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WoW
Patch 8.3 in-game cinematics wrap up Battle for Azeroth’s story
First up, this post contains spoilers for the end of the patch 8.3 storyline and Battle for Azeroth as a whole. No, guys, I’m serious. The…
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Diablo
Blizzard may have accidentally revealed that Rathma is in the Diablo 4 cinematic
The internet is full of theories about the identity of the pale man who summoned Lilith in the Diablo 4 BlizzCon trailer. The intial reaction pointed…
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WoW
With the Eternal Palace open, the Queen Azshara fight and new cinematic gives us a glimpse of our future
If you need a spoiler warning, consider this entire post to be nothing but spoilers. With the folks at Blizzard having released their Battle for Azeroth Season…
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WoW
Where the heck has Thrall been?
Spoilers for Patch 8.2 and the ‘Safe Haven’ cinematic in this post. If you watched the new “Safe Haven” cinematic, you’ve now seen what happened to…
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WoW
Battle for Azeroth has a ludonarrative dissonance problem
Every game has to think about its ludonarrative options — the way its gameplay is used to tell a story vs. how the story is told…
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Overwatch
If Blizzard debuts a D.Va animated short this week, I’m going to cry
Blizzard plans to reveal a new Overwatch animated short this Wednesday during Gamescom 2018 and if it’s a D.Va one I’m going to cry. Overwatch shorts…
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WoW
A bug may have stopped you from seeing this Jaina cinematic on launch day
If you happened to be in the first wave of people hitting the shores of Kul Tiras yesterday, you may have missed a fairly important cinematic.
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WoW
It’s the 11th anniversary of Burning Crusade and “you are not prepared” jokes
Call me old fashioned — or even Ishmael if you want — but I miss the style of cinematic The Burning Crusade featured. When it first launched…
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Discussion
How important is a game’s story?
Each of Blizzard’s games approaches story differently. Diablo 3 uses story as a scaffolding from which it hangs monster-murdering dungeon crawls. Overwatch treats story as the…
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WoW
Blizzard goes behind the scenes with A Found Memento cinematic
If you’re a Horde player, you may not have seen the cinematic at the end of the lengthy quest chain that begins with A Found Memento.…
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