Legion

Okay, the cinematic is out and it's moved the story.

In a surprise turn, Chris Metzen has unveiled the intro cinematic to Legion during this year's opening ceremonies at BlizzCon.

This is the live blog for the World of Warcraft: Legion preview of BlizzCon 2015.

I was going to talk about BlizzCon but then this happened.

Welcome Dakotaraptor, a contender for largest Dromaeosaurid ever. Not only is it nearly the same size as Utahraptor (it’s built on a more gracile body plan, so it almost certainly weighed less) but this late Cretaceous raptor is a game changer for a variety of reasons. It’s much akin to its relatives Velociraptor or Deinonychus but scaled up to bigger than even Jurassic Park dared dream, and it had long feathers on its forelimbs in a structure that even the most anti-feathered dinosaur grump would have to admit is a wing.

Wings. This nearly twenty foot (six meters) long raptor had wings. No, it couldn’t fly with them any more than an ostrich can, but it had clear, unmistakably feathered forelimbs. At this point, if you put featherless raptors in your dinosaur movie, you look like an idiot. It would be like having hairless lions and tigers in your movie because they look cooler. Just stop it, Hollywood.

Last night we learned a bit about Legion from a leak that made its way around Reddit and other sites: Legion will be releasing on or before September 21st, 2016.

Making its rounds today on Reddit and elsewhere is a background image from Battle.net, with a few important details about Legion and Legion pre-orders.

I'm one of those people who can't be led to something.

I’m listening to Brainsaw by Therapy? and writing The Queue. BlizzCon is in a few days.

Let’s talk about Blizzard games, shall we?

Last week, I talked about several characters that I'd like to see make an appearance in the upcoming Legion expansion.

When World of Warcraft: Legion was announced, the official site for the new expansion included a cast list, similar to what we saw with the Warlords of Draenor website.