So first things first: The latest expansion for World of Warcraft, Cataclysm, sold a ton of copies in the first 24 hours. By a ton I mean 3.3 million according to Blizzard. I’m willing to bet most of WoW’s 12 million players probably picked up Cataclysm during the first week if they had any intention of playing the game. I am one of those nerds. See, I have a special relationship with WoW expansions. I forget exactly what I was doing at the time, but when the first expansion came out, Burning Crusade, I decided to stay up all night and play it. And play I did, until about 7 AM the next day. For the next one, Wrath of the Lich King, I took 2 days off from work to devote myself to nerding the f out. It’s somewhat crazy, but I feel like at this point it has become a tradition for me to have as little sleep as possible for expansions. Cataclysm was/is no different! This isn’t a REVIEW of the game proper, as there is so much to do and see and incoming hotfixes and balance changes and all that kind of stuff that I don’t feel I can give a full picture of the game. However, having played enough to hit the new level cap, 85, by Thursday afternoon when the expansion only went live two hours into Tuesday, I thought I’d give a run down of how the newly destroyed world of Azeroth is looking and how Blizzard aims to keep us all playing. FOREVER. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE!
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Blizzcon 2010: A Journey in Pictures
(If your looking for the more recent article for Blizzcon 2011, it’s HERE)
I was lucky enough to attend Blizzcon 2010, Blizzards sort of yearly festival of nerding the f out. I figure at this point if you’re a person who is all over every detail of every Blizzard games (such as ME) then you probably have all the newsy stuff digested already. The aim of this article is not to summarize all the stuff Blizzard dropped on us (which there actually wasn’t a ton) but more give a point of view of what it was like to actually be at the con and walk the hallowed halls of the Anaheim Convention Center. A quick note: For some reason my camera imported all these pictures at freaking 4000×3000 pixels. I’m way too lazy to go through and resize all of these right now, so I’m just posting them in smaller form in the article. If you want to see a larger version (I KNOW YOU WILL BE CLICKING ON THE HOT NIGHT ELVES) go ahead and click, but I HIGHLY recommend you have the option of fitting pictures to your browser enabled or it gets HUGE. Other than that, enjoy!
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