In case you guys missed it (and I can’t believe you would), Blizzard released the official cinematic for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, coming later this year.
Oh Arthas, we heart you in all of your blue melodramatic emoness.
To watch the trailer, head over to the official World of Warcraft site: here!
Not sure if this is actually running anywhere, but this TV spot for the Toyota Tacoma created by Saatchi is surprisingly funny.
The story from Chaucer’s “the Canterbury Tales” was enacted within Wow for an english class. The Pardoner’s Tale is the story of three men who set out to kill death itself, but stumble onto a small fortune. They then fight over the fortune and betray each other.
(Found at the great WoW Insider.)
Some friends of mine had to play a theatric scene in an “unusual enviroment” as an assignment, so they chose Ironforge as their stage for a rather short version of the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet, with a level 19 pally twink and a freshly created female human warlock as the actors.
This is not only a great idea in my humble opinion, but it also faces a very real problem in WoW: What do you do after you hit the big 60? Sure, there’s new dungeons to raid and loot to acquire, but after some time, you’re all set in epic gear and can slay Onyxia with half a dozen people. Something like a theatre play can really bring life and joy to an “old” server, as the slideshow displays.
Also, for me, this is a very interesting take at reversed Machinima - instead of using the game to create a movie, you bring the acting right into it. It’s a bit of the next step after the Velvet Strike movement.
Within a few minutes, the troupe got an audience of about twenty people, and they had to do two encores - one of the balcony scene, and a part from Goethe’s Faust as a bonus. In the end, they got the usual fireworks and blizzards, and even collected a tip of 3,5 Gold - not bad for 15 minutes of fame, I think :)
Make of it what you will. A Mok’Nathal homeland? Maybe.
And yes, you’re going to have to be a little patient as our tour guide shows us tediously just how difficult uncrossable mountains can be to … um … cross. To me, it looks like a whole lot of undeveloped virtual property. Lots of blurry browns and repeated placeholder patterns … but maybe others can see bigger possibilities.
This is a video of a Paladin switching to Shaman.
FROSTSHOCK!!!!!!!
This is a short video clip of Jeopardy in which Leroy Jenkins is mentioned. The funny thing about this video is none of the contestants know the answer.
This video is also an older one, but I think it is by far the funniest to date.
This has made the rounds but I had to post it because if just one person who’s reading this hasn’t seen it then I can feel satisfied that I’ve sufficiently shared the love. Basically the gist of it is a girl died IRL and her friends and guildies decided to have an in-game funeral. They all lined up and paid their respects and it’s sad and sweet. Can I get an “awwwwww”? Well the plan was great except they posted it to the boards before hand and well, you can see where this is going. This is a classic for the music choices alone and deserves to go down as one of the all-time great WoW moments.
The You Tube video is kind of lo-res and you can’t read the postings very well but you can get the idea of how it goes. If you want the high res version I put up a mirror of the AVI here. It’s pretty fat but if you’ve never seen it it’s worth the DL. Serenity Now bombs a funeral
You might’ve seen this elsewhere, but it bears a repeat viewing. Yes, there are many liberties taken with the rendering (What? That looks more like Aden or Ascalon than Azeroth!), but the effort to seamlessly intermingle an everyday product with a predominantly geek-oriented activity is far better than what we’ve seen in the States. Sure, EverQuest II attempted a tie-in with Pizza Hut, but that’s not too much of a stretch.
If Blizzard did team up with a prime time U.S. advertiser, which one would impress you most? Discuss.
