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Welcome to BlizzCon 2009

Reporting to you live from Anaheim, California, the Joystiq Network is pleased to provide you with up to the minute reporting on everything coming from Blizzard Entertainment this weekend.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm


 

Ghostcrawler on Cataclysm's talent tree philosophy, abilities, and Ragnaros

12 days ago: Ghostcrawler posted a bit this evening on the philosophical direction Blizzard is taking in Cataclysm in three important areas: Talent trees New spells and abilities Recycled raid content The ... continue.

 

Incentives for appropriate gear types coming in Cataclysm

12 days ago: One thing that has been frustrating cloth, leather, and mail wearers for quite some time is the ability for players with a higher type of armor cherry picking through their armor. In some cases, this ... continue.

 

Ghostcrawler on hunter ammo replacement

17 days ago: As you may recall, Blizzard announced their intent to get rid of consumable ammo in Patch 3.1, only to withdraw the change a short time later, with the promise of reimplementing it at a nebulous ... continue.

 

Paul Sams: "We will not pull the rug out from under them"

18 days ago: In a fascinating post over at Gamesindustry.biz, Blizzard COO Paul Sams takes great pains to emphasize that Blizzard will ship no game before its time (to rip off an old wine slogan): "We will not ... continue.

 

Possible changes to tabards, backpacks, and banks

24 days ago: In the recent Blizzard developer chat there were several questions pertaining to player storage. They spoke about the issue with storing tabards from all of your various factions, the default ... continue.

World of Warcraft


 

Jay Mohr is hosting BlizzCon again

5 days ago: Love him or hate him, it looks like Jay Mohr is hosting BlizzCon again this year. Recently, we reported that the Anaheim Convention Center would be hosting BlizzCon toward the end of October. But ... continue.

 

Officers' Quarters: Cataclysm's guild revamp -- guild currency

3 months ago: Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. After Blizzard's big announcement about how they plan to improve guilds in Cataclysm, ... continue.

 

Officers' Quarters: From the mail bag

4 months ago: Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. Hello, fellow officers! This week I'm going to try something a little bit different ... continue.

 

Grunty the Murloc Marine arrives for DirecTV viewers

4 months ago: Memories of BlizzCon have started to fade over the last month, but today another reminder of the event pops up. If you watched it via DirectTV you should shortly be receiving an email letting you ... continue.

 

Fan-created documentary about BlizzCon: An event for fans

5 months ago: Reader Encifer sent us a link to this excellent fan-directed documentary short about BlizzCon. Just a few days ago, I kind of panned the LA Times for treating BlizzCon as such an alien thing, but this ... continue.

Diablo 3


 

Diablo III female Monk officially revealed

15 hours ago: The Jace Hall Show had the honor of showing off the first images of the Diablo III female Monk character but now the action-RPG's official web site has made the look of the character official. The web ... continue.

 

Diablo 3's female Monk designs revealed on The Jace Hall Show

3 days ago: In a recent segment on The Jace Hall Show, the typically secretive Blizzard dev team gave the towering host/television producer/Monolith founder a sneak peek at some of the concept art for the ... continue.

 

More Blizzard stuff (Diablo III, StarCraft II) in latest Jace Hall show

4 days ago: IGN's second episode of The Jace Hall Show is now online and it has the second part of the former Monolith head's visit to Blizzard offices. We also get to see some funny-weird stuff in this segment ... continue.

 

Rumor: BlizzCon 2010 set for October 22-23 in Anaheim?

6 days ago: A few months ago there were strong indicators that the 2010 edition of BlizzCon would be held in Las Vegas. Those reports were pretty quickly proven to be incorrect. Now our sister site WoW.com has ... continue.

 

New Diablo III screens have derailed our train of thought

9 days ago: Blizzard recently released yet another batch of gameplay screenshots from Diablo III, showing off some of the game's arid environments. They're attractive as all-get-out, but we've become extremely ... continue.

Starcraft II


 

StarCraft 2 web site offers new Battle.Net 2.0 preview

1 hour ago: It's looking like the long awaited multiplayer beta for StarCraft II is finally getting close to launching. When Blizzard announced that the beta for the highly anticipated RTS sequel would be pushed ... continue.

 

Battle.net preview: Real ID

3 hours ago: There is a Battle.net preview up at the official StarCraft II site. While much of it talks of the integration of the StarCraft with the new Battle.net, including new mod functionality and better ... continue.

 

More Blizzard stuff (Diablo III, StarCraft II) in latest Jace Hall show

4 days ago: IGN's second episode of The Jace Hall Show is now online and it has the second part of the former Monolith head's visit to Blizzard offices. We also get to see some funny-weird stuff in this segment ... continue.

 

StarCraft II reveals more character info on web site

4 days ago: It's February 2010 and we thought we would be well into playing in the multiplayer beta for StarCraft II by now As it is, developer Blizzard is still keeping the many millions of people who want to ... continue.

 

Rumor: BlizzCon 2010 set for October 22-23 in Anaheim?

6 days ago: A few months ago there were strong indicators that the 2010 edition of BlizzCon would be held in Las Vegas. Those reports were pretty quickly proven to be incorrect. Now our sister site WoW.com has ... continue.

Untitled MMO


 

Blizzard CEO calls shipping an unfinished product, 'devastating'

21 days ago: When you're going to make a statement, you may as well make it a good one, right? Well, Blizzard CEO Paul Sams has delivered in that regard. Speaking with Gamesindustry.biz (a free account is ... continue.

 

Rumor: Blizzard's next MMO a first person shooter title?

1 month ago: We are not sure why 2010 has started with a ton of anonymous game rumor stories but it certainly has. The latest one comes from French language web site NoFrag.com which claims via their own unnamed ... continue.

 

Rumor: Blizzard's next MMO to be an MMOFPS

1 month ago: Yep, another MMO rumor for you guys about the Blizzard's next title. While Blizzard has been very adamant in saying that their next MMO would be very different from World of Warcraft, there might be ... continue.

 

Will Blizzard show their next MMO at BlizzCon 2010?

1 month ago: WoW.com's Zach Yonzon takes a speculative look at BlizzCon 2010 and all the possibilities that lie ahead. The article predicts that Blizzard will officially announce their sophomore MMO effort this ... continue.

 

Feature: Black Ops PC Games For 2010

1 month ago: It's been an interesting last 12 months for games on our "Black Ops" list. These are the games that we know are under development but officially unannounced. A few months ago we talked about the ... continue.

BlizzCon 2009


 

Jay Mohr is hosting BlizzCon again

5 days ago: Love him or hate him, it looks like Jay Mohr is hosting BlizzCon again this year. Recently, we reported that the Anaheim Convention Center would be hosting BlizzCon toward the end of October. But ... continue.

 

Rumor: BlizzCon 2010 set for October 22-23 in Anaheim?

6 days ago: A few months ago there were strong indicators that the 2010 edition of BlizzCon would be held in Las Vegas. Those reports were pretty quickly proven to be incorrect. Now our sister site WoW.com has ... continue.

 

BlizzCon 2010 tentatively scheduled for late October [Updated x2]

6 days ago: Just moments ago, we received an email from a reader notifying us that BlizzCon has been scheduled for October 22nd and 23rd at the Anaheim Convention Center. That's a Friday and a Saturday, which ... continue.

 

Will Blizzard show their next MMO at BlizzCon 2010?

1 month ago: WoW.com's Zach Yonzon takes a speculative look at BlizzCon 2010 and all the possibilities that lie ahead. The article predicts that Blizzard will officially announce their sophomore MMO effort this ... continue.

 

Speculating on BlizzCon 2010

1 month ago: It's a new year and that means another opportunity to play oracle and figure out what Blizzard's plans are for 2010. BlizzPlanet has gone ahead and tossed out some of their ideas on what will happen ... continue.

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