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[UPDATE - now with video, after the break]

BlizzCon brings out the strangest, coolest, and most insanely detailed costumes this side of Outland, and we were front and center at last night's costume contest, hosted by comedian Jay Mohr. He appeared to have taken notes from Jamie Kennedy's appearance at E3, and was actually funny instead of stupid.

Check out the gallery down below for the highlights, and be sure to take a look at the winning Warlock costume. The girl who designed it was patient enough to pose for a billion photos afterwards with her heavy (and lighted!) helmet, and as far as we know she wore it all night. We even saw her waiting in line for the bus with those wings still on. Most entries were from WoW, but there were a couple of nods to other Blizzard games, including a Terran Ghost from Starcraft.

Gallery: BlizzCon Costumes

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JoystiqWorld of Warcraft players + BlizzCon = costumes originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We attended a press conference at BlizzCon this morning that was held far too early for people who had been out all night ogling people in World of Warcraft contests. In attendance were J. Allen Brack, senior producer for WoW, Rob Pardo, the Senior VP of Game Design for Blizzard, and Frank Pearce, Executive VP of Product Development at Blizzard.

One big tidbit that they dropped was the fact that The Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack may require you to have the Burning Crusade as well. Blizzard isn't sure if this will require an additional purchase, or if they will bundle it in at no extra cost. When asked how retailers might react to this, no one had any idea. If you're Joe Retailer and selling copies of Burning Crusade pretty well, will you want to put something on the shelf that will cannibalize those sales, or will you just stop carrying the older title altogether?

Another interesting fact is that if you pick up say, the latest expansion pack a couple of years from now, when there are three are four out, will you have to go back and buy the others? That could get potentially very expensive for players who have already shelled out for the base game and are paying $14.95 a month. What are we, made out of gold? We'll follow this as it develops.

JoystiqBlizzCon breaking news: Wrath of the Lich King may require Burning Crusade originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sister-site WoW Insider really has all the details on patch 2.1 for World of Warcraft. The newest patch opens up the Black Temple, along with a slew of other content, that tells the story of ... oh, who are we kidding? Do people even read the quests anymore? By level 60 isn't it just standard ops to find question mark NPC, accept, do the quest (kill, collect or escort), hand in, get phat lootz, rinse and repeat? Sure, it's been the same thing for 70 levels, the same raids over and over again, but can we stop? Can anybody stop?

If you haven't taken your first hit of WoW -- be happy. If you broke the habit -- be overjoyed. The rest of us are still licking the baby Murloc and just letting the drug course through our veins. How obsessed are WoW addicts? We haven't looked, but we're sure there's a thread on the WoW forums asking where patch 2.2 is already.

[Via WoWInsider]

JoystiqWoW patch 2.1 helps feed the habit originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 22 May 2007 18:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, this explains why Blizzard kept stalling on answering our distribution questions. Blizzard began very quietly offering World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade through digital distribution this week.

The offer is made every time you start up WoW, so it's not like players who decided to ignore the launch have that option anymore. The expansion costs $39.99 online, the same as in the the stores, preventing the need for pesky poisonous outdoor air to enter one's lungs.

The digital distribution question about WoW has been floating around since The Burning Crusade was announced. Guess it was nice for Blizzard to give the brick and mortar stores a chance before they totally cut them off and made their use in Burning Crusade distribution obsolete. Other than those who need the box to feel complete, what's the point of getting the Burning Crusade in a store now? Not to mention that this shows Blizzard will use a similar tactic in future expansions.

JoystiqWoW: Burning Crusade digital distribution originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blizzard's just-released Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft appears to have inspired customers (old and new) to return in droves. The screenshot above was taken moments ago. It demonstrates that the huddled masses, yearning to breathe digitally, are forming long lines at the borders to Azeroth. "Let us in," the wretched refuse cry!

JoystiqWorld waits for World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For those who just can't wait to get their hands on World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion, Gamestop will be holding at many locations a midnight launch on Jan. 16 at 12:01AM.

Certain stores are planning midnight events that will include "costume contests, card game tournaments, screen-shot character judging, and more! Events will vary by location, check with your local store for more information." Yes, please check before you show up all dressed up -- unless you're into that sort of thing.

[Thanks Joe]

JoystiqGamestop holding WoW: BC midnight launch originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Elizabeth Wachowski over at WoW Insider put together one of the more definitive pieces ever done on the useless classes in World of Warcraft. Scrounging together the best of the worst threads from the upcoming Burning Crusade expansion forums, Wachowski shows that every class is worthless for one reason or another, or another -- or another. She lists the reasons, with multiple hyperlinks. Anyone who's ever read or listened to complaints about classes in WoW will get a good giggle, or fume with rage; adding more reasons to why Warlocks are overpowered and why Mages are worthless because they're being out-DPSed by shadow priests.

Whatever Blizzard is doing with World of Warcraft, they're obviously on the right path. With seven million players currently paying $15 a month, that's a cool $1.26 billion going in the Ironforge vault every year. Burning Crusade launches on Jan 16 and we can't wait to see how Blizzard distributes the millions of copies necessary to satiate even 50 percent of players. Complaining about classes will be the last thing on WoW addict minds when they can't get their Burning Crusade fix at launch.

JoystiqWorld of Warcraft's list of useless classes originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blizzard's highly anticipated World of Warcrack Warcraft add-on The Burning Crusade finally gets a release date. It'll be hitting retail outlets on January 16th, 2007 ... just missing the holiday season by a few weeks, ouch. At least that'll make for more family time together, since you won't be holed up in front of your computer grinding your way up to level 70.

"While World of Warcraft has continued to grow rapidly along with its player population, The Burning Crusade will represent our single largest addition of new game content and new features to date," said Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "With this expansion, we're looking forward to offering the same level of quality that players have experienced in World of Warcraft so far, and we'll continue balancing and play-testing up until launch to ensure that The Burning Crusade achieves that goal."

You WoWers out there had better party hard through New Years, because you'll be getting a brand-spanking new timesink two weeks later. You can also go for the collector's edition which sports the expansion on both CD-ROM and DVD, the Art of the Burning Crusade coffee table book, *pauses for breath* an exclusive in-game pet, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a World of Warcraft Trading Card Game starter deck and exclusive cards, a map of Outland mouse pad, and the official soundtrack CD *pant, pant -- whew*. That is, if you really want to immerse yourself in it. The wheelbarrow to carry all that stuff home is optional.

Trading Card Game starter deck, FTW!

JoystiqBlizzard's World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade to drop January 16 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Whether a new video showing environments and mobs from World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is authentic or an elaborate mod is up for debate. If it is real than somebody has been naughty and deserves a spanking. A spanking and a hug from all the World of Warcraft players clamoring for more information and footage regarding the upcoming Burning Crusade expansion.

A user created video on GameTrailers apparently reveals environments and mobs from the Burning Crusade's Outlands. The video explains that the footage was captured by placing the Burning Crusade code onto a private server . There are no NPCs or other bells and whistles in the video because it's not on a Blizzard server.

So if you feel like being naughty, go take a look. We promise not to tell.

[Thanks Brent]

JoystiqWorld of Warcraft: Burning Crusade footage leak originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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China to increase monitoring of Internet cafes
Young Chinese gamers won't have to worry about Fel Orcs, Forest Trolls, and Warp Stalkers when playing the Burning Crusade, so much as they will the newly appointed security guards patrolling the aisles at their local Internet cafe. It's campaign time again in China, and from July 1 through the end of September, the Ministry of Culture will be stepping up efforts to keep minors out of the nation's cyber cafes. In Beijing alone, 107 additional security guards, as well as newly trained middle school teachers will be supervising 71 such hangouts. Talk about a cruel summer.

JoystiqMore chaperones in China's Internet cafes originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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