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Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick takes aim at Star Wars: The Old Republic and casts doubt at the game’s profitability for EA.

Once upon a time in vanilla World of Warcraft, the Alliance didn’t have a leader. Varian Wrynn, King of Stormwind, was AFK and nowhere to be found. This is the story of how he actually attempted to became a leader to rival Chris Metzen’s favourite poster orc. Join us as we look at how he got where he is now and speculate on what his role is going in the next expansion.

The art panel is always a highlight when a new World of Warcraft expansion is announced because it means one thing: concept art - and lots of it.

Blizzard announced several new details about the Diablo III launch as part of BlizzCon but managed to surprise many by not including the release date. Chris Metzen fell back on the familiar “when it’s ready” statement but it's still set for release next year.