Who’s who at BlizzCon: WoW Insider’s guide to the staff of Blizzard

Who’s who at BlizzCon: WoW Insider’s guide to the staff of Blizzard Everyone going to BlizzCon this year will get to roam around the convention hall with some of the very people who bring you World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games. While many World of Warcraft fans might be familiar with the online pseudonyms such as “Drysc” and “Tigole,” very few probably know what they actually look like. We’ve searched the internet high and low for pictures of these folks and have compiled them into a nice and handy gallery complete with some biographical information. The pictures are small and mobile enough that they can be saved to an iPhone or other mobile device that can be brought into the convention hall. If you happen to be going to BlizzCon be sure to stop and say hello to these Blizzard people. And if you aren’t going, check out WoW Insider during the convention for the latest and greatest reporting right from the floor.  

BlizzCon 2008: WoW Insider interviews J. Allen Brack

BlizzCon 2008: WoW Insider interviews J. Allen Brack Here at BlizzCon, we just got to sit down with the head honcho of our favorite game, J. Allen Brack, lead producer of World of Warcraft. And the biggest surprise of the interview wasn’t a nice tidbit about the future of WoW (and its battlegrounds) or how class changes are made, though we did talk about both of those things. No, the biggest piece of news we got out of him is that he loves WoW Insider — he told us that Blizzard is paying close attention to what not just us bloggers but you commenters are saying on this site, and that the community plays almost as big a part in directing the game’s development as the developers themselves do. But the WoW Insider love didn’t stop us from grilling him on what’s next for the Wrath release and the game beyond. We talked about what changes Blizzard aims to make to battlegrounds, what kind of ideas Brack and his team have for after the second expansion, and even what he wants WoW to do that it hasn’t yet. And yes, we got the story on dance studios, and why we won’t be cutting a jig quite yet in