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Lore Hound MMOcast 18: Books are Real Life Minigames

27 August 2010 | 1 Comment » | LHStaff

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Now Playing:

News:

  • E3 2010: The Contest is still looking for winners. An executive decision will be made if three people don’t find the glasses, so submit your entry no matter what!
  • Cataclysm CE announced. Curse of the Worgen comic incoming.
  • New blogger Ronix jumps into the mix with an interesting look at the F2P market and where it’s headed and how Blizzard got its never-fail reputation.
  • Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures dated, special box edition coming.
  • EverQuest Next & EQII: Destiny announced at Fan Faire.
  • APB changing weapons further, mission structure also being tweaked. Realtime Worlds sinking.
  • Jagex finally reveals something about Stellar Dawn, a trailer.
  • Ultima Online, the game that will never die, to receive future live events.
  • SWG players receive anniversary gift. It’s a treehouse? WTF?
  • Runes of Magic: The Elder Kingdoms announced, to add in game marriages, raise level cap.
  • Neverwinter Nights MMOG rumors resurface.
  • New Guild Wars 2 video showcases developers, gameplay. Watch it, it delivers on some of the promises.
  • Rumor: Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s space combat to be on-rails. Space combat trailer is now in the wild.
  • GamesCom 2010: BioWare announces 10 advanced classes. Guild Wars 2 demo video here, necro class confirmed

Discussion:

It’s a busy week with news, announcements trailers and teasers, yet no game releases since APB, which isn’t doing so hot. With WoW in a downswing and nothing on the immediate horizon, do you think this window is a missed opportunity by developers/publishers?

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Cataclysm Collector’s Edition Announced: Mini Deathwing Pet!

17 August 2010 | 9 Comments » | Heartbourne

The Cataclysm is nearly upon us! Blizzard has announced the contents of the Cataclysm Collector’s Edition. Now might be the time to preorder the Cataclysm novel to get the Cataclysm backstory and the regular edition of Cataclysm or the CE if you so desire.

The contents and announcement are as follows:

Cataclysm Collector’s Edition Annoucement

IRVINE, Calif – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced plans for a limited-release Collector’s Edition of World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm™, the third expansion for the world’s most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game,* World of Warcraft. The special Collector’s Edition package, which will only be available at retail stores, will include the following exclusive bonus items in addition to the game disc:

Art of the Cataclysm art book, featuring 176 pages of never-before-seen images from the archives of the Blizzard Entertainment cinematics department and the World of Warcraft development team, as well as progressive visuals from multiple stages of development.
Exclusive in-game pet: he may not be a breaker of worlds just yet, but Lil’ Deathwing will still proudly accompany heroes on their struggle to save Azeroth from his much, much larger counterpart.
Behind-the-scenes DVD with over an hour of developer interviews and commentaries, as well as a special Warcraft® retrospective examining the rich gaming history of the Warcraft universe.
Soundtrack featuring 10 epic new tracks from Cataclysm, including exclusive bonus tracks.
Special-edition mouse pad depicting Deathwing menacing the ravaged continents of Azeroth.
World of Warcraft Trading Card Game cards, including a 60-card starter deck from the Wrathgate series, two extended-art cards, and two Collector’s Edition-exclusive hero cards, marking the first appearance of goblin and worgen heroes in the TCG.
The first two World of Warcraft expansions, The Burning Crusade® and Wrath of the Lich King®, each shattered PC game sales records upon their release. In Cataclysm, the face of Azeroth will be forever altered by the return of the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing. Players will explore once-familiar areas of the world that have now been reshaped by the devastation and filled with new adventures. In an effort to survive the planet-shattering cataclysm, two new playable races — worgen and goblins — will join the struggle between the Alliance and the Horde. As players journey to the new level cap of 85, they’ll discover newly revealed locations, acquire new levels of power, and come face to face with Deathwing in a battle to determine the fate of the world.

The beta test for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is currently underway. To set up a Battle.net account and sign up for a chance to participate, please visit the official Battle.net website at http://www.battle.net.

The World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector’s Edition will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh® at a suggested retail price of $79.99. The release date and other details for the game will be announced in the months ahead. For more information on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, please visit the official website at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm.

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