Posts with tag all-things-azeroth
All Things Azeroth wants your audio
Dec 2nd, 2008
Our good friend Medros over at the All Things Azeroth podcast has posted a contest over on the site asking for some Warcraft-related audio content. He's looking for the best bit of audio drama, podcast promo, or simply audio comments that you can come up with, and he'll choose the best one by December 20th. Not only will he play the winners on the show, but the grand prize gets a Papa Hummel's Old Fashioned Pet Biscuit (handmade by Papa Hummel himself, as I always say), and two second prizes will pick up what is surely a spectacular Wrath poster and bookmark.I love hearing great audio production -- would be awesome to see some really good audio drama come out of this. If you've got an idea, get started on it now: Medros is asking for emailed entries no later than December 20th. Can't wait to hear the results.
Analysis / Opinion, Podcasting, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Contests
The rise, fall, and rise again of the WotLK Information Wiki
Jun 25th, 2008
This past Monday, June 23, The WotLK Information Wiki relaunched on a new web host after having been pulled down by a Cease and Desist order from Blizzard. Darkside, one of the admins for the WotLK Information Wiki, gave an interview to Medros over at All Things Azeroth to explain what happened. The interview was conducted as part of Medros' podcast Episode 53. Some highlights from the interview include:- Most of the information that the alpha wiki provides is a result of file and image extraction from Blizzard's publically-available alpha client.
- The alpha client files contain all the information on the spells, creatures and environments to be tested and new things are added or subtracted each time the alpha is patched.
- The alpha wiki folks set up a "sandbox" where they could fly through the new locations and spawn creatures for screenshots.
- A small portion of the WotLK info -- some screenshots, for example -- has come from Blizzard employees under non-disclosure agreements the identities of whom the alpha wiki admins protect.
- Blizzard, Vivendi, and Activision IP addresses had visited the wiki frequently since it began.
- The Cease and Desist order from Blizzard arrived last Friday, June 20. Over the weekend the WotLK wiki admins tried several ways to appease the lawyers and eventually settled on moving to a new web host.
- The wiki's readership is approximately 200,000 page views per day.
[Thanks, Matticus and uber.]
Analysis / Opinion, News items, Expansions, Interviews, Wrath of the Lich King
Arena season 4 over, season 5 to begin December 17th
Debuff limit removed
Chinese MMO accused of stealing art from World of Warcraft, others
Realms up after extended maintenance
Downtime extended to 1 O'Clock PST
Know Your Lore: Dalaran
Totem Talk: Wrath faction gear for Shamans
Scattered Shots: Normal dungeon gear for Hunters in Wrath of the Lich King
The Queue: Shields, forums, and more on raid difficulty
Kalu'ak reputation rewards
