A few things about this Warcraft-flavored PC casemod, seen over on this Chinese website. First: it’s awesome. Warcraft art is faithfully recreated, and as you can see, there’s a nice Horde montage on one side, Alliance on the other, and the Dark Portal sitting right there in front. Second: it’s probably pretty old — most of that art is from the game’s original release four years ago.

So it’s probably not exactly the latest and greatest in Warcraft PC designs (though it might be a little later than the ghost train pirate art). But still, it looks great. And I definitely wouldn’t mind wandering around Azeroth on that rather than my current gigantic black tower of a PC.

Update: Turns out the case is for sale. That is, if you want to spend $299 on a case.

[via Technabob]

Filed under: Horde, Alliance, Human, Orcs, Mage, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, NPCs, Galleries

Chinese Warcraft casemod is awesome originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MMOsite.com has nabbed some pictures of the return to the Chinese World of Warcraft. As you know if you’ve been paying attention, the game has been offline over there for a few months now, but the game just recently got approved to go back online, and so they’re in the middle of a “partial relaunch” (which I believe is taking the form of a closed beta) and the servers are crowding up again. As you can see, there’s a stampede (much like ours) going on in Thunder Bluff — looks like players are happy to be online again.

They also have some comparison images of the censorship found over there. Anything with skulls or bones on it is out, and the offending images have been replaced with piles of dirt and bags and debris. Blood appears as black oil rather than red liquid, and even player corpses are out. As you can see, everywhere players die, there are instead little graves and tombstones around. Very interesting. No idea if this actually “helps” in China (or what the point of the censorship is — seems as though it’s a cultural thing, more like it’s a respect for death and dead bodies rather than worrying about whether people will be disturbed by the mention of violence), but of course the government over there has final say on what goes into the game, and apparently this is what they approved. Hopefully Chinese players will be headed back to Northrend before long.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Leveling

Chinese WoW partial relaunch pics, comparison shots of censorship originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

The video embedded in today’s edition of The Queue isn’t a silly music video this time around, I’m afraid. No funny business today. Today is for game faces. Today is for serious business. Today is for italic letters.

Sashay asked…

“I have found a glitch that has caused many people to have their hearts broken.

This glitch is the “underground” mining technique that people use so they will not be attacked by enemies. Does this happen because they found a “Under Stormwind” glitch somewhere in Northrend? Maybe they put their toon in the tourney castle before it was built and now they are under everything?”

Continue reading The Queue: Exploits and dirty cheats

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Death Knight, The Queue

The Queue: Exploits and dirty cheats originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: News items, Arena

Arena Season 6 to end soon originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After the good Baron Soosdon worked with Olibith on Never Stay Tuned 4, he continued to chase an interesting idea. Warriors Dance is the result of that idea. According to the Baron’s description of Warriors Dance, the dance club Shortchange was created after the liberation of the gnomish people from the traitorous Alliance. However, things get a little different by the end of opening night.

Baron Soosdon has created another entertaining, fun location, though this one is wildly different from the paradise he put together for Happy Up Here. I think if the Shortchange were an actual, functioning dance space is Azeroth, you could probably find dozens of Alliance jostling to get in.

I continue to be amazed at how well Soosdon pieces his musical choice together with the video he puts on screen. The rhythm, words, and general vibe of the music matches the thriving, vibrant graphics. Ultimately, this video was awesome, and is going to be one I replay frequently.

In case the embedded video doesn’t work out for you, you can check out a few different streams on the Baron’s blog.

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Moviewatch

WoW Moviewatch: Warriors Dance originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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