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• 2006: Warcraft movie announced, Legendary and Blizzard collaborate
• 2009: Writer Gary Whitta leaves, Sam Raimi is announced as Director with Chris Metzen.
• 2009: Robert Rodat is announced as screenwriter
• 2010: Announcement at BlizzCon that the script is "pretty much laid down"
• 2012: In July Sam Raimi left the team
• 2012: In August, Variety announced that Charles Leavitt was the new writer
• 2013: In January, Duncan Jones is announced as the new Director
• 2013: April sees the announcement that VFX will be handled by Bill Westenhofer
• 2013: Slashfilm asserts that the film will release in 2015, filming starting in January 2014.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on all this, as I mention in the video, the script has obviously been a major stumbling block. What are you hoping to see? When are you hoping to see it? And will it be better than all the other video game movies?

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• All Things Azeroth Preparing to Prepare
• Hunting Party Podcast Episode 169
• Legendary Blizzard Kidnaps Lore!
• Twisted Nether Blogcast The Elizabella Chronicles

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• All Things Azeroth All Runes Must Go
• Hunting Party Podcast Episode 167
• The Instance Hot Trash
• Legendary Blizz Lies!

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• All Things Azeroth Unlocking the Celestials
• BlizzPlanet Weekly Featuring Twizzcast
• The Instance Heroic Less (Is More)
• Legendary Tanks Are Dead!
• Twisted Nether Blogcast WHU is Frostheim?

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• All Things Azeroth Ready, Set, Refresh!
• Hunting Party Podcast Button bloat?
• The Instance A Date with Blizzcon
• Legendary Epic Alterac is Back!
• Twisted Nether Blogcast Awaiting the Podcast

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• All Things Azeroth The Jokes on Us
• Hunting Party Podcast World first Heroic Lei Shen
• The Instance The Hearthstone Files
• Legendary Titan at BlizzCon?

Since the announcement of Hearthstone at PAX East, many developer interviews have been circulating (including our own!). This week the All Things Azeroth podcast featured Hearthstone production director Jason Chayes and game designer Ben Brode, and there are a few interesting tidbits to take away from the interview that you might not have heard before. In particular, they detail an example of the types of fun cards they're developing to keep gamers on their toes. The example they discuss is King Mukla. You might be familiar with King Mukla if you've quested through The Cape of Stranglethorn, he's the enormous gorilla you need to kill to complete the Princess Poobah questline. In Hearthstone, Mukla is a cheap card to play that packs a punch, but the catch is that he'll give your opponent bananas which allows them some extra abilities, so you've got to think carefully about when you play him!

Other topics covered during the interview include some more details about card crafting and the rationale behind it, the Golden Card upgrades, and some of the developers' thoughts on things like a client for Hearthstone in WoW to ease the pain on those long DPS dungeon queues. I must say, the more I hear about Hearthstone, the more fun it sounds. I've got high hopes for this game, not least because I think there's a good chance that it might be the magic video-game bullet that finally piques my boyfriend's interest. Hey, he's resisted all my attempts to get him into WoW so far, I'm getting desperate!

You can check out All Thing's Azeroth's conversation with Jason Chayes and Ben Brode in episode 339. Happy listening!

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• All Things Azeroth Soon is Sooner Than You Think
• Blizzplanet Hearthstone Heroese of Warcraft Interview, Jason Chayes and Ben Brode
• The Instance Two heads, six total specs

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• All Things Azeroth Bolvar, The New Lich-Chief
• Blizzplanet Hearthstone, Project Blackstone
• Hunting Party Podcast Google Hangouts is better than Ustream!
• The Instance Interview with Kristian Nairn
• Legendary Stuck on the Twins
• Twisted Nether Blogcast The Blogger's Fridge

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• All Things Azeroth Forever Chasing the Green Fire Football
• Blizzplanet Why the PAXeast reveal might be Warcraft related
• Legendary No New 5-Mans!
• Twisted Nether Blogcast Thunder Round

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• All Things Azeroth The Thunder King Comes
• Blizzplanet Blizzard to Reveal Something New at PAXeast
• Hunting Party Podcast Last show before Patch 5.2
• The Instance Dingalong the Dragon Man
• Legendary Fork It!
• Twisted Nether Blogcast DSihx, the D is Silent

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• All Things Azeroth Calm Before the Thunderstorm
• Blizzplanet Tom Chilton Interview -- Patch 5.2
• Hunting Party Podcast Hunter buffs in 5.2
• The Instance The One with Ghostcrawler
• Legendary Back to Azeroth with Titan Titllations

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• All Things Azeroth Introducing the Less Fail Bag
• Hunting Party Podcast Class Representation
• The Instance A plain white room
• Legendary Episode 115
• Twisted Nether Blogcast Escapist Scrawl

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• All Things Azeroth 5.2 Wanted -- Dead or Alive
• The Instance Is there no justice?
• Legendary Elitist Jerks!
• Twisted Nether Blogcast Melty Goodness

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• All Things Azeroth All's Faire in Raid and War
• Hunting Party Podcast The Warcraft movie!
• The Instance The Dawn of Dragons
• Legendary World of Warcraft is Dead, Departed, Extinct, Pushing up Daisies ... Oh wait
• Twisted Nether Blogcast It's Always Sunnier