WoW Moviewatch: Ulduar: The Movie 2/3

Atraira has released the second installment of Ulduar: The Movie. Like the first episode, Ulduar: The Movie 2/3 features a sprawling series of fights. Each moment illustrates a fundamental experience in Ulduar.
What I enjoy most about Atraira’s series is that these movies do such a wonderful job conveying the vital themes and core of Ulduar [...]

Grunty the Murloc Marine arrives for DirecTV viewers

Memories of BlizzCon have started to fade over the last month, but today another reminder of the event pops up. If you watched it via DirectTV you should shortly be receiving an email letting you know that soon you too can have a Murloc Marine shadowing your character’s every step. The email comes with a [...]

WoW Moviewatch: SI:7 Episode 1

Before you read on, please note that there are spoilers in this review.
Tipster Thomas hooked me up to SI:7 Episode 1, the first installment in a story-based series by Kakashisan. The basic plot is a pretty good idea. After the Wrathgate debacle, a group of Forsaken rebels must plan another method for removing Horde influence [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Emergency Kindergarten – Lesson 1, Shapes and Colors

I want to be careful about how many videos we feature which parody or highlight other players in negative ways. However, Emergency Kindergarten – Lesson 1, Shapes and Colors was obviously created by Fyreuni with such skill, and obvious affection for its audience, that I couldn’t help but feature it today. I don’t think the [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Warcraft Mountain Dew Spec Commercial

The Warcraft Mountain Dew Spec Commercial was Ian Beckman’s entry into the BlizzCon 2009 machinima contest. According to Ian, he’d secretly hoped that the Mountain Dew folks would see the commercial and think “Holy crap! We love this idea! Let’s make it a commercial!” That didn’t happen, but the video’s still pretty awesome.
It’s pretty short, [...]

Breakfast Topic: Which NPCs cause a double take?

You have to hand it to Blizzard. They have a way with pop culture references and inside jokes. One of the methods that developers use to express their sense of humour is in their naming of the various NPCs in the game.
For instance, the two Triumphant Armor vendors located outside Crusader’s Coliseum. Champion Isimode (which [...]

New Shaman totems in the expansion

Good news from Kisirani for those who like a little variety in their Shaman classes — she confirms that Dwarf Shaman will indeed get brand new totems to throw down rather than the Draenei or Tauren models in Cataclysm, and hints that all of the Shaman races, past and future, will get a little differentiation [...]