Category: World of Warcraft News

Amazon has a new entry for a graphic novel based on the Warcraft movie that will be available for purchase beginning on June 7th. The story is penned by Paul Cornell based on a story by Blizzard’s Chris Metzen. Mat Broome is the illustrator. At this time, the hardcover graphic novel is selling for $24.99 on Amazon and is available for preorder.

The latest World of Warcraft Legion alpha build has been released that includes the addition of the final Warlock spec and the news that world questing has been enabled. According to dev posting, world quests take a “major role in endgame content” during the expansion and feature, among other interesting components, world PvP objectives.

With the Warcraft movie a couple months away in North America and Legion set to arrive in September, Blizzard is helping players “BE PREPARED” with today’s release of the new novel, Illidan, penned by William King.

A lot of talk has been swirling around the MMO-niverse over the past week with Blizzard’s legal action against a private World of Warcraft server that has seen many are clamoring for “official” vanilla WoW servers by way of online petitions, debates on forums and editorials by games media. Fans of vanilla WoW wish to return to what they believe is the ‘best of’ the game while Blizzard prefers to progress the game in its current state.

The Warcraft movie is stoking the fires of excitement for next month’s EU release (June for NA) with several new posters that feature some of the major players. Today’s posters include Blackhand, Lady Taria, Ogrim Doomhammer and King Llane.

Blizzard’s international law firms have sent notification to OVH, a local French server host, and to those who administrate Nostralrius, a World of Warcraft private server, that documents are being prepared for legal proceedings if the server is not shut down. As a result, the administrators of the private server have informed their players that Nostalrius Begins PvP, Nostalrius Begins PvE & Nostalrius TBC will all be shuttered on April 10th.

Urban artists representing a group called ARTtitude took to the streets of London to create some amazing World of Warcraft-themed murals that feature the iconic Night Elf race. The murals are a temporary (and awesome!) addition to the Shoreditch neighborhood but will only be available until April 6th.

A new version of the World of Warcraft Legion alpha has been deployed that includes the Azsuna zone, significant redesigns of several class talents, artifact traits, Order Hall campaigns and much more.

Blizzard is looking to engage young readers with a new book series called “World of Warcraft Traveler”. The series is aimed at kids ages 8-12 and features a cast of young characters exploring Azeroth and the mysteries it embodies. Artists involved in the project include Samwise Didier and Greg Weisman as well as cover art by Stephane Belin. Check out the video below to learn more!

While the World of Warcraft: Legion alpha — well, technically it’s still called that, though the servers say beta but that’s just nitpicking — has introduced testers to a lot of new features, zones, the Demon Hunter and some of the lore behind the expansion, those things pale in comparison to the new way of playing that most will encounter both in PvE and in PvP.