Sunday
Jun162013
Dropping Bombs!
5.4 bombs are dropping left and right, Diablo 3 is coming to xbox and how would you like to write for Blizzpro? Welcome to Blizzpro's Twizzcast!
This week we start off with a little bit of our week in gaming! Reb has been hot and heavy in Diablo 3 and Hota suffers the wrath for being a lowbie! Twizz has finally gotten his monk to level 90 and every one of his toons has a full mailbox of lucky rabbits feet and various rabbit type critters of Azeroth? Why, you'll see ;-)
WoW Blue Post News:
Patch 5.4 adds Virtual Realms, which will essentially merge lower population realms. This will allow you to keep playing on your current realm, but do arenas, raids, and dungeons with people in your realm group, as well as use a merged Auction House and trade with other players in your realm group.
Patch 5.4 also adds Proving Grounds, with four different difficulty levels for trials: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Endless. Endless difficulty matches you up against enemies of constantly increasing difficulty.
A new Darkmoon boss will make an appearance, a giant Dire Wolf. He appears to drop a pet, a mount, and a transmog weapon.
A new pet battle tournament is coming to the Timeless Isle.
The chance for awarding loot from kills or bonus rolls has been increased for Mogu'shan Vaults, Heart of Fear, Terrace of Endless Spring, and Throne of Thunder on Raid Finder difficulty.
The chance for awarding loot from using a bonus roll has been increased for Throne of Thunder on Normal difficulty.
Players who obtain a realm-best time in a Challenge Mode dungeon will receive a temporary title specific to each dungeon which will persist for as long as a player retains the top time on the realm. They will also receive a Feat of Strength.
All permanent item enhancements provided by Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, and various vendors and quests are now able to be applied to items of any level. The effects of these enchantments will be scaled down to the level of the player using the item.
We take a look at the Mage and Warlock T16 set and give our thoughts on the appearance.
We also take a look at the new Sha of Pride and Corrupted Garrosh models!
Angry Orc is trying to get a mount in this weeks diary entry! Unfortunately he goes to the goblins and gets a little roughed up along the way!
BlizzPro News:
Do you have what it takes to be a writer for BlizzPro? The BlizzPro team is currently seeking people to write about various Blizzard related topics. Eldorian has set up an introductory questionnaire that can be filled out and submitted quickly and easily. The entire article and your path to becoming part of the BlizzPro team starts right HERE.
Diablo 3 News:
It's been announced that Diablo 3 will be coming to the XboX 360 Platform on September 3rd! Not only that, if you pre-order it, you can get some wicked in-game perks! A list of all the perks can be found HERE! It also appears that you get a little bit more bang for your buck if you have the PS3 pre-ordered, but in the end, Diablo 3 is 100% awesomesauce no matter what you get in the way of perks!
Also, during the E3 conference, there was a collage on the screen that had various game titles coming to the Playstation Network. SMACK DAB in the middle of this collage was the original Diablo! Was it just there to take up space? Could we actually see it coming to PSN? Take a look at the picture and judge for yourself right HERE!
Starcraft 2 News:
The First WCS Season Champion has been crowned ladies and gentlemen!
The WCS Season One has come to an end and not a single foreigner made it to the round of 8.
We did almost see the Korean regional final rematch between Innovation and Soulkey, but sOs was able to come back and win game 5 to take the semifinals away from Soulkey.
People were unsure of how Innovation would fare after being the clear favorite in the Korean finals only to go up 3-0 and then lose 4 straight games to lose the finals, but his only challenge was against the winningest player in StarCraft 2 history MvP in the semi finals. Innovation went down 2-1 and then won the next 2 to win the best of 5 to face sOs in the finals where he completely dominated with his hellfire bat drops and took home $40,000 and the WCS Season One champion by beating sOs 4-0.
Season 2 is starting to gear up as the challenger leagues are finishing soon to see who qualifies for the Season 2 Premier league.
More on this BIG WIN can be found HERE!
Blizzard is looking for Battle.net Desktop Client BETA TESTERS!
You read it right! We talk about some of the features of the new desktop client and let you know exactly how you can try to get in on some of the beta testing:
Blizzard wrote:
"If you’d like to help us with the testing, head to your Battle.net Beta Profile and opt in to at least one of the game universe beta tests (if you haven’t done so already). We’ll be inviting players to the beta test in waves—if you’re selected, your Battle.net account will be flagged automatically and you’ll receive an email with additional details."
The entire article with pictures and information can be found right HERE. So what are you waiting for? GO SIGN UP!
Hearthstone News:
Hota covers an article by Zenstyle that talks about the Shadowstep card and it's use and functionality in game! The article itself is well written but discussion broke out that if you're not a CCG or TCG player, it's hard to wrap your mind around what this game is doing and how to play it. The pictures and article will give you a great idea of how it's shaping up and both can be found HERE.
Lastly, BlizzPro is teaming up with ONOG and SteelSeries and is putting together a Barcraft event in Kansas City!!!! This will be an event of epic proportions! In case you're not 100% sure what I'm talking about, let me break it down for you:
You go to a bar....you drink and hang out....while they're playing Starcraft tournaments.....on the TV's! I can't think of a more awesome hive of geek and epicness (Obi-Wan won't mind if I tweak his phrase a little bit).
Here is a snip-it from the article which gives some of the details:
"MLG is holding their Spring Championship the final weekend of June and BlizzPro has teamed up with One Nation of Gamers and SteelSeries to help sponsor a barcraft in Kansas City, MO on June 30 starting at 1:00 PM CST. The venue will be at Snow & Co. at 1815 Wyandotte St. in downtown Kansas City. Snow & Co. is an awesome little venue that has a couple TV screens and a projector and they serve these awesome frozen cocktails. They have held Barcrafts in the past and love hosting us."
The entire article and street map for the event can be found.....that's right......right HERE!
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