Utgarde Keep video

by Mike Schramm Aug 9th 2007 at 3:06PM

Blizzard strictly forbade any video or pictures of live gameplay during BlizzCon, so for fear of not being able to cover the whole thing for you guys, I stayed away from breaking that rule. But apparently Gameriot was not so rule-abiding, and they grabbed some shaky footage of the first dungeon we'll see in Northrend, Utgarde Keep.

They played the same parts I did on my walkthrough, including the gigantic furnace walls, new Vrykul race, a few "proto-drakes," and the first boss, the Warlock who summons some big Vrykul skellys throughout the fight. There's not a lot new to hear about if you've been reading everything so far, but if you weren't able to make it to BlizzCon, it'll be your first chance to see everything from Northrend's first 5man on video.

[ via Curse ]

Tags: blizzcon, firewalls, furnace, gameriot, northrend, shadowbolt, summon, utgarde-keep, utgardekeep, video, vrykul, warlock, wow-dungeons, wrath-of-the-lich-king, wrathofthelichking

Filed under: Blizzard, Expansions, Raiding, BlizzCon, Wrath of the Lich King

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Addictions Aug 9th 2007 3:15PM

I have a screen shot of killing the first boss in Utgarde Keep. With my PTR xfer Charcter and 4 other dudes with 2 were my buddies. Tell me where to post it and i will. All the first boss droped was that Monkey pet you can get from the WoW Card game. My name was Addiction.

Pingmeister Aug 9th 2007 3:16PM

Dear Lord. www.gameriot.com used to be my old website. I sold it to some dude for a few bucks and found out it was RJReynolds that bought it.

Okay, back on topic.

Addictions Aug 9th 2007 3:33PM

" Blizzard strictly forbade any video or pictures of live gameplay during BlizzCon "

You could take Pictures Mike, You could not take Video and if you reached that point to the first boss to get a shot at him... They would give you extra time, not just 20 mins of play time. We had 4 - 5 shots at the boss till we got him down the 6th time. We were the first and only ones that i know of that got that far in that instance the rest of the people were running around and pvp'ing but each to there own i guess. Im a raider so thats what i looked for and from what we seen wile playing there are 2 instances Upper and Lower Utgarde Keep. Sucky part is not being able to use your mount to run all the way in which wasted alot of time. So its going to be like getting to UBRS / BRD / MC all over again which is very sad face.

Sergio Aug 9th 2007 5:28PM

There were others that killed the first boss.

http://www.worldofraids.com/#6336

Mike Schramm Aug 9th 2007 8:56PM

@Addictions, well I played in the press room where playtime was unlimited. :) But yeah I didn't snap any pictures. We heard reports of people taking pictures of Starcraft II gameplay on the floor and being asked to leave the building. So I didn't test any boundaries at all. We took lots of pictures (and even some movies) of the gameplay videos, though, and even though Blizzard supposedly banned all laptops from the convention floor, we had ours out and blogging the whole time.

qddesigns Aug 10th 2007 3:21AM

http://forums.wroughtfromruin.com/index.php?showforum=20

Im not sure it we were the first to do it at BlizzCon or not but i have yet to see any other screen shots Mike :)

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