The Warcraft 3 races page has been updated with a new Undead unit, the Gargoyle. There's a brief description and an animated gif showing animation.

Blizzard has posted the first three Hero items from the upcoming Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos. They are the Crown of Command, Cloak of Shadows and Ring of Intelligence.

Blizzard sends word of four new Warcraft 3 screenshots online, showing a variety of landscapes and characters from their upcoming 3D RTS. These shots were featured in a new Computer Gaming World preview of the game.

Blizzard has posted a single new screenshot from their upcoming 3D RTS Warcraft 3. It mostly shows lumber production.

There's a new Warcraft 3 unit bio up at Blizzard.com, with the races page now listing the Druid of the Talon. This is a Night Elf unit in the upcoming RTS.

Blizzard has posted a new Warcraft 3 screenshot, showing human soldiers facing the Undead Frost Wyrm. Warcraft 3 is Blizzard's upcoming 3D RTS.

The Wolf Rider is the latest addition to the Warcraft 3 Races Page. The Wolf Rider is an Orc unit in the upcoming Blizzard RTS.

If you're still dying to play Warcraft3, here's the latest chat with the developers transcript giving out a few more tidbits about the game and some specifics/answers behind some of the gameplay decisions.

Turning out to be a Blizzard news day. They have posted ten new screenshots from the upcoming cash machine Warcraft 3, the RTS. This in addition to their gameplay movie.

Also while at ECTS, Blizzard released a gameplay movie of that Warcraft product, Warcraft 3. This 70mb Quicktime movie can be downloaded from Fileplanet or the Blizzard FTP server.

We received two emails tonight from people who seemed to have received their Blizzard Insider emails early by accident. In this news letter, Blizzard announced World of Warcraft. Blizzard is supposed to announce a new game at the ECTS show that's starting on Sunday, and this looks to be it. This is what was said about World of Warcraft

During a press conference today at the European Computer Trade Show, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer, online role-playing game set in the rich fiction of Blizzard's Warcraft universe. Featuring bold 3D graphics and deep, immersive gameplay, World of Warcraft will allow thousands of players to adventure together in this epic setting and will provide them with a new, in-depth perspective on familiar lands, former battlefields, and heroes from the legendary universe. In addition, World of Warcraft will introduce new, uncharted territories and foes never before seen by followers of the series.

The Blizzard Insider page was immediatly pulled after the emails got sent out but someone managed to save a copy here. Thanks siber & Neil. Here's a single small image that comes with the WoW announcement

Blizzard sends word of a new Warcraft 3 screenshot on their site. Their caption "Annoyed by a blatant display of Human trickery during what were to be peaceable negotiations, Marn Thunderhorn readies his catapults.".

Another character bio on the Blizzard Warcraft 3 page. They have info on the Assassin character this time.

Blizzard has released a new MP3 featuring music from the Warcraft 3 trailer. It's a 2.11mb download.

Blizzard's Shlonglor posted on the WarcraftIII.net forums, saying the Human Ranger, Night Elf ArchDruid and Orc Shadow Hunter heroes have been cut from the upcoming 3D RTS. Thanks VE.

Fan page War3.com has conducted an interview with Blizzard's Bill Roper (thanks HomeLAN). Naturally, the interview talks about Warcraft III, and Bill comments on a number of different aspects of the game, and he also says that, "the Orcs and Humans are currently about 90% complete and the Night Elves and the Undead are about 60% complete." On a related note, Blizzard has posted a new screenshot from Warcraft III on their official site.

Another look at a Warcraft 3 unit at Blizzard.com. This week they have the Ghoul, an Undead Unit from the upcoming RTS.

With 5 months left in 2001, Blizzard has already announced that their upcoming 3D RTS Warcraft 3 won't be released until 2002.

We firmly believe that this additional development time will prove invaluable, ensuring that Warcraft III will expand upon the legendary gameplay experience previously found in the critically acclaimed Warcraft series. Announcements regarding further details and specifics of the Warcraft III beta test will be released in the near future.

Of course Blizzard is no stranger to product delays, Diablo 2 and many of their other games had the same happen to them.

Got an email with the news that Blizzard has another Warcraft 3 character page up, for the Grunt. They have an animated gif and a sound file, along with a description for this Orc unit.

Thanks to VE for bringing this new Warcraft 3 screenshot on the Blizzard site to our attention. It shows a random scene from the upcoming 3D RTS.