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  • Blizzard put out a new press release today. Seems re-launching in China has helped their numbers by quite a bit as they have no passed the 12 million mark shortly before Cataclysm is getting released. This train seems to keep on rolling and rolling with no end in sight yet. Blizzard Quote: PARIS, France – October 7, 2010 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively...

    World of Warcraft: Now Serving 12 Million

    Posted on October 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Blizzard put out a new press release today. Seems re-launching in China has helped their numbers by quite a bit as they have no passed the 12 million mark shortly before Cataclysm is getting released. This train seems to keep on rolling and rolling with no end in sight yet. Blizzard Quote: PARIS, France – October 7, 2010 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively...

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  • Blizzard has announced a new update to the Cataclysm raid dungeon lockout system which allows flexibility to guilds and PUGs. You can do a 25-man Marrowgar up to Saurfang attempt, and later a 10-man Blood Queen attempt and you will get the same loot in both type of raids. The way players are individually saved has changed too and you can check it out in your raid info tab. Bashiok posted a very extensive explanation...

    Cataclysm: Flexible Raid Lock System in 4.0.1

    Posted on October 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Blizzard has announced a new update to the Cataclysm raid dungeon lockout system which allows flexibility to guilds and PUGs. You can do a 25-man Marrowgar up to Saurfang attempt, and later a 10-man Blood Queen attempt and you will get the same loot in both type of raids. The way players are individually saved has changed too and you can check it out in your raid info tab. Bashiok posted a very extensive explanation...

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  • Really hope you took screenshots of your Beta guild members because with the recent patch guilds have been wiped in order to implement new changes in the guild system. Otherwise, feel free to create a new guild and hopefully some people will catch up, or simply start from scratch. There are plenty of beta testers to recruit, and more players keep getting beta invites as we speak. I have met a few in-game who just...

    Cataclysm Beta: Guild Wipe in Patch 13117

    Posted on October 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Really hope you took screenshots of your Beta guild members because with the recent patch guilds have been wiped in order to implement new changes in the guild system. Otherwise, feel free to create a new guild and hopefully some people will catch up, or simply start from scratch. There are plenty of beta testers to recruit, and more players keep getting beta invites as we speak. I have met a few in-game who just...

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  • World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Beta patch Build 13117 was deployed in beta servers. It’s a bit over 100MB in size, no big deal. Portals at the Valley of Wisdom (upper level) and northwest of Stormwind Keep are now available: Uldum, Vashj’ir, and Mount Hyjal. Up until now, only Twilight Highlands and Deepholm were available. Now all five are open for use. Players taking the Vashj’ir portal at the Valley of Wisdom are transported to the...

    Cataclysm Beta: Stormwind and Orgrimmar Portals Fully Operational

    Posted on October 1, 2010 | No Comments
    World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Beta patch Build 13117 was deployed in beta servers. It’s a bit over 100MB in size, no big deal. Portals at the Valley of Wisdom (upper level) and northwest of Stormwind Keep are now available: Uldum, Vashj’ir, and Mount Hyjal. Up until now, only Twilight Highlands and Deepholm were available. Now all five are open for use. Players taking the Vashj’ir portal at the Valley of Wisdom are transported to the...

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  • J!NX extended The Return of the Super Colossal Sale promotion until October 4 at 11:59pm. In this promotion, fans get the deal of $7 off all t-shirts (including World of Warcraft, Starcraft II and Diablo III). Offer is not valid with any other discount or promotion. World of Warcraft T-Shirts Starcraft II T-Shirts Diablo III T-Shirts

    J!NX T-shirts $7 Off Promo

    Posted on October 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
    J!NX extended The Return of the Super Colossal Sale promotion until October 4 at 11:59pm. In this promotion, fans get the deal of $7 off all t-shirts (including World of Warcraft, Starcraft II and Diablo III). Offer is not valid with any other discount or promotion. World of Warcraft T-Shirts Starcraft II T-Shirts Diablo III T-Shirts

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  • Blizzard Entertainment has dropped the Banhammer on 5,000 Starcraft II players who did not listen to the recent warning concerning cheats, third-party software, and exploits. Blizzard Quote: We recently took action, including suspensions and bans, on over 5,000 StarCraft II players who were in violation of the Battle.net Terms of Use for cheating and/or using hack programs while playing. In addition to undermining the spirit of fair competition that’s essential to play on Battle.net, cheating...

    Blizzad Drops the Banhammer on 5000 StarCraft II Players

    Posted on October 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Blizzard Entertainment has dropped the Banhammer on 5,000 Starcraft II players who did not listen to the recent warning concerning cheats, third-party software, and exploits. Blizzard Quote: We recently took action, including suspensions and bans, on over 5,000 StarCraft II players who were in violation of the Battle.net Terms of Use for cheating and/or using hack programs while playing. In addition to undermining the spirit of fair competition that’s essential to play on Battle.net, cheating...

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  • Blizzard updated the Faces of Cataclysm page by adding Cho’gall among other heroes and enemies. Cho’gall appears in the open world during a quest line given by Garona Halforcen in Twilight Highlands. You can find Garona at Bloodgulch. After you complete her quests, do the quests sending you to the Maw of Madness, and the red dragonflight quests in the Circle of Life and Grim Batol. This will lead you straight to the Twilight Citadel...

    Faces of Cataclysm: Cho’gall

    Posted on September 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Blizzard updated the Faces of Cataclysm page by adding Cho’gall among other heroes and enemies. Cho’gall appears in the open world during a quest line given by Garona Halforcen in Twilight Highlands. You can find Garona at Bloodgulch. After you complete her quests, do the quests sending you to the Maw of Madness, and the red dragonflight quests in the Circle of Life and Grim Batol. This will lead you straight to the Twilight Citadel...

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  • Amazon has sent an email to its customers, including myself and Eldorian, to inform the delivery date for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector’s Edition has been changed to an Estimated arrival date in January 2011. We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on August 20 2010: “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector’s Edition” Estimated arrival date: January 06 2011 – January 10 2011 Amazon updated just a few days ago a similar email...

    Amazon Changes World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Pre-orders Arrival Estimate

    Posted on September 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Amazon has sent an email to its customers, including myself and Eldorian, to inform the delivery date for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector’s Edition has been changed to an Estimated arrival date in January 2011. We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on August 20 2010: “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector’s Edition” Estimated arrival date: January 06 2011 – January 10 2011 Amazon updated just a few days ago a similar email...

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  • There are some hot weapon enchants in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm that have beta testers excited for its special effects. It’s unknown to me if they are working as intended or not. The Avalanche enchant is a very luminiscent enchant with frost symbols. However, the Elemental Slayer Enchant is definitely the biggest, coolest and most psychodelic enchant in Cataclysm. It has a huge radius and the radiance changes color hue constantly. The Elemental Slayer enchant...

    Cataclysm: Elemental Slayer Enchant … WoWs!!!

    Posted on September 29, 2010 | No Comments
    There are some hot weapon enchants in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm that have beta testers excited for its special effects. It’s unknown to me if they are working as intended or not. The Avalanche enchant is a very luminiscent enchant with frost symbols. However, the Elemental Slayer Enchant is definitely the biggest, coolest and most psychodelic enchant in Cataclysm. It has a huge radius and the radiance changes color hue constantly. The Elemental Slayer enchant...

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  • PCGamer talked with Starcraft II lead designer Chris Sigaty about Blizzard Entertainment’s plans for BlizzCon 2010. Blizzard won’t be showing Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm at BlizzCon this year. However, they will have a Starcraft II Q&A panel to discuss loose end questions fans may have about the Wings of Liberty single player lore. Thanks, Max Blizzard Quote: “We’re still working on the details [of the expansion],” explains Chris, “and the last thing I...

    No Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm at BlizzCon 2010

    Posted on September 29, 2010 | No Comments
    PCGamer talked with Starcraft II lead designer Chris Sigaty about Blizzard Entertainment’s plans for BlizzCon 2010. Blizzard won’t be showing Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm at BlizzCon this year. However, they will have a Starcraft II Q&A panel to discuss loose end questions fans may have about the Wings of Liberty single player lore. Thanks, Max Blizzard Quote: “We’re still working on the details [of the expansion],” explains Chris, “and the last thing I...

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