Torghast First Look in Patch 9.1 – New Negative Torments, Score Streak Bar, Boss on Floor 5

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Buy Season 4 Raid Weapons and Trinkets Off a Vendor in Patch 9.2.5 – Deterministic Raid Loot?

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Activision Shareholders Against Board of Directors on Misconduct Report

In a rare move against the wishes of the Board of Directors, shareholders voted in favor of a proposal requiring Activision Blizzard to prepare a public annual report quantifying their efforts to prevent abuse, harassment, and discrimination of employe…

Warcraft Logs Experimenting with External Buff Caps for Rankings in Season 4

For Shadowlands Season 4, Warcraft Logs will be experimenting with external buff caps, which will invalidate parses if the cap is exceeded.External Buffs such as Power Infusion, Fae Guardians, Blessing of Summer, and Kindred Affinity have been controve…

When Will The Burning Crusade Pre-Patch Release on Classic Anniversary Servers?

With the announcement of Naxxramas coming to Classic Anniversary servers on October 2nd, players are beginning to speculate about when The Burning Crusade will release!

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BlizzCon 2009 Coverage Roundup

We’ve been collecting coverage of this past weekend’s BlizzCon 2009 from around the Web, and have compiled a small fraction of it here for you to catch up on anything you may have missed, or just read more about your favorites. Whether you’re interested in hands-on write-ups of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, detailed information about Diablo III’s monk class, news from StarCraft II’s panels, a peek into the future of Battle.net, scads of pictures from the costume contest, or anything else that emerged from BlizzCon, take a look at the links below.

BlizzCon General Coverage

• GameSetWatch
• Game Videos
• IGN PC: BlizzCon 2009 Coverage
• Kotaku: The Show So Far
• Joystiq: Ozzy Osbourne Closes Show Down
• GameSpy
• Joystiq: Day One Round-up
• IGN PC: Ozzy Osbourne Interview
• Slashdot
• GameSpot
• Kotaku: Stuff You Can Buy at BlizzCon
• 1UP
• IGN PC: BlizzCon Keynote Full of Surprises

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

• IGN PC: Cataclysm Hands-on
• Kotaku: The Lands Beyond the Cataclysm
• Kotaku: Hands-on With Cataclysm’s Goblins and Worgen
• Wired
• Eurogamer
• Joystiq
• GameSpot: Cataclysm Hands-on
  
• GameSpot: World of Warcraft Panel Sees Cataclysmic Changes
• GameSpy: Cataclysm Preview Panel Report
• GameSpy: Dungeons and Raids Galore
• GameSpy: Hands-on with World of Warcraft’s Worgen Race
• WarCry: Cataclysm Part 1: Old Villains, New Races
• WarCry: Cataclysm Part 2: The World Reshaped
• WarCry: Cataclysm Part 3: Dungeons With Dragons

Diablo III

• GameSpy: Details on Diablo III’s Monk
• GameSpot: Video: BlizzCon 09 Interview
• WarCry: Hands on with Diablo III’s Monk
• GameSpy
• Voodoo Extreme
• IGN PC: Diablo III Monk Hands-on
• IGN PC: Diablo III Q&A
• Kotaku
• GameTrailers: Video Interview
• Destructoid

StarCraft II

• IGN PC
• Gamasutra
• Joystiq: BSG’s Tricia Helfer to voice StarCraft II’s Kerrigan
• Kotaku: Tricia Helfer is StarCraft II’s Kerrigan
• Kotaku: Keeping Things Fresh in the StarCraft II Expansions
• Joystiq: StarCraft II Map Editor Flexibility
• Gamasutra: StarCraft II will Allow Modders to Sell Custom Maps
• Shacknews

Battle.net

• IGN PC
• WarCry
• Kotaku
• GameSpy
• Shacknews
• Joystiq
• Voodoo Extreme