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Diablo III female Monk officially revealed

by John Callaham Feb 9th 2010 @ 8:00AM

The Jace Hall Show had the honor of showing off the first images of the Diablo III female Monk character but now the action-RPG's official web site has made the look of the character official. The web page featuring the monk class is now showing the character art for the female version of the class.

There's also a look at what the character's visuals look like with the in-game character model. Both the concept art and the character render make the female monk look like a cross between Annie Lennox and Jennifer Love Hewitt. At least that's how it looks to us. Your mileage may vary.

Gallery: Diablo III Screenshots

Filed under: RPG, Diablo III

More Blizzard stuff (Diablo III, StarCraft II) in latest Jace Hall show

by John Callaham Feb 5th 2010 @ 6:00PM

IGN's second episode of The Jace Hall Show is now online and it has the second part of the former Monolith head's visit to Blizzard offices. We also get to see some funny-weird stuff in this segment including Stan Lee ruining Hall's copy of Incredible Hulk 1 and original V's star Jane Badler seemingly swallowing a real life mouse (and we are not kidding about that).

But you don't really care about that. You want to know if anything was revealed in the Blizzard visit. As a matter of fact the show did show what looks like some legit art designs for the female Monk class in Diablo III . . . which Hall then tried to steal. Nice. And next week's episode takes place in a StarCraft II design meeting. What will we learn, if anything, from that show? Stay tuned. In the meantime you can check out the episode after the jump.

[Via BlizzPlanet]

Gallery: Diablo III Screenshots

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Filed under: RPG, RTS, Video, Starcraft II, Diablo III

StarCraft II reveals more character info on web site

by John Callaham Feb 5th 2010 @ 11:00AM

It's February 2010 and we thought we would be well into playing in the multiplayer beta for StarCraft II by now As it is, developer Blizzard is still keeping the many millions of people who want to get their hands on the sci-fi RTS sequel waiting, and waiting and waiting even more.

However the game's official web site is still being updates with some lore-related content. This week the site has added a bio of one of the game's characters. Matt Horner who is one of the main allies of one of StarCraft's main characters Jim Raynor. In the meantime, publisher Activision Blizzard is expected to give a status report on StarCraft II's progress as part of its quarterly financial results which will be revealed on Wednesday.

Gallery: StarCraft 2 Screenshots

Filed under: RTS, Starcraft II

Rumor: BlizzCon 2010 set for October 22-23 in Anaheim?

by John Callaham Feb 3rd 2010 @ 8:00PM

A few months ago there were strong indicators that the 2010 edition of BlizzCon would be held in Las Vegas. Those reports were pretty quickly proven to be incorrect. Now our sister site WoW.com has posted up word that Blizzard's (sort of) annual fan event may have a final date and location.

According to a post at the Anaheim (CA) Convention Center web site (that has since been removed after WoW.com's first story) BlizzCon 2010 now has a date of October 22-23. Of course the convention center has been the home of BlizzCon since its start. Blizzard has yet to officially confirm the dates and location for BlizzCon. Last year the event had 26,000 fans attend (ticket sold out almost immediately) who got to play new builds of StarCraft II and Diablo III. What's in store for this year's show? Stay tuned.

Filed under: Culture, MMO, RPG, RTS, Starcraft II, World of Warcraft, Diablo III

Download: World of Warcraft v3.3.2 International Patches

by Steven Wong Feb 3rd 2010 @ 10:15AM

This patch updates World of Warcraft and its expansions from v3.3a to v3.3.2. It mostly includes bug and gameplay fixes but also adds some additional content. Links to Mac patches can be found after the jump. Full patch notes can be found here.

Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [DE] (180 MB)
Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [GB] (180 MB)
Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [ES] (180 MB)
Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [MX] (159 MB)
Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [FR] (180 MB)
Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [KR] (152 MB)
Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [RU] (180 MB)
Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [TW] (157 MB)
Gallery: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Screenshots

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Download: World of Warcraft v3.3.2 Patch

by Steven Wong Feb 2nd 2010 @ 11:15AM

This patch updates World of Warcraft and its expansions from v3.3a to v3.3.2. It mostly includes bug and gameplay fixes but also adds some additional content. Full patch notes can be found here.

Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Patch [US] (159 MB)
Download World of Warcraft v3.3a to v3.3.2 Mac Patch [US] (158 MB)

Gallery: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Screenshots

Filed under: Downloads, Patches, MMO, RPG, World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft headset finally available to pre-order

by John Callaham Feb 1st 2010 @ 1:00PM

After a delay in its previously planned fall 2009 release, the much anticipated World of Warcraft gaming pc headsets from Creative Labs' Sound Blaster line are now available for pre-order. As expected the price for these high end PC gaming headsets is pretty expensive. The wired version of the product comes in at $119.99 while the wireless version will set you back $159.99.

Our sister site WoW.com has gotten a chance to check out the final versions of the headset and they seem to be pretty impressed. As we have reported before the product will have interchangeable headset lenses for the Horde and Alliance sides and more will be offered later such as lenses for each of World of Warcraft's 10 playable classes. There's still no word on when the headset will actually ship to customers.

Filed under: Hardware, MMO, World of Warcraft

New Diablo III screenshots reminds us about that other Blizzard game

by John Callaham Jan 31st 2010 @ 9:00AM

So there's been a flurry of activity on the StarCraft II side this week, some of it true and some of it . . . well, just wishful thinking. But Blizzard does have another game in the works. Even though the title won't be released until 2011 at the earliest, the official Diablo III web site has posted up 10 new screenshots to remind us that , yes, they are still working on their action-RPG sequel.

We have added all 10 new visuals to our own Diablo III gallery. They all appear to be from the desert-dungeon area that was first shown during BlizzCon last August. We suspect new screenshots will all we will be getting from Blizzard on the game until the next BlizzCon.

Gallery: Diablo III Screenshots

Filed under: RPG, Screenshots, Diablo III

StarCraft II beta system specs? Nope, just a placeholder, thanks

by John Callaham Jan 29th 2010 @ 4:00PM

All of us would like the beta test for StarCraft II to begin. However it looks like some unnamed person at Blizzard unwittingly decided to get tons of web sites in a frenzy by posting up a placeholder for the system specs of the long awaited RTS sequel on the European StarCraft II support site.

Lots of web sites quickly posted up the info but didn't actually read the system specs. If they did they would discover they are exactly the same as World of Warcraft's system requirements. In any case, Blizzard's PR folks have been contacting those sites to squash the "news" of the system spec. The game's official message board also has a statement, saying,"The page where this information was found was a placeholder that should not have gone up. We will have more information about the system requirements once the beta starts." In the meantime the official Blizzard support page for StarCraft II is indeed up and running and has a couple of nuggets of info but with no system specs yet.

Gallery: StarCraft 2 Screenshots

Filed under: Betas, Multiplayer, RTS, Starcraft II

Creative Labs' World of Warcraft headset release "soon"?

by John Callaham Jan 26th 2010 @ 8:00PM

Last December we put Creative Labs' upcoming World of Warcraft-branded PC gaming headset in our Vaporware section since the company was supposed to release the product by the end of 2009 but failed to do so. Now it looks like the company is gearing up to finally release the headset. As evidence the company has now launched a dedicated web page for the product.

There's a lot more info about the headset itself in terms of its technology and features, but Creative Labs is still being cagey on a release date and price. Their FAQ page does say they will be taking pre-orders in "early 2010" and will ship the headset (in wired and wireless versions) shortly after pre-orders are launched. The product looks like it will be worth the wait but the question is how much longer will we have to sit around before Creative Labs brings the headset to light.

Filed under: Hardware, MMO, World of Warcraft

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