World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Achievments

While Wrath of the Lich King will improve many of World of Warcraft's existing features, it will also introduce plenty of brand-new ones to keep the game fresh and interesting. One of these new features is sure to suit a wide range of play styles: achievements. These self-contained goals will offer new challenges, satisfy goal-oriented players, allow others to see your accomplishments in World of Warcraft -- and are just plain fun.

World of Warcraft's achievements system will launch with more than 500 individual achievements covering every aspect of gameplay, including world exploration, PvE, PvP, professions, and character development; from the purely whimsical to the truly epic, there will be something for everyone. Some achievements come with in-game rewards such as tabards, vanity pets, and titles. All of these rewards are purely cosmetic and just for fun, but you'll certainly stand out when you proudly display them.

Types of achievements:

• Player-vs.-Player: This includes arena, battlegrounds, and world player-vs.-player objectives. A few examples:
  • Hot Streak: Win 10 ranked arena matches in a row.
  • Alterac Valley All-Star: Capture graveyards, towers, and kill the enemy leader all in one game.
  • City Defender: Kill 50 enemy players in your faction's capital cities.
• Dungeons and Raids: Every end boss of every raid and dungeon in the game grants its own achievement. Future achievements in this category may include ones for completing a run without any player deaths, with fewer than the maximum number of players, or within a certain time limit.
• Professions: Advancing to each tier of mastery in a profession earns you an achievement, and there are specific achievements for secondary skills (with major professions to follow).
• Quests: Quest-based achievements include completing a certain number of quests and completing specific quest lines. This category contains zone-specific subcategories.
• Events: Seasonal events such as the Midsummer Festival, the Lunar Festival, and Hallows’ End have specific achievements of their own.
• World Exploration: You’ll earn achievements by exploring each zone in the game -- and get meta-achievements when you fully explore a continent.
• Reputations: This set of achievements includes attaining exalted reputation with each faction in the game.
• General: These achievements tend toward the whimsical, including getting a shave and haircut (a new feature of Wrath of the Lich King), obtaining a certain number of tabards and vanity pets, falling from a great height, and more.

World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game

Fantasy Flight Games has just released World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game, a fast-paced board game of danger, conflict, and heroes. Two to four players engage in a struggle for glory and valor as they travel the Eastern Kingdoms of Azeroth completing quests and battling monsters -- and each other -- in a bid for supremacy.

Diablo 2

I'm really anxious for Diablo 3, and decided to try out the previous game, Diablo 2. You can download the demo for Diablo 2 Here. The demo is 141 mb and did not take very long to download or install. So far I've really enjoyed the demo and might even purchase the full game from the Blizzard store.

Diablo 3

So Blizzard revealed an upcoming game, Diablo 3 about a month ago at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris. I've never played either of the previous Diablo games, let alone even heard of them. But I do enjoy some other Blizzard games such as World of Warcraft and Warcraft 3. After watching the cinematic trailer that Blizzard released and the additional 20 minute gameplay video, I can't help but think that it's going to be an awesome game. Diablo3 is of the role playing genre, set in a fantasy world brimming with peril and destruction. Players will choose a hero from one of five distinct classes, which so far include the barbarian and the witch doctor. These heroes will then fight their way through beautiful environments and intense dungeons filled with hordes of monsters and bosses. Players can gain experience and unlock new spells by defeating enemies as well as acquiring powerful loot and items. Now my only problem is that I have no idea when the game will actually be available to purchase and play. If Starcraft 2 is any indication, it could be upwards of a year.

• Explore a fully-realized Sanctuary--the living, breathing gothic fantasy world of Diablo III rendered in gorgeous 3D.
• Battle the unholy forces of the Burning Hells with all-new character classes like the otherworldly Witch Doctor, or with re-imagined warriors from Diablo's past: such as the fierce Barbarian.
• Rain Hell on your enemies wielding the interactive environment as a weapon: lay cunning traps, turn destructible objects against your foes, and use environmental obstacles to your advantage--all powered by the Havoc physics system.
• Experience the intensity of multiplayer Diablo III over an all-new, wickedly-enhanced Battle.net platform with numerous enhancements to make connecting with your friends easier--and cooperative gameplay more fun.