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Blizzard Opens Pet Store, Stocks Up On Cedar Chips
Today we’re pleased to introduce the Pet Store for World of Warcraft, a new way for players to obtain in-game pets to join them on their adventures in Azeroth. Two brand-new companions are now available for purchase exclusively at the Pet Store in the online Blizzard Store: Lil’ K.T. and the P...
Tuesday, Nov 3
We Do A Sweepstakes, They Do A Sweepstakes
Blizzard is once again giving away pretty cool prizes to random players, and this time the gifts are in celebration of the 5-year-anniversary of World Of Warcraft. Their announcement is here, but if you dig a little deeper, you can find the full prize list here. It goes like this: If you cre...
Friday, Oct 30
Sunday Is Day Of The Dead In WoW
Blizzard has implemented a slew of minor holidays into World of Warcraft over the last few years, and if you only play on one or two days of the week, they’re easy to miss. The very next short in-game holiday is Day Of The Dead, which is set to run from Sunday, Nov. 1 through [...]
Sunday, Oct 25
Podcast: The Instance #167 – We Swim In The Hallow End Of The Pool
Big News Of The Week 3.3 Is Going To Be Bigger Than We Thought Last week, we spent most of Rumors And Scuttlebutt talking about what players are telling us they’re dreaming about getting in World of Warcraft… someday, and since then we’ve gotten all sorts of interesting tidbits from the Publ...
Saturday, Oct 17
Podcast: The Instance #166 – “Big Heals On Nanna!”
It’s been over two months now since patch 3.2 arrived in World Of Warcraft, bringing the Crusader’s Colosseum, Tier 9 epic gear, Isle Of Conquest battleground, and all of the other accouterments we’ve come to expect from a major patch to the game. Well folks, we reckon that we’re now less tha...
Monday, Sep 28
Podcast: The Instance #164 – I’m On A Yacht!
They have arrived! Fresh from their debut at BlizzCon 2009, the fun and adorable murloc plush dolls, two of the hottest items for sale at the show, are now available to the general public via the Blizzard Online Store. The blue Murky plush doll and the white Lurky plush doll are only $15.00 eac...
Saturday, Sep 19
Podcast: The Instance #163 – I Will Paint My Face With Your Blood
Blizzard Drops The Curtain In Austin In a thread on the World Of Warcraft forums this week, a poster named Shadowavatar from Boulderfist repeated what we read from an e-mail on this show two weeks ago: And he got a response from Blizzard. Bornakk replied with the following:
Sunday, Apr 5
Podcast: The Instance #141 - Curt Schilling Comes Out Of Retirement
OUTSTANDING TV OR THEATRICAL AD Ozzy Osborne – “Prince of Darkness”OUTSTANDING TV OR THEATRICAL CAMPAIGN World of Warcraft 2008 “What’s your Game?” TV CampaignBEST WRAPPING - PRODUCT PACKAGING Wrath of the Lich King Standard EditionOUTSTANDING OVERALL MARKETING CAMPAIGN World of...
Sunday, Mar 29
Podcast: The Instance #140 - It’s Wintertime In Warsong
1. This brand-new game is not a World of Warcraft expansion, and it is not related to the Next-Gen MMO. 2. In the present, the brand-new game is using the World of Warcraft engine merely for testing purposes. 4. Whether this game is based on the three major franchises (Warcraft, Starcraft or Diab...
Saturday, Mar 21
Podcast: The Instance #139 - Worldwide Hysteria, Free Addons, Mages And Horde Drinks For All
In the near future, you’ll be able to see World of Warcraft characters in a new place — the beverage aisle. This summer, Mountain Dew will launch Game Fuel in two World of Warcraft-inspired flavors — Alliance Blue (wild fruit flavor) and Horde Red (citrus cherry flavor) — available for a lim...
Tuesday, Mar 10
Podcast: The Instance #138 - Together Again And Live From The Hot Tub
Big News Of The Week We’re Going On A Spectral Safari Don’t miss Upper Deck’s “Spectral Safari,” a global, one-day World of Warcraft Miniatures Game tournament at select hobby stores on March 14 and 15, 2009. The victor of each individual tournament will bag one of the biggest World of Warc...
Tuesday, Feb 17
Podcast: The Instance #136 - You’ve Been Through A Lot With That Sack
Already in the big leagues, Blizzard announced that former World Of Warcraft Game Director Jeff Kaplan has been promoted to lead the team that is developing the secret “next-gen MMO” that Blizzard has been talking about not talking about for the last year and a half. The announcement came...
Wednesday, Feb 4
Podcast: The Instance #135 - Dabbling In The Arcane
Now WoW is coming for your soul. A University of Colorado grad student named Theo Zijderveld decided to make it his master’s thesis that…well, let’s just let Theo speak for himself. “World Of Warcraft can be so absorbing that the physical becomes unimportant.” Zijderveld touched of a storm...
Wednesday, Jan 21
Podcast: The Instance #134 - Lake Wintergrasp Sounds Vaguely Canadian
As we record tonight, The United States Of America has a new President who has only been in office for a few hours and Blizzard has a bit of a mess on their hands that started a few hours ago with the release of patch 3.0.8 for World Of Warcraft. We’re experiencing and hearing about two big issues at...
Friday, Jan 9
Podcast: The Instance #133 - Reverse Hydrocution
The iTunes Subscription Big News Of The Week Patch 3.0.8 To WoW Is Imminent Blizzard updated the patch notes for the next code change to the game yesterday, and it looks to us like we’re only a week or two away from seeing some useful, as well as some questionable changes to Azeroth, Outland and...
Sunday, Dec 14
Podcast: The Instance #131 - That Hunter Is Made Of Nerf!
One of the design goals for Wrath of the Lich King was to elevate storytelling in World of Warcraft to new heights. Northrend is brought to life by engaging quests, memorable characters, beautiful environments, and the introduction of a brand-new feature: in-game cinematics. The first o...
Saturday, Nov 22
Podcast: The Instance #129 - And My Druid Is Awesome
Blizzard announced on Thursday that the 2nd expansion to World Of Warcraft sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. This eclipses the previous record of nearly 2.4 million copies sold in 24 hours, set by The Bur...
Saturday, Nov 15
Podcast: The Instance #128 - Wrath Of The Gender Reassignments
As you may or may not have heard, a little change came to World Of Warcraft yesterday, with the launch of a mostly insignificant patch that even has it’s own title - Wrath Of The Lich King. We’ve rarely seen something so small create so much hysteria. Even Cowgirls Get Realm Queues
Saturday, Nov 1
Podcast: The Instance #122: “Give back my honor!”
For the first time in several patches, Blizzard appears to have announced a firm date for the release of 3.0.2, which is the big setup for Wrath Of The Lich King, as going live on October 14, the Tuesday after Blizzcon. The patch got a name - “Echos Of Doom” - and an ‘under development’ page here.
Friday, Oct 31
Podcast: The Instance #127 - The Zombie Invasion
All of Azeroth will feel the Wrath of the Lich King in just a couple of weeks, when the second World of Warcraft expansion officially launches. If you want to be among the first to get your hands on the game, thousands of retailers around the world are hosting special midnight store openings t...
Monday, Sep 29
Podcast: The Instance #121: In the Dog House
Blizzard To Wipe Away Your Sins Blizzard announced this week that they will be wiping away all of your honor, all of your marks, and everything that you might use to purchase PvP rewards in the expansion. Town Cryer Tom A. writes: Bejeweled In WoW
Saturday, Sep 13
Podcast: The Instance #119 - The Banana Hammock Gergaling
In anticipation of the upcoming World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion, Wildstorm and Blizzard Entertainment have created a four-issue miniseries chronicling the Ashbringer’s tale, written by Blizzard’s Micky Neilson and featuring art by Ludo Lullabi and Tony Washing...
Friday, Sep 5
Podcast: The Instance #118 - I want to be a dentist
Big News Of The Week Blizzard Brings The Tunes Just when you thought you’d never hear a WoW Soundtrack story called the big news of anything, Blizzard unexpectedly got the soundtracks from StarCraft, Diablo II, Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, and The Burning Crusade all published for s...
Thursday, Aug 7
Podcast: The Instance #116 - More Random Pornography Inside Elevators
Blizzard Really Wants You To Multibox Game On, Comrade! Town Cryer Fenwar of the Guild writes: Drop Of The Week Warcraft Legends, Vol. 1 Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.
Saturday, Jul 26
Podcast: The Instance #115 - En Español, But Not Really
Blizzard Goes To Comic-Con There was a Blizzard dev present at the joint panel yesterday, and the audience wanted to know about the future of World Of Warcraft. Nothing surprising was forthcoming, but a couple of the exchanges caught our attention. World Of Warcraft: En Español
Podcast: The Instance #114: “Touch the Chinchilla!”
Big News Of The Week Wrath Of The Lich King Beta Is Underway Blizzard announced today that Beta Invitations are going out via e-mail to randomly chosen entrants for the Beta to the 2nd expansion of World of Warcraft. Here’s the page where you can still sign up for the beta, and here’s a separat...
Saturday, Jul 12
Podcast: The Instance #111 - You Can’t Stop The Signal
Big News Of The Week That Level 30? She’s Got A Ticket To Ride The incremental patch 2.4.3 hit the WoW public test realms this week with quite a bit of bluster for what appears to be a small patch. Different parts of the WoW community are interested in different aspects of the patch, but [...]
Podcast: The Instance #112 - “We Want A Cereal Pet”
Just two weeks ago on this show, we talked about Blizzard’s test of an unusual two-factor authentication system in Taiwan, and suggested that they should implement something… anything multi-factor in the U.S. And they have. Blizzard handed them out at the WWI, and then sold their first bat...
Thursday, Jun 12
Podcast: The Instance #110 - A Gnome with a Knife
Onion News Network Announces New WoW Expansion World Of World Of Warcraft. Thanks to everyone who let us know the instant this hit the web. Town Cryer Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.
Friday, Jun 6
Podcast: The Instance #109 - Even Home Depot Calls Us
When Are We Going To Get A New Cinematic From Blizzard? Town Cryer Fartsostank from the guild on the Blackhand server writes: Drop Of The Week Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.
Friday, May 30
Podcast: The Instance #108 - Don’t Quit Your Day Job
A critical vulnerability was discovered this week in the popular web-content delivery program Adobe Flash, and it could potentially be used to target World of Warcraft players and accounts. The newest available version of Adobe Flash, version 9.0.124.0, does not contain this vulnerabil...
Saturday, May 24
Podcast: The Instance #105 - “How do you spell AIE?”
The Grand Prize winner will also receive guaranteed entry into the Wrath of the Lich King beta test. Two Runner Up winners will also be selected to receive guaranteed entry into the beta test of the upcoming World of Warcraft® expansion Wrath of the Lich King. For European listeners.
Podcast: The Instance #107 - A Leak You Can’t Take Back
Big News Of The Week You Can’t Stop The Signal A flood of leaked information about the Wrath Of The Lich King expansion, taken directly from the alpha testing client for the forthcoming 2nd expansion to World of Warcraft, exploded across the Internet this week. Everything from notes about...
Podcast: The Instance #106 - Do Your Daily Fiber
Big News Of The Week Blizz Wants To Be Where Everybody Plays Their Games On Monday, Blizzard Entertainment announced plans for its third BlizzCon gaming convention, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 10 and 11. BlizzCon is a celebration of the gl...
Saturday, Apr 26
Podcast: The Instance #103 - “Transplant my Dungeon”
Blizzard posted a sweet new contest this week. Create a music video using footage from World of Warcraft and the original song, “Rogues Do it From Behind” and submit it to us, via our submission page. Videos can be no bigger than 50 megabytes in size and must be recorded in .WMV, .MOV, or .AVI forma...
Tuesday, Apr 15
Podcast: The Instance #102 - “The Curt Schilling Episode”
Big News Of The Week Wrath Of The Lich King May Be Alpha Testing That’s right, a well-sourced rumor started making the rounds today that the 2nd Expansion to World Of Warcraft may be alpha testing as we speak. First, the clearly useful “beta.worldofwarcraft.com” came online on April 2, and th...
Podcast: The Instance #101 - “An Acre of Ham”
The 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament Is Underway Blizzard Celebrates Their Biggest Holiday Of The Year New World of Warcraft Hero Class: Bard New StarCraft II Unit: Tauren Marine World of Warcraft on a Console Diablo Loot Piñata Stormclaw from the Alexstraza Realm writes:
Podcast: The Instance #99 - “Orcs have destroyed Orlando”
Are you ready to take on the world in the arenas? The World of Warcraft team will be testing the WoW Arena Tournament on the Tournament Test Realm, and you are invited to be a part of the action. Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Co...
Podcast: The Instance #100 - “Group Raid!”
Tickets for the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational convention and tournament gaming event are now available on the Worldwide Invitational website. This year’s Blizzard Worldwide Invitational will take place in Paris, France, at the Porte de Versailles Exposition...
Sunday, Feb 10
Podcast: The Instance #96: “Patch 2.4 Grazytown USA”
Big News Of The Week 2.4 All Over The Test Realms Blizzard activated patch 2.4 on the Public Test Realms this weekend, causing a flurry of reports from every direction on changes to World Of Warcraft that are incoming with the Sunwell Plateau patch, due out in a couple of months or so. We’ve got s...
Saturday, Jan 26
Podcast: The Instance #94: “Fake patch, better features”
Big News Of The Week Blizzard’s Wrath Of The Lich King Bestiary Is Online Just today, Blizzard launched the latest morsel upon which you can whet your appetite for the upcoming 2nd expansion to the game - the Wrath Bestiary. “Wrath of the Lich King will introduce a vast new land and many new du...
Saturday, Jan 5
Podcast: The Instance #91: “I wanna learn some dirty tricks”
Big News Of The Week It’s A New Year! 2008 is upon us, and there are many expectations for World Of Warcraft this year. But before we take too many steps forward, we have a look back at 2007. Rumors and Scuttlebutt Randydeluxe, Whole Guild Gets Robbed Gold sellers suck. Don’t fund the gold seller...
Sunday, Dec 23
Podcast: The Instance #90: “Get the drummers stool!”
In case you missed it, and judging by the quick sellout in early November, you probably did… The first issue of the World of Warcraft comic book is getting a 2nd lease on life. On January 4th, comic retailers who ordered the 2nd printing of issue #1 will be getting a few more of the precious book...
Saturday, Dec 15
Podcast: The Instance #89: “Print my dude!!!”
We interview Ed Fries, operator of FigurePrints.com - the hot new provider of 3D figurines made directly from your actual character in World Of Warcraft. Town Cryer Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.
Monday, Dec 10
Podcast: The Instance #88: “What’s in the box?”
Blizzard, who for those of you who are just tuning in for the first time, makes a little game called World Of Warcraft, is no longer a division of Vivendi Games. Yesterday, Vivendi and Activision announced their pending merger, which will result in the name “Activision Blizzard”.
Wednesday, Nov 28
Podcast: The Instance #87: Guild Bank Robbery
In case you missed it, Blizzard announced just before Thanksgiving that they’re holding a sweepstakes to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the launch of World Of Warcraft. During the week of December 3, they’ll give away 20 sets of four World of Warcraft action figures.
Tuesday, Nov 20
Podcast: The Instance #86: “Win Win Wow”
Patch 2.3 to World of Warcraft went live one week ago, and thus far, players are reporting a deep satisfaction like never before. William Shatner, Mr. T, and Verne Troyer are asking, in a series of national television commercials: ‘What’s Your Game?’ The answer, fool, is World of Warcraft!
Monday, Oct 29
Podcast: The Instance #84: “The Golden What Stick?”
For my composition class in college, I am writing a paper on video game addiction. Because you are the hosts of one of the most popular World of Warcraft podcasts ever, I would like to hear your thoughts on the matter. Do you believe a person can become addicted to a video game just like someone c...
Monday, Oct 8
Podcast: The Instance #82: The Cure For What Ales You
Blizzard this week produced a two-part exposé on the first hero-class to be introduced to World Of Warcraft. First, on the Death Knight Lore page, we learn how Orgrim Doomhammer’s mercy allowed Gul’dan to sew together the very first Death Knight - Teron Gorefiend - and all of the events tha...
Sunday, Sep 30
Podcast: The Instance #81: “2.2 is GLITCHY!”
Big News Of The Week WoW 2.2 Is Live, And Glitchy! Blizzard finally took the long-awaited patch 2.2 live in World Of Warcraft on Tuesday, and the reviews have been a mixed bag, err, sack. Long awaited features such as Battleground AFK reporting and video capture for Mac users are being lost in t...
