About this time last year I wrote a small piece on adding a bit of entertainment to the install process for PC games, citing in particular Blizzard’s World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Litch King, as a good example. I have a feeling that Blizzard is going this direction will all their games, because [...]
This week WoW.com podcast the #99 WoW Insider they received an email from user Chimitick that prompted a discussion surrounding the World of Warcraft UI. Host Mike Schramm has a lot of positive things to say about WoW’s UI, whereas WoW.com’s Mark Turpin (aka Turpster) is a little more critical. Discussion centers around Blizzard making [...]
I thought this was an interesting install screen. I wanted to check out phasing, a local instance concept Blizzard introduced with the latest World of Warcraft expansion: Wrath of the Litch King. While watching the game install I noticed an attractive little bonus that made the install-watching much more pleasant. Blizzard entertains by displaying a [...]
In the recent Blizzard podcast Diablo 3‘s senior artist Mike Nicholson expounded on the UI and inventory system for Diablo 3 equating it to World of Warcraft. Diablo 2 had several problems, especially when it came to inventory, and from the what Nicholson says it seems that many of these issues will be solved. With [...]