Partying at BlizzCon

Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, WoW Insider Business, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, BlizzCon
Tickets are only going on sale today, but already people are planning the most important part of BlizzCon: the parties. There’s a whole crew of people planning to meet up at the Hilton, and if the past few years are any [...]

Forum post of the day: Go blues!

Filed under: Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Blizzard, Forum Post of the Day
Snaboo of Greymane shouted out to the Blizzard posters on the forums. He appreciates that they are being customer focused and social. This elicited positive responses from a handful of blue posters, except Bornakk, who’s still grumpy.
Some posters disagreed about the attention the blues [...]

DreamHack to feature its own WoW realm

Filed under: Events, News items
DreamHack, the world’s biggest LAN party (according to Guinness), takes place in Sweden twice a year. They’ve just made an announcement of interest to us WoW players: at this year’s summer event (June 13-16, assuming “Juni” means what I think it means), they’ll have their own WoW realm. This is something [...]

Ready Check: Casual meets hardcore

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, (Raiding) Ready Check

Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, Archavon or Algalon, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, I attempt to find common ground with a casual player who’s never raided and doesn’t [...]

…is now recruiting

Filed under: Fan stuff, Guilds, PvP, Instances, Raiding
I’ve been reading the comments from some of our recent posts and realized that there is quite a bit of mismatch between players and guilds. There are casual players in hardcore guilds that find themselves being passed over in content. There are hardcore players in casual guilds that [...]

BlizzCon tickets already on eBay

Filed under: BlizzCon

The first batch of tickets to this year’s BlizzCon in Anaheim sold out less than thirty minutes after they became available on Blizzard’s Battle.Net store. While some buyers included sincere conference attendees such as our own Matt Low, the latest crop of goods over at eBay might provide another insight as to why [...]

What’s your best Blizzcon memory?

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, BlizzCon
Did you manage to get your tickets? I’m sure there will be plenty of folks who are returning to BlizzCon. I wasn’t able to go but I followed WoW Insider’s coverage of the event from the opening ceremonies to the final concert. It was an awesome time for [...]

BlizzCon Flashback: The Panels of BlizzCon 2008

Filed under: BlizzCon

Tickets are sold out for the day, and most of us are probably a little angry, but don’t forget! There’s another day of ticket sales on the 30th! If you haven’t made your decision on whether you want to go or not yet, you’re running out of time and it’s probably a good [...]