Saturday, April 22, 2006

World of Warcraft GM Power

The GM's of World of Warcraft (the human players that work for Blizzard and act as assistants/police in-game) get some awesome gear and can visit special places. This video, made while playing on an unofficial server, shows what gear, places, and overall commands the GM's get. He can even spawn giant bosses and kill them with a simple command as well. Impressive!

Thursday, April 20, 2006

World of Offline Gaming

What happens when players play too much World of Warcraft and it bleeds into real life - or - a great little movie showing a bit of what happens in the World of Warcraft in real life situations. Either way, it's a great, funny clip and I recommend you all click Play and enjoy!

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Fun with Bots

Like most every game, the World of Warcraft has it's fair share of people that try to cheat the system. Some use exploits, others use bots as seen in this video, but remember all that are caught get banned and Blizzard has recently banned thousands of accounts for stuff like what is seen in this video. A bot is essentially a script that runs alongside the World of Warcraft game telling your character to do certain instructions automatically, without you even needing to be at the computer. Things like attack, heal, loot, look for new monster. When two Horde fellas stumble on an Alliance bot, they decide to have some fun with it!

Monday, April 17, 2006

Return

This is one of the best, if not *the* best movie I have seen for the game in any catagory. I was saving this one for later, but it's being presented now by popular demand.

From Google Video:


"Return" is the tale of Voldigar of Stromgarde, a grizzled warrior finally returning to his beloved home and bride only to find his past in ruins.

Utilizing the World of Warcraft game engine and lore, film-makers Terran "Liadov" Gregory and Ezra "Voldigar" Ferguson take Machinima down the road of the classic cinematic fantasy epic. This short tale is hopefully only a herald of much more to come.

2005 Machinima Film Festival * Winner, Best Off The Shelf Machinima * Nominee, Best Direction * Nominee, Best Writing * Nominee, Best Editing

Blizzcon Movie Contest (2005) * Winner


Click play to watch:

GUARDS

A great parody on the COPS tv show, GUARDS details a day in the life of a Guard in the World of Warcraft. Some nice editing and great role playing work done in this clip by "ibeckman671".

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Explorers Guide to the Galaxy

If you need one video to show you all of the more secret areas of the World of Warcraft you can explore, this is the one. It's got near everything covered, including underneath Stratholm, Ironforge Airport, beyond the Greymane Wall, placeholders for the game, and tons more to a rocking soundtrack. The movie weighs in at over 25 minutes long so get the popcorn out and enjoy this long and awesome movie.

The Amazing Race

In the World of Warcraft, you can take flights on creatures to other cities to ease the time it takes to travel to and from. In this video we see a Tauren Shaman on a flight path being raced by a Hunter who is exploiting a bug in the game to achieve a very high rate of runspeed. The flight goes from the main city of Orgrimmar all the way south to the trade city of Gadgetzan; click play to watch it as I won't dare spoil the ending: