Rumours sprang up earlier that the next WoW expansion will be centred on the fluffy race of panda people and their mysterious homeland (which cunningly doesn’t seem to fit on regular maps of Azeroth so that’s some clever island hiding right there.) This was based in Blizzard having taken out a trademark for the name, [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Rumours of a Pandaren Based WoW Expansion (are greatly exaggerated)
Posted in general mmo, tagged expansion, panda, pandaren, rumour, wow on August 3, 2011 | 29 Comments »
Street Fighter x Tekken: craziest panel at SDCC
Posted in general mmo, tagged panel, poison, sdcc, street fighter, tekken on August 3, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I don’t think I have ever played a fighting game, but after sitting through the Street Fighter x Tekken panel at Comic Con (it was just before the SWTOR one), I think I may be tempted. Here’s a link to video of the entire 45 minute panel. I’ll try to sum up below. The Japanese [...]
Diablo 3 and the Real Money Auction House (Diablocalypse?)
Posted in general mmo, tagged announcement, auction house, blizzard, diablo 3, no mods, offline, real money on August 1, 2011 | 53 Comments »
Yesterday, Blizzard disdained the notion of adjusting potential customers’ expectations for an upcoming game gently in favour of dropping a PR bombshell during a press/ fansite preview day for Diablo 3. There is a lot to like about the new game, with features that I think players will enjoy, but that is now going to [...]
[GW2] Paws-on at Comic Con
Posted in general mmo, guild wars 2, tagged comic con, guild wars, gw2, sdcc on August 1, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Starting with some admissions: 1. I very very very very rarely actually watch any pre-release videos or trailers these days, am a bit strung out on hype for MMOs 2. I’m in a massive MMO rut at the moment due to extended periods of back pain and 8 weeks of physio when I was told [...]