The Blizzard website has been updated with a look at the Abomination character from the upcoming Warcraft 3. He is an Undead Hero.

WarcraftIII.net has another movie from E3 showing the Blizzard RTS Warcraft 3. It's a 38mb file.

Over at the WarcraftIII.net site is a new 13.6mb video of Warcraft 3 that was shot at this year's E3. You need the DivX codec installed. Saw that on VE.

Blizzard has made a pretty big update to the Warcraft3 website, redesigning it and including new information and screenshots (in wide screen format even). Mostly just stuff that was seen at E3 I am guessing. We glanced at Warcraft3 while at E3... looked uh.. a lot like last year. Ship it!
Meanwhile WarcraftIII.net has the final part of a big Q&A with the Blizzard guys asking all about this RTS. This 3rd part focuses on gameplay, tech and misc elements of the game.

- Anything new on seasonal and day/night effects on races?
This is still very much a work in progress. Yes, the Night Elves and the Undead have advantages at night. Do the Humans and Orcs have a proportional advantage during the day? Or do the Night Elves and Undead suffer a balancing "penalty" during daytime? "We're not sure yet how that's all going to work," say the Team members, "but we're going to make sure it's fair and balanced."

- Has Blizzard made plans to include the canceled sixth race in the Warcraft III expansion?
Surprisingly enough, we didn't get a brush off on this one, like "Who says there is an expansion?" But we also didn't get a "yes" or "no." What we got was an interesting, "We have had so many races developed for this game, we could do a bunch more and still not run out." Before you capture that as a "confirmation" of an expansion pack, though, it really is not. Quite. :-)

Gamespot UK has posted a new Warcraft 3 preview, as well as an interview with Blizzard's Bill Roper to talk about the 3D RTS. They have also updated their screenshots archive.

The FiringSquad has a new Warcraft3 preview, based on a recent look at the game at the Blizzard offices. There are several new screenshots from this 3D RTS as well as gameplay details.

There is a new Warcraft3 preview on Inside Mac Games, which comes with more details on this RTS. Also there are four new screenshots.

There's a big bad Warcraft 3 preview on Gamespot this weekend (thanks Stomped), looking ahead at the 3D RTS from Blizzard. They pretty much give an update on the game, describing what they saw improved from last time they saw the game. According to the preview, the game is still about 6 months away but looked impressive.

We also saw peons chopping down trees. Although trees will no longer be a resource, they will remain as barriers that you'll have to cut down to move across. The animation of the peon chopping the tree was particularly impressive, as the tree shook its branches with each swing from the peon's ax. Pardo also revealed that there will be rock walls that can be cleared away on some terrain in a similar fashion. Among the other terrain features that Pardo showed us was the dual-depth water. There is now shallow water, which units can wade across (with attendant ripples and splashes), in addition to the standard deep water, which is impassable ...

Warcraftiii.net has five more movies showing off Warcraft 3. The videos include Q&A's with Blizzard's Bill Roper about things such as NPCs and cinematics.

Eurogamer is sporting another Blizzard piece this morning. An interview with the illustrious Bill Roper discussing of course Warcraft3

Mark F. sends word of even more Warcraft3 stuff to look at. Here is a video taped at the recent Blizzard event held in London which also includes some explanation on removing the Burning Legion race. More videos here.

Skipped by the Warcraft3 stuff the other day for some reason but there is a ton of it now. You can check out article about the recent unveiling of Blizzard at Warcraftiii.net , GameData (Need Babelfish, Thanks Blues) , as well as Eurogamer. I also updated the Shack Warcraft3 images a bit.

This article which is written in some kind of funny language has some new images of Warcraft3 as well as the Diablo2 expansion which is just about done. Blizzard gave a presentation in Italy recently. If you wanna translate the italian try here. Thanks Blues

Those sneaky Russians are at it again. If they arent dropping space stations out of the sky on us they are interviewing Blizzard employees. Here is an interview with Mr Roper from Blizzard discussing Warcraft 3.

There's a Warcraft 3 interview on Quarter to Three, talking to Blizzard's Bill Roper about this 3D RTS. This is part one, the second part will be posted during the weekend.

The War3.com guys got a quote from Blizzard on them yanking one of the races from the lineup for the game. (Now NPC's). "It really boiled down to we felt that we could make a better game with them as a powerful NPC race then if they were a playable multi-player race. The loss of any part of the design pains me, but sometimes you have to leave features on the cutting room floor :(" Thanks Stomped

Over at Wacraftiii.net is a chat log from a chat with the Blizzard guys, talking to them about Warcraft 3. Blizzard has also announced the game will now have four races instead of five.

Blizzard sends word of a Warcraft 3 gameplay preview, weighing in at little over 14mb and offering a look at actual gameplay instead of just cinematics. You don't need anything installed besides DirectX to watch the self-running video. While you download (if you are at all interested in this RTS that is), here are some screenshots of the game.

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