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by Mike Schramm 
Dec 29th 2008 at 1:00PM
The eagle-eyed among you will have caught a glimpse of this yesterday, on the LLS charity post (and how awesome is it that all that money is raised by WoW players?), but here's the whole thing in all of its glory, thanks to the OC Register's Blizzard Blog: Blizzard's holiday art for the year, drawn by Samwise as usual. Looks like the villians of Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo are celebrating in their own way as well.
Unfortunately this is as big a version as we've found so far -- usually, Blizzard releases the art as a wallpaper in their gallery (here's the art from last year), but there's no sign of this one yet. It's too bad -- I especially like Arthas and Illy D trying to get the time of day from Kerrigan and having no luck at all. Hopefully we'll see it in a much larger version on Blizzard's site soon, but in the meantime, happy holidays from Blizzard!
Update: Hehut found a slightly better (as in, "not a photograph") version over on Samwise's site.
Unfortunately this is as big a version as we've found so far -- usually, Blizzard releases the art as a wallpaper in their gallery (here's the art from last year), but there's no sign of this one yet. It's too bad -- I especially like Arthas and Illy D trying to get the time of day from Kerrigan and having no luck at all. Hopefully we'll see it in a much larger version on Blizzard's site soon, but in the meantime, happy holidays from Blizzard!
Update: Hehut found a slightly better (as in, "not a photograph") version over on Samwise's site.
Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Blizzard, Fan art
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Maxilimus Dec 29th 2008 1:06PM
a gnome? lol
SFJONAH Dec 29th 2008 1:23PM
Are those deathknight fuzzy slippers on Arthas?
Ametrine Dec 29th 2008 1:28PM
Why not? Even the all-powerful lord of the Scourge likes having nice warm toes.
kala Dec 29th 2008 1:33PM
I for one are very sad that they have not continued the voice-acted soundfiles.
They released two freaking awesome ones in 2004, the Hallows-End themed and WintersVeil themed gnome adventures, and there were some cool edited soundfiles released also before those, during Diablo times, but after 2004 they seemed to unfortunately to stop making these.
I have listened these same ones every year now countless times and I WANT MOAR!
J. A. S. Dec 29th 2008 1:50PM
I see the big bads of WotLK, BC, SC, and the diablo series, as well as murlocs, which are clearly a force of infinite evil. The role of the gnome, therefore, is either a counterbalance of equally powerful good which alone can stand against all five, or a hint that the end boss of the next WoW expansion will be the entire collective gnome race.
We are not prepared.
Saithir Dec 30th 2008 4:43AM
It will not be Maelstorm...
It will not be Emerald Dream either...
We will have to venture again to the place of horrors, the place that our parents scared us with when we were naughty.
THE GNOMEREGAN!
Keyra Dec 29th 2008 1:48PM
Last year's is hysterical! Pretty Boy Belf gets his come-uppance! The two from the previous years were okay (love the jawless undead on Santa's lap) but yeah, I wonder why this wasn't put in the gallery?
Hehut Dec 29th 2008 1:51PM
Take a look, here's what I could find. All you had to do was take a look at Sons of the Storm gallery, it's right there for ya ^-^
http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/viewer.php?artist=samwise&cat=warcraft&art=123
Iwanttobeasleep Dec 29th 2008 3:27PM
Who, or what, is the winged woman there?
TheKarmaPolice Dec 29th 2008 3:59PM
That would be Kerrigan from Starcraft Brood War