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WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , PvP , BlizzCon , Arena After three straight heartbreaking losses against American team Selective Queuers, Worldwide Invitational champions Council of Mages bowed out from the tournament today leaving only three teams to battle it out for the prestigious -- and kingly -- prize of $75,000. The Korean team of Hyoga, Snowstorm, and Student, considered by many...
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Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Blizzard Entertainment has chosen Shanghai as the host city for the 2009 Worldwide Invitational, reports qq.com quoting an unnamed insider. The event may exceed 30,000 participants, said the report. Paris played host to the 2008 invitational in June.
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WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Filed under: Events , Fan stuff , News items , Expansions , Contests , Wrath of the Lich King , Worldwide Invitational This Friday and Saturday, Worldofwar.net will be holding two "level 1 character" race events on as-yet undisclosed U.S. servers. 5 Worldwide Invitational cards, entitling the bearer to a Wrath of the Lich King beta key and a Tyrael pet , will be awarded to the winners. The character...
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WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Instances , Expansions , Wrath of the Lich King , Worldwide Invitational From the 2008 Worldwide Invitational , we learned of a new way that we'll all be grinding faction reputation come the expansion. Namely, you will be able to become a faction's Champion. This is not a permanent change, and you are not stuck with only one faction, Instead, you simply put on the...
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WarCry Network (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
The latest edition of BlizzCast is now available. This edition specifically deals with the recent Worldwide Invitational and a D3 development interview with Jay Wilson. Grab the link...
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Warcraft Videos (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
BlizzCast Episode 5 Now Available More In this special Worldwide Invitational wrapup edition of BlizzCast, we briefly recap some of the events at the recent WWI in Paris, and then move… Read More…
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World of Warcraft Vault (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
In this special Worldwide Invitational wrapup edition of BlizzCast, we briefly recap some of the events at the recent WWI in Paris, and then move...
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TheTechLounge (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
"Having spent considerable time with the Terran and Protoss at BlizzCon last year -- and no access to the Zerg at Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational -- I thought it might be fun to take out my old favorite class for a spin. As you might expect, there was a wait, one that gave me ample opportunity to watch the Zerg in action. Most noticeable was the lovely look of the Creep, the purplish goo that the...
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WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Filed under: Fan stuff , Contests , Wrath of the Lich King Well, sort of. Our favorite wiki celebrates the recently concluded Olympics in Beijing by hosting a Worldwide Invitational card giveaway (which has a Beta key and Tyrael pet) called the WoWlympics which ends today at 11:00pm UTC . The contest is fairly simple -- visit their site and look for clues that jump from one page to the other. It's...
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Warcraft Videos (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
"Waow" comic published, apparently without Blizzard’s permission More Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Comics, Worldwide Invitational Blogger DeSlisser was in Paris recently when he came upon a strange sight in a store: A comic book called “WaoW” that covered the journey of a newb in the world of “Razemoth” as he looks for [...]
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WarCry Network (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
It's time for our second Wrath of the Lich King Beta Contest - this time, we have 20 Paris Worldwide Invitational '08 cards to give out, for both an eventual WotLK beta key plus the rare mini-Tyrael in-game pet! This contest will end at 12:00 PM EDT on Monday, August 18th.
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WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , WoW Social Conventions , Blizzard , Expansions , BlizzCon , Wrath of the Lich King , Worldwide Invitational This one's been flying under our radar for a while, but I'm not sure why -- I happen to be one of the affected. Still, while everyone was spending the past few days worrying about tickets for this year's BlizzCon, a whole other set of folks were worrying about...
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WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
Filed under: Blizzard , Contests , Worldwide Invitational If you're not completely holed up in a cave somewhere, you're probably aware that some big sports event called the Olympics is happening in August. Of course, August also marks the start of a new season for our friends over at WoW Radio , who are holding a contest to celebrate their onslaught of shows. In keeping with the Olympics, WoW Radio...
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Warcraft Videos (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
You can now of some of the developer panels from the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational. Visit our WWI Videos page to see Blizzard developers discuss the evolving design process of StarCraft II, the world lore and environment of Diablo III, and the present and future of the classes in World of Warcraft.
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WarCry Network (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Blizzard has released several videos from the World of Warcraft Worldwide Invitational held recently. Grab the links after the jump.