around whether the little white box that could is a better toy for either toddlers or babies fresh from the womb.
For some reason, people think that Wii = kiddy….
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