Game Trailer

The Gaping Chasm Between WoW Games And Their Cinematic Trailers Continues

What happens when you have 10 million subscribers pumping around $2 billion in revenue back into your company? For starters you don’t have to give a shit that your game’s trailer looks absolutely nothing like the game it’s hyping.

People have a raging hard on for World of Warcraft. Everyone from basement-dwelling Dorito eaters to Mila Kunis is waiting to get their hands on Wrath of the Lich King. I’ve never played World of Warcraft but I can appreciate that any MMO can turn into a serious addiction. And Jeff Kaplan talking about how he slipped Willie Nelson into the game is genius. Read the rest of this entry »

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Preview

Hands On With The Wrath Of The Lich King Beta

I would be what you would call a casual World of Warcraft player. I have one level 70 character – an Alliance female mage – and a few alts that I really could give two shits about. After I hit 70 I screwed around with the PvP Battlegrounds stuff for quite a while, but stopped questing, and I wasn’t going to do raid after raid after raid to have a chance in hell to get one piece of good gear. Especially when once Blizzard drops their next expansion for World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King – all your top gear is going to be crap compared to what you’ll be able to get when you progress past level 70. Read the rest of this entry »

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News

Death Knights And Willie Nelson, Inside The Wrath Of The Lich King

I don’t have any real experience with World of Warcraft. If you asked me what I expected to find in the game during my preview of the Wrath of The Lich King expansion pack with Blizzard’s Jeffery Kaplan, the game director for World of Warcraft, I would have ranked Willie Nelson somewhere between magical lizard shit and the Death Star. While Willie’s face doesn’t make it into the game he’s there in spirit by way of the new achievement system. Read the rest of this entry »

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