Yes, Blizzard has announced that they are to sell numerous branded board games inspired by their very own World of Warcraft creation.  Debuting last February 12 in the Toy Fair launched in the Big Apple (New York City), Monopoly: World of Warcraft and Risk: Starcraft made originally by USAopoly, are soon to hit the stores. These board games would definitely add up to the million of collectibles being kept by thousands to millions of World of Warcraft and Starcraft fanatics all over the world. This plan and launch are well supported by Blizzard Entertainment who also feels flattered that their big hit franchises have been chosen to bring forth joy, fun and magic in the world of children and online game buffs alike.

The amazing thing about the creation of such toys is that the fans get to actually be part of their production. How? Listen to this. The company producing the toys, alongside support coming from the Blizzard Entertainment team, is holding a poll via Facebook. Such poll gives children and online or video game fanatics to actually vote for the design that they like best and even choose which among the numerous dungeons, dragons and other World of Warcraft and Starcraft characters you would actually want to be part of the Monopoly game.

It has been revealed that such US Monopoly: World of Warcraft would be available this coming May 2012, in time for the pre – planned launched of its latest franchise installement: Mist of Pandaria. For only $39.95 fans can complete their WoW collectibles and children can actually play and use their own strategy to conquer one particular realm to another. Also, RISK: Starcraft would be hitting stores alongside WoW with a starting price tag of $49.45. United Kingdom releases for such toys have not yet being announced. So, try to save as much as school allowances that you can get and spend your summer with these amazing fun filled challenging magical toys!

Blizzard Entertainment has not only hit the market to sell their online games to numerous fanatics but they have come forward to serve the community in lieu with their humanitarian duty through a World of Warcraft charity auction. Yes, all the swords, character figures and gruesome setting were curbed into a saleable product that not only completed the tangible collection of many WoW fanatics but they have turned into actual cash – shelling – saving children’s lives possession.

The company sold 2,000 blade servers that they used to host their smashing hit fantasy realm of World of Warcraft to raise money for the St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital. The mentioned beneficiary is an actual pediatric hospital in Memphis which specializes in cancer treatment and other life – threatening diseases in children. Such auction run for the whole month of January and was hosted in eBay.

The World of Warcraft blade servers were each fitted in a transparent case that was etched with a WoW logo and a plaque filled with signatures of almost all of the leading online game’s development team. World of Warcraft realms have virtual neighborhoods that give the players the opportunity to create new relationships that include friendships and friendly rivalries with good memories tagging along.  Hence, this collectible was sold to the public bearing in mind that numerous WoW fans get too attached to their particular WoW realm as players can only choose one realm that contains limited number of characters. Through such auction, the fans actually got to experience the landscape that is swarmed with hundreds to thousands of dwarfs, wizards, orcs and relieving the fantasy all over again.

Players not only get to pay their well earned money in getting these chips and disks that furnished their fantasy online game lives but the winners of each of the biddings definitely got the chance to grab a small monument filled with collective experiences. Not to mention, they get be part of supporting an institution’s goal of helping children from the US and around the world. With this bold move, Blizzard Entertainment is hoping that the numerous negative stereotypes of adults to online games would soon be extinguished and end with a single thought: everything created in this world is set to do good and for the greater good of many.

A group of fans have started their very own World of Warcraft Ironman Challenge. This is to actually crown the best amongst the self proclaiming top, bad ass and best World of Warcraft gamer of the century. Such challenge brings forth to the numerous WoW fanatics an experience that they would never forget as they play their favorite game online. To actually deem such challenge with seriousness and authenticity, rules have been set out through the official forum by a troll priest from the Moonglade (EU) guild Twisted Tusks with a user name Jahjin.

This has kept WoW fans excited as the Ironman Challenge is not something that players with weakened knees and heart would undertake. As early as now, the group shares to their co – World of Warcraft fans that the rules are quite brutal which makes this a very difficult level type of WoW game. How brutal? You dare ask? Well, some rules are plain brutal as death simply means death. If you die in the game, then you are out for good and begging for a second chance with bended knees and tears on your face would do you no good; except pull your credibility down while raising the bar of humiliation within your guild or WoW community. But then again, there are those less vicious routes for players who seem to be canny and try to enjoy the game while actually surviving it. These players choose the Player Versus Environment (PvE) realm mode just to stay away from nonsense deaths caused by player collision mode. However, even this course does not give a sweet fruit basket as a reward while gamers play the game. In fact, throughout the challenge, the players are not allowed to utilize their talent points which include the ability to choose your specialization. If you are built to be tough for such challenge then surely, you’ll have a blast of experience while playing your favorite Blizzard Entertainment game.

Even the people from Blizzard Entertainment are hollering their supports through the forum and encouraging the players to be their best when embarking the realm of the Ironman Challenge. The company itself is not an amateur when it comes to such challenges as Diablo and Diablo II also featured such brutal and rough hard mode challenges to its fans. Not to mention, they get a bit flattered by such occasion as fans are truly dedicated to their creation to even bother putting up such challenge. Definitely, with the Ironman Challenge, WoW is so loved by the fans and Blizzard Entertainment strives hard to return the favor. If you want to take on the Ironman Challenge, check out the official World of Warcraft forums for more information on its rules and frequently asked questions. Be the first to take on the Ironman Challenge and be the best WoW player on the planet!

With the recent release of patch 4.3.2, improvements have been vividly noticed by avid and analyst players alike. First stop is the newly improved and fixed need rewards that keep the characters and their master players on good spirits as they go through raid finder bosses. No damage would definitely befall on your way as vengeance is scrapped out from being activated by other gamers. The attack power of Hawk Aspect is quite exceptional in this patch as it brings forth additional thirty five percent in the game. The Deterrence, on the other hand, brings you a thirty percent damage once activated. For the Arcane Shot, the multi used and famously comforting Lock and Load ability is now not beneficial to the player. More Fireball damage has been reduced with Mages giving a less six percent. With Paladins in the field experiencing a five percent increase, there is now a forty percent base manna tagging along Holy Radiance. Lastly, with Rogues, the Adrenaline Rush will no longer get to activate global cool down. These, ladies and gentlemen, are few of the changes seen in the characters of the game. Blizzard is only starting and keeps the ball rolling for more developments in the patch. So, read along.

As for the actual settings and battles seen in dungeons and raids, there are few notable improvements. Players can get to experience and form same – fraction raids along with other players. Typos fixes in the Dungeon Journal Entries for Dragon Soul have been established as well. The sad part to this is that the gamers can no longer be able to win a certain item all over again.

Other changes that were seen in the game involve: the Vials of Shadows damage which has been totally reduced to a third and activation of Maw of the Dragonlord is achievable through the use of the Holy Word: Sanctuary Healing.

With these amazing improvements in the latest patch, WoW creators are definitely proving that they too can hug the effects of change for the betterment of their pre – loved game and to cater the needs and cravings of their avid gamer fans. Now, can you tell if WoW did lose its MMORPG crown?

An avid WoW player gets to enjoy that little audio “bling” or visual “You Did It!” cues whenever they enter the great adventure that the franchise has in store for them. According to the game fanatics, the rewards or achievements bring forth happiness not only to their characters but also to themselves. Such rewards have kept them hooked in conquering a particular task knowing that when you surpass such ordeal you’ll get something great in the end. Take this as your weekly wage after going through that mountain tall weekly load of tasks on your desk. Such sweet success, isn’t it? For an avid WoW fun this not simply a sweet or bring home the bacon in the Super Bowl kind of win, rather this is the most obsessive euphoric feeling that they get after traversing numerous adventures and strategically taking down enemies.

WoW has first introduced the achievement or reward system prior to the release of their Wrath of the Lich King installment. In fact, it started out with a simple added skill points to the players to which they get either to unravel new character skins or a content of the plot. The rewards keep the ball rolling since then and have developed into more and more cutting edge as each level of the game gets more and more dangerous, as well as difficult to complete. As of today, WoW holds 1401 Achievements in their franchise that players are starting to develop the sickness of Obsessive Compulsive Disease (OCD) in order to grab all of it.

The OCD fans are now invading the universe of WoW due to such rewards making them feel after playing the game for weeks and finally killing end – bosses in each and every installment of the game. Plus, this kind of psychological achievement not only boosts the characters’ status within the game against the other players but also boosts the self – esteem of the players as well which makes them think that they can truly achieve anything they want if and only if they work hard for it. Fans give out a two thumbs up for Blizzard Entertainment’s WoW achievement system but they are still asking for more exchangeable rewards that they can actually spend to level up their characters even more.

Clearly, this system has been ranked wonderfully by the OCD fans of the WoW universe. Hopefully, Blizzard would never ever have to let go such great self – esteem boosting and character development system. So, from the raving OCD fans and other players of the franchise, “Blizzard, You Did It!”.

Yes, this is truly a big year for Blizzard Entertainment that they have no more time to generate a post – year showoff success and pre – year newer game installments. The big characters behind the company thinks that a true game creator and production does not need a well equipped, planned and delivered showcasing or advertisement of games in order to sell them or draw its rating to the top most rank possible. Rather, game creators and producers alike should focus more on developing the actual game and making it more worth than what their advertisement would tell the public.

It has been quite dramatic to see in today’s market that most online games give out the best tease clips or preview cliffhangers to get the avid online game buffs hooked and later be disappointed when they get to play it on their computer screen. Blizzard would like to change the players’ perception of “An all – show game is a lame – content one.” Hence, the end of the year infamous BlizzCon is being cancelled.

Not to mention the fact that Bizzard takes time to release their games. It is not quite good to make their game fanatics wait too long, isn’t it? Given that, the team of creators and producers of Blizzard Entertainment keep themselves busy this year with their three main giant franchises all releasing their new game installment. Diablo III is to be released soon and fans are raving as well as expecting it to be good in order to keep up that stunning game power and high rating from online players. StarCraft is also to release its latest installment StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. This installment has been far long announced to the online game public from its previous version and fans who are truly waiting for so long would totally expect it to be a blast and full of great adventures rather than a plain repetitive version of its former self. Lastly, the new installment of World of Warcraft also enters the scene in the year of the dragon with the Pandaren race taking the lead in Wow’s Mist of Pandaria. In the last Blizzcon, news about this particular installment is not so clear and fans are kept hanging and craving for news on how create this would be, despite the negative speculations circulating it.

See how busy Blizzard would be this year? Considering they are quite serving and providing online games to the players of the 21^st century, who are quite picky and more imaginative in their own way, it is best to take a break from their major event and focus more on development and early release of their games. Keeping the ball rolling with great content is better than advertising an empty game shell.

Mist of Pandaria (MoP) enters the WoW scene with numerous speculations being thrown by both fans and WoW opponents alike. But needless to say, on top of such speculations, Blizzard Entertainment seems to be quite secretive about this new entry. During the BlizzardCon 2011, WoW creators simply introduced a new race, the Pandarens, the nine new dungeons and the 3 new raids. The latest revelations tell the tale of the Pandarens, their history and their wars. Here enters the tale of the Mogu as the main rivals of the Pandarens plus there are opposing groups such as the Sha, the invading Zandali Trolls and the Shado – Pan clan coming in and would definitely cause more trouble to the players. More groups mean more trouble to the way. This would be one hell of an adventure. However, with this huge groups trying to interfere the players’ goal, the game buffs find it hard to determine who would be the end – boss. This is where Blizzard Entertainment shadows MoP with mystery.

In the past expansions, players would automatically know who they would face last in the battlefield, despite the famous rivalries between Horde and Alliance. Take for example in the Burning Crusade, the end – bosses Kael’thas Sunstriderm Illidan Stormragea and Archimonde plus the secret twist of including Kil’jaeden in the list.  The Wrath of the Lich King, was one of the most obvious expansions, literally puts the Lich King famously known as Arthas as the end boss of the game. Lastly, the recently well ended expansion, Cataclysm, brought the players a dish of Deathwing end boss finish.

Clearly, Blizzard try as much as possible provide information to their players and let them plan ahead their perfect strategic fighting course in order to complete the game ahead. But now, with MoP, they simply leave out a cliffhanger. The new expansion’s end bosses information was nowhere to be found. This proves that Blizzard Entertainment also loves a shroud of mystery that would keep their fans and new players hooked in craving for more information before MoP will be released during the second quarter of the year. A little bit of secret puts WoW on top of every forum topics and not letting the passion and fire of the game to die out.

With the universe governed by base players and veterans of WoW, legendaries exist with their own valuable providing benefits to every buff who are investing die hard time to finish each and every guest of WoW. First of all, legendaries were set into the game simply to serve as a status symbol for the players to enjoy and flash off to their opponents. Such symbol would tag the player as a powerful one who is carrying an item emanating a secret powerful nerf. Secondly, such legendaries provide furnish not only power to the players but also gives them the chance to dive into new set of immersion adventures accompanied by new set of tales and lore which gives added spice to the game’s plot. These two features of legendaries truly depict them as legendary and are well held in a pedestal as players make their way through every raid and dangerous dungeons in WoW.

However, not all existing things are bred to have purely good qualities. It has been observed that from one franchise to another, these great legendaries have been diminished in value as players continually enter into the quest through numerous raids and battles trying to build their own powerful weapon. Such leverage would give them the power to govern over the rest of the class. With such eagerness for a powerful weapon, the rare legendaries seem to be not so rare after all with too many players seeking to build legendaries as they go from one difficulty level raid to another. And this, ladies and gentlemen, gives an imbalance to the game of WoW. The players and their guilds or classes were given equal level of access to items serving as weapons with the same damage per second ability per ilevel in the game. Now, with legendaries being built with different set of powerful ability to either destroy a single player or a whole class, such legends puts off the whole balanced nature of the game and generates more issues between players.

With such weapons being focused in the game, the entire plot of the WoW game franchise is totally forgotten and the sole goal of achieving powerful items become its priority. The players get stuck to such lore that they forget to play the bigger World of Warcraft as it is designed to be. So, shall the remaining WoW franchise and newer designed franchise would still benefit with such legendaries tagging along? Only the players and the future hold the answer to this question.

MoP is created to bring forth amazing adventures for all to see and play along and through the eyes of the Pandaren race. But such innovative characters and comical theme, as many view it, is not so much far in providing the cutting edge character raiding adventures and dangerous dungeons as the past expansions have marked. In fact, this year, the new expansion introduces nine new dungeons to scout and three more raids to experience.

Players have been through a lot of dungeons and raids in the past that seem to have put them on a routine auto pilot play while playing WoW. To cut the boredom and routine experience, WoW creators have taken the initiative to incorporate a fresh plan during the dungeon adventures and raids.

In these particular changes, the dungeons are set forth in physical locations in which the players could enjoy to actually fly or walk through rather than luckily embarking on a portal to get there. Also, in each dungeon, the creators have incorporated the new Challenge Mode Dungeons. This particular level gets players to drop off their supreme status symbol and simply battle in level playing field with only low item levels and their witty skills at hand. In every successful win, a player is rewarded with prices such as a distinct armor for transmogrification and other rewards that the players’ characters could brag about. The raids are also being spread out and the raid finder, in this particular expansion, would act as a bridge between running regular and heroic dungeons through to normal raids. Not to mention, the creators have incorporated a ticking clock for players to have only limited time to complete all the challenge dungeon modes in the best and fastest way that they can.

Basically, the creators of WoW have generated such changes to be incorporated in MoP simply to give each player the chance to upgrade their characters every time they log into the game. But these are few of the many changes that Blizzard has in store for its fans. The rest would be for Blizzard to know, design, create and for the players to find out and enjoy this coming summer.

With Ulduars in the game, the atmosphere firstly gives the players a new ambiance of dangerous yet challenging feeling sparking their lost and bored raiding selves into a fresh and up for battle geared soldier. Plus, the dungeons did not simply depict a dark and horrid filled with taunting evil spirits kind of place but rather, they gave a well lit sort of a shrine like scenery with full detailed graphics per turn within the dungeons. You cannot simply imagine what a particular door can lead you to until you step on it and cross to the other side. With such scenery, the fans do crave for outdoor environment rather than get stuck fighting in a dark and encapsulated plus entrapment type of place. As for MoP, fans are hoping to get away from such old milieu and stay more on the brighter side of things govern by full mouth watering and jaw dropping graphical effects.

The amount of bosses incorporated in Ulduar gave players multiple choices to pick at hand. There were 14 bosses in Ulduar and has a short time frame to complete each level and opening a new one from a single tier to another. The great thing about such strategy is that players were given numerous tiers to take down and strategically raid then start a whole new raid in another week. Boredom and routine actions were not seemingly plausible in such game. I guess what the fans are trying to say, with a shorter time frame provided in each curve of the adventure that the franchises offers, the more eager the players would continue each question without getting bored and being left with a cliffhanger would continue on rolling their cravings until the new version would come.

The best part of them all is the conditional hard modes set forth in Ulduars. By completing one challenge to open up a whole new and harder challenge boosts the spirits of the players to continue to strive in taking down more difficult adventures and be pinned as badass players of the game. Plus, with such mode of condition incorporated in the game, it is all up to the players to choose whether to go for the easier route which promise a lower form of reward or start taking down the difficult ones to be rewarded with greater challenges and other gold glittering items.

Fans are wishing to bring back the lost times of Ulduars or at the very least get some of its amazing ideas to be incorporated in WoW’s latest installment in the franchise with the race of the Pandarens to lead the great lore of the Mist of Pandaria. More adventures await for you as MoP enters the gaming world this coming Summer.