Blizzard just announced that the band Tenacious D will be headlining this year's closing concert at BlizzCon. Comprised of Jack Black and Kyle Gass, Tenacious D is known for its rock riffs and comedic lyrics, which should be a perfect finale for BlizzCon goers. Last year's attendees were treated to a performance by Ozzy Osbourne and this year's choice promises to be no less epic.
Do you think Tenacious D can follow Ozzy and rock BlizzCon just as hard?
UPDATE: Blizzard has confirmed that patch 4.0.1 is going live tomorrow, Oct. 12.
Blizzard just announced that it will be performing 12 hours of extended maintenance on Tuesday, Oct. 12, which is a good indication that patch 4.0.1 will be going live tomorrow. This is the patch that will pave the way for Cataclysm and features revamped talent trees, the PvE/PvP currency changes, various UI changes, the Flexible Raid Lock System, and more.
Maintenance is scheduled to begin at 12 a.m. PDT and last until 12 p.m. PDT. What are you most looking forward to in patch 4.0.1?
A few days ago, Blizzard announced that a single guild will only be able to have a maximum of 600 members in Cataclysm. Well, the team reevaluated that number and just announced that the hard cap will be 1,000 members with patch 4.0.1. The cap is necessary due to the new guild system that's coming in the expansion.
Guilds with more than 1,000 members will be able to proceed at that level for as long as they want, but they'll have to drop below the 1,000 mark to add new members to the guild. So what do you think about the new cap?
A little later in the thread, Bashiok confirms that Blizzard would like to add features like a guild alliance chat channel in the future.
In an effort to step up security of Battle.net accounts around the world, Blizzard is implementing a new change to how their Battle.net authenticators work -- most notaby being the fact that Battle.net authenticators can now only be associated with one Battle.net account at a time.
Luckily, for those of you who have one authenticator bound to a multiple Battle.net accounts, you will not be affected, but should you detach this authenticator from any of your Battle.net accounts, Blizzard warns you that you will be unable to re-attach it if it is already bound to a different account.
All in all, this just means that from now on, one authenticator to one Battle.net account.
Today, Blizzard has just announced the commencement of its Cataclysm Commercial and Print Ad Contests (that's two seperate contests, mind you), where contestants can win some pretty awesome swag for creating Cataclysm-themed videos and artwork.
For the Cataclysm YouTube Video Contest, the grande prize is an Acer Predator AG7750 gaming PC equipped with a GeForce GTX 470 and 3D vision glasses, in addition to a Creative Labs Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless headset, a Xai laser mouse and Cataclysm-themed mouse pad from SteelSeries. Four runners-up will win the Creative Labs Headset, the SteelSeries Xai gaming mouse and a Cataclysm-themed mouse pad.
For the Cataclysm Print Ad Contest, the grand prize is an ASUS G53Jw gaming notebook equipped with a GeForce GTX 460m, 3D vision glasses, a Creative Labs Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset, as well as a Xai gaming mouse and a Cataclysm-themed mousepad from SteelSeries. As with the video contest, four runners-up will be able to snag themselves the headset, gaming mouse and SteelSeries mousepad.
All in all, this sounds like a great opportunity for a lot of artists who want to get geared up for Cataclysm, so good luck!
The winners of the inaugural Game Developers Choice Online Awards have been announced, and Riot Games took home five awards for League of Legends! The game earned awards for Best Online Game Design, Best Online Visual Arts, Best Online Technology, Best New Online Game, and the Audience Award!
To celebrate, Riot Games will be making all Champions free-to-play this weekend in League of Legends. Also, all summoners will receive a 4 Win IP boost by Oct. 13. Congratulations, Riot!
In other award news, Blizzard took home the Best Community Relations Award for World of Warcraft, and EVE Online won the Best Live Game Award. Aion earned Best Audio for an Online Game, and Social City was named the Best Social Network Game.
Ultima Online was inducted into the GDC Online Awards Hall of Fame. "I am thankful to be part of an amazing team, but more importantly I’m humbled by the experience and force that helped shape an industry … before there WAS an industry," Producer Calvin Crowner said on the Ultima Online site.
Blizzard just announced that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft now exceeds 12 million players worldwide. The company attributes this milestone to the recent launch of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion in mainland China and the excitement surrounding the release of Cataclysm on December 7.
So let's look at the list of noteworthy World of Warcraft news: the game just surpassed 12 million players; BlizzCon will be held later this month; WoW will celebrate its sixth anniversary on November 23; and Cataclysm comes out on December 7. It seems to be a good time to be a WoW fan. What do you think? Will the subscription base get another boost following the launch of Cataclysm?
Leafshine: Lust for Flower is a bit of an older blog than our previous two bloggers, having started back in 2007. The blog follows the ins and outs of Leafshine, a resto druid from the Steamwheel Cartel (EU).
Recent articles have covered odd things about Brewfest on the EU servers, and the difficulty of making sure you log in during a 1-day holiday (Pirate’s day). If you are curious, or into nostalgia, venture back to the days of Karazhan and the triumph of reaching exalted with the Skygaurd. There’s certainly a lot of content to keep you occupied.
As always, if you know of a blog you’d like to have featured in this space please let us know. You can e-mail us at zamfeaturedblogs@gmail.com or send a PM to someproteinguy on the forums.
Blizzard has been talking a lot about the conversion process for the upcoming PvE/PvP currency changes lately, but Nethaera just made an announcement regarding the new system that doesn't take a calculator to decipher. The post outlines how many Justice and Valor Points players will receive from bosses and daily dungeons in Cataclysm.
According to the post, Lich King heroic bosses will give 16 Justice Points while raid bosses will give 23 Justice Points. Cataclysm bosses will give 75 Justice Points in Heroic Dungeons, 75 Valor Points on 10-player and 105 Valor Points on 25-player.
Once you out-level the content, you will no longer earn points. Nethaera says that the The "outgrown" level for end-game Wrath of the Lich King content is likely to be level 81. You can read the full list of points per boss after the jump.
Blizzard just posted the schedule of events and panel descriptions for BlizzCon 2010! The event will be held from Oct. 22-23 at the Anaheim Convention Center, and the schedule appears to be packed with interesting panels and events.
If you can't attend BlizzCon, you may want to consider purchasing a Virtual Ticket that will give you access to 50+ hours of HD BlizzCon programming. The $39.95 price tag also includes an exclusive "Deathy" World of Warcraft pet and StarCraft II in-game items, as well as access to an exclusive BlizzCon merchandise sale occurring October 13-14.
Will you be attending BlizzCon or purchasing a virtual ticket? Which panels interest you the most?
