Might have to play some WoW

I haven’t played World of Warcraft for a while, and while this commercial most likely won’t make me play for long, it sure makes me smile.  How can you not like Mr. T???  I mean, c’mon, it looks like he could still come to your house and toss you through a door like on Games People Play.

New Diablo 3 class announced

The penultimate class reveal for "Diablo 3" was unveiled at BllizzCon 2009 today. The Monk will join the already announced Barbarian, Witch Doctor and Wizard. In case you can't guess, he's the guy on the right.

As with most Monk classes in RPGs, this Monk will focus on hand-to-hand attacks, but also has the ability to weild weapons. Oh, and he's got magic to boot! Think of him like a Buddhist Druid.

The Monk should be playable on the show floor, so we should be getting reports back shortly on just what to expect. Oh, and hopefully Blizzard's website will start working again so we can grab a nice high-rez trailer too!

[via MTV]

Blizzard Entertainment® Soundtracks Now On iTunes

IRVINE, Calif. -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that a wide selection of music from its popular games has been added to the iTunes store. Much of this music was originally available only in collector's editions of the games, or at special events such as the company's BlizzCon® gaming convention. Six Blizzard Entertainment® soundtrack albums are currently available:

StarCraft® Original Soundtrack

Diablo® II Original Soundtrack

Warcraft® III: Reign of Chaos® Original Soundtrack

World of Warcraft® Original Soundtrack

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade® Original Soundtrack

World of Warcraft: Taverns of Azeroth Original Soundtrack

The albums have been placed on a new Blizzard Entertainment hub page within the iTunes store. This page also hosts content such as the BlizzCast™ podcast and trailers and gameplay footage from upcoming Blizzard Entertainment games, with more material to be added in the months ahead. In addition, the "Diablo III Overture" from the company's recently announced action role-playing game, Diablo III, is available as a single and has been highlighted as a Discovery Download, making it free to download until Tuesday, September 9.



Players in the regions iTunes serves (North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan) can purchase the music at standard rates for each of those regions. For more information, please visit www.blizzard.com.

Diablo 3 Class preview

Looks like that mysterious splash screen that Blizzard had everyone in an uproar over was indeed the announcement of Diablo 3.  And it looks incredible.  Here's a video of the gameplay of the different classes.

Blizzard Increases Difficulty On WoW Mobs

Well WoW fans, if you thought you were going to breeze through the 'Black Temple' you got another thing coming!!!

Blizzard plans to increases the damage output of virtual mobs in some of the game’s boss encounters. The decision is a response to a WoW guild already conquering the game’s latest raid content that came in a patch update just two weeks ago.

European guild Nihilum has already conquered the Black Temple and slaying one of the most significant and terrifying figure in Warcraft lore, Illidan Stormrage. Oh Nooo!!!!!!

One of Blizzard’s game designers, Daelo, said that the difficulty tweak is also based on the demand of a greater challenge by guilds rapidly progressing through the game.

Blizzard Announces StarCraft 2

It looks like we will be returning once again to the world of StarCraft, and not in the form of a Massively Multiplayer game.

Blizzard has announced StarCraft 2 at their packed event in Seoul, South Korea. IGN is liveblogging the event, describing gameplay footage being played as well as full cinematics. From the description of ongoing events there are massive changes to the way the game plays, new units, a physics system within the game engine, and the capability to show over 100 units onscreen at a time.

This has been a long awaited game, and it has an fan base that will be hard to please. But judging from this trailer, Blizzard might just pull it off.

Check out the trailer after the jump.

Blizzard working on Next-Gen MMO?

I saw this in my e-mail from Game Informer and had to tell all who are Blizzard fans!!!

Blizzard Working On "Next-Gen MMO"?
by Jeff Cork
POSTED: 4/27/2007 1:20 PM

Blizzard has added a trio of positions to the job-opening section on its Web site, fueling speculation on what exactly the software giant has up its mighty sleeve. The positions—for a lead engine programmer, lead tools programmer and lead technical artist—all mention a focus on "next-generation massively multiplayer online games." This is where nerd minds start racing to fill in the information gaps. Of course, with a planned May product announce in Korea of all places, as well as one of Blizzard's vice president's own enthusiasm for the series, StarCraft seems like a franchise ripe for an MMO treatment...