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Warcraft is a popular computer game series and franchise created by Blizzard Entertainment. While the first Warcraft game, along with its sequels, belong to the real-time strategy genre, the franchise also includes numerous spin-offs, including novels, tabletop role-playing games, various merchandise, and the extremely popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.
Goblins have small eyes, green skin and long pointed ears. They are relatively humanoid and wear clothing, as do many other denizens of Azeroth.
During the Second Great War, the Goblins made an alliance with the Horde, providing them with their engineering skills, such as the Goblin Sappers and the Zeppelins. After the defeat of the Horde, the Goblins were scattered and became neutral, favoring neither the Horde nor the Alliance; it is speculated that, in light of the goblin love for profit, they did this in order to increase the trade of their goods and services. Another theory is that they were shunned from the Horde due to their unstable personalities. (read more...)
…that Ragnaros the Firelord is one of four elemental lieutenants? The other three are Therazane the Stonemother, Al'Akir the Windlord, and Neptulon the Tidehunter.
…that the Elven word Kaldorei means "children of the stars", the name adopted by the Night Elves?
…that Warcraft is full of pop culture references, one being a reference to Link from The Legend of Zelda?
...that you can have a pet chicken quest by /chicken multiple times with a chicken targeted?
...and that if you target the chicken named "Plucky Johnson" in Thousand Needles-Salt Flats and /chicken he will transform into a human wearing rarely-seen GM robes and wave at you.
…that with over 7 million subscribers, World of Warcraft is the most popular world-wide MMOG to date, being available in almost every country?
…that in June of 2006 World of Warcraft has captured 50% of the MMOG market? [1]
...that following the opening of the gates of Ahn'Qiraj, there are at least three Legendary (orange) items in the game so far? One is a quest reward, a special mount which you get for forging the sceptre of Ahn'Qiraj and turning it in in no more than 10 hours after the opening, and the other two (a mace and a sword) are crafted using very rare items from various bosses in Molten Core. There are two other Legendary items found, a necklace which was removed by Blizzard because it was 'deemed too powerful', and another sword called the Ashbringer, seen on most GM's, but they are currently only attainable for players on private servers. Blizzard has suggested that these items will be attainable after future patches.
- Version 1.12 was released August 22, 2006 and introduced the much awaited cross-server Battleground system.
- Version 1.11 of World of Warcraft was released June 20, 2006.
- At E3 2006 Blizzard Entertainment released details about the upcoming World of Warcraft Expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. This included information on the new Alliance race, the Draenei, as well as previews of the new raid instance Naxxramas.
- Version 1.10 of World of Warcraft was released on March 28, 2006.
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