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Blizzard contest will hand out awards for best fan fiction
Blizzard’s first ever global writing contest has gone into effect, with the lucky winner getting invited to the company’s headquarters in California. If you’re feeling creative, write up a piece of...
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Warcraft Regional Finals to be held in Cologne June 26 – 28
Blizzard has confirmed details for the upcoming Warcraft Regional Finals at the KOMED MediaPark, Cologne. The event will be held from June 26 – 28 with two European and North American Arena teams...
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WoW movie being penned by Private Ryan writer
MTV’s scooped the writer of the World of Warcraft movie: it’s Robert Rodat, the screenwriter behind Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot. The info comes from a quote from Sam Raimi,...
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Blizzard’s Rob Pardo to give lecture at GDC
Think Services has announced that during GDC next month, Blizzard’s Rob Pardo will give a lecture on design philosophies. Titled “Making a Standard (and Trying to Stick to it!): Blizzard Design...
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Blizzard: WoW movie still happening despite slow process
Blizzard’s Vice president of creative development, Chris Metzen, has said the progress on the World of Warcraft movie has slowed, but it’s still happening. Speaking at Comic Con during a WoW...
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Metzen on WoW movie: “We are going to do it right”
Did you think we were going to get some crappy tie-in for World of Warcraft with Sam Raimi at the realm? This is Blizzard we’re talking about. Blizzard loremaster Chris Metzen just gave a status...
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Bowie’s son “hugely jealous” of Raimi directing WoW movie, could be first...
Duncan Jones, the director of movie Moon, says he’s “hugely jealous” of director Sam Raimi being the man in charge of the World of Warcraft movie. “I’m very cynical of the number of directors who say...
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Sam Raimi exits World of Warcraft film
Sam Raimi is no longer on board an upcoming World of Warcraft film, the director has revealed. “Actually, they don’t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had...
View ArticleThe Story of Warcraft recaps events leading up to Mists of Pandaria
Blizzard has launched a subsection on Battle.net which tells The Story of Warcraft from its beginnings in 1994 all the way up to Hour of Twilight – the last content released for World of Warcraft. The...
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Blizzard files complaint to acquire ‘Heroes of Warcraft’ domain
Blizzard has filed a complaint with the owner of web domain HeroesofWarcraft.com in order to acquire the URL for itself. It comes as the studio recently acquired WarcraftBattles.com, sparking chatter...
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Warcraft movie: Duncan Jones on board, Johnny Depp rumoured
Warcraft’s long-awaited film adaptation has been linked to two big names – actor Johnny Depp and Moon director Duncan Jones. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Jones, whose credits include...
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Warcraft movie: Raimi blames Blizzard’s “mismanagement” for delays
Sam Raimi has said Blizzard is at least partially to blame for his decision to give up directing the upcoming Warcraft movie. Although Raimi has previously credited the chance to work on Oz as the...
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Warcraft movie: Life of Pi Oscar winner signs as VFX director
Bill Westenhofer has signed on as visual effects director for the Warcraft movie, fresh from winning a 2013 Academy Award for Life of Pi. Blizzard executive Nick Carpenter announced the news via...
View ArticleWarcraft movie teaser trailer shown at Comic-Con
The World of Warcraft movie was teased during Comic-Com today thanks to a short trailer shown off by Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. The film directed by Duncan Jones, is scheduled to start...
View ArticleWarcraft movie: Legendary Pictures to start filming on January 14 – report
Legendary pictures’ Warcraft movie could start filming as early as January 13, 2014 in Vancouver, according to a Production Weekly report. The site tweeted that the studio has set up offices in the...
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Warcraft movie may star Colin Farrell, Paula Patton – rumour
Hollywood whispers suggest Legendary is chasing Colin Farrell and Paula Patton to play leading roles in the Warcraft movie adaptation. The rumour comes via Deadline, which reports Patton is in...
View ArticleWarcraft movie delayed into 2016
The Warcraft movie has been pushed back a couple of months from December 18, 2015 to March 11, 2016, according to a Variety report. It’s one of a couple of changes Universal and Legendary have made to...
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Hearthstone on consoles: “It’s not something we’re actually looking at right...
Blizzard doesn’t have any immediate plans to bring Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft to consoles. That’s according to Jason Chayes, production director on the game, who said the team has heard players...
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WildStar: warplots, death maps and 71 pages of patch notes – interview
We speak with Carbine’s executive producer Jeremy Gaffney about planning the long-term future of an MMO before it’s even been released. Carbine and NCsoft will publish WildStar in June – a new sci-fi...
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Warcraft movie post production may take 20 months
Warcraft, the Duncan Jones-directed movie based on the family of Blizzard games related to World of Warcraft, is going to need almost two years in post-production, apparently. Jones tweeted recently...
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