| Blizzard All-Stars News Eurogamer.net has recently had an interview with Blizzard's Chris Sigaty and several things have been revealed:
Chris Sigaty insists on the fact that Blizzard is actively working on the project and has not abandoned it. People were assuming that Blizzard All-Stars was canned after not hearing any news for almost 2 years. Check out the full coverage of the interview over at Eurogamer.net |
| Jay Wilson leaves Diablo III team Diablo III's Game Director Jay Wilson has decided to leave the Diablo III team behind, according to a thread posted by himself on the Diablo III forums. He will not be leaving Blizzard Entertainment, he simply states that he thinks it's time for him to move on to other projects and that is why he is being re-positioned on another Blizzard project. The position of Game Director is currently being discussed, so there may eventually be a job opening for it in the near future. Thanks to Edhel-dur for reporting this. |
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| 2013 ~ Happy New Year! |
| We hope you guys will have a great time celebrating the new year, whether it's with your family, friends or even alone.
Be sure to check out the 2012 Retrospective!
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| It's that time of year again: The community can nominate users to receive the special award, User of the Year. Users (Normal hivers, moderators) will first nominate the users they think deserve the award for being the most productive/helpful/etc. in 2012. Afterwards, a limited number of nominees will be added to a poll and the community will vote for the User of the Year. Nomination: 01.01.13 - 08.01.13 Poll: 09.01.13 - 16.01.13 ! Users who have already won this award for previous years cannot be nominated again !
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» 2012 [January]
| A significant improvement to the news section: Original content was written and published instead of news copied from Battle.net. The monthly news batches, initially made by Bob27 (+Rui) back in 2008, made a comeback! Based on the original concept, it received a few additions, including more content, more details and even more spotlights. [January News Batch] (Technically the news batch was published in February due to some needed moderation)
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» 2012 [February]
| 4 new sections were added to news batches: Skin & Spell spotlights, Hypercomments and the well known corner, Caught! [February News Batch]
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» 2012 [March]
| The Project Recruitment forum was closed, due to the main forum, Map Development, rendering it obsolete. The Hive Quiz also made its grand entrance to news batches! [March News Batch]
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» 2012 [April]
| The Diablo Franchise forums were created, containing 2 subforums -- Diablo III Gameplay & Diablo Discussion. 2 new segments were added to news batches: Starcraft News & Diablo III News. Not only that, but its layout also received a complete rework. [April News Batch] The Hive's Rules page was also updated.
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» 2012 [June]
| A User spotlight was added to news batches, spotlighting the most active users in a section, but also another Blizzard news corner, World of Warcraft News. [June News Batch]
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» 2012 [August]
| "Project of the Month" was started, an event where each month the community would nominate the best Warcraft 3 project in development and afterwards vote for it in a poll. The winning project would receive a rep reward along with an interview and promotional help. A normal user's rank was also changed: Users with less than 100 posts would have the peon icon, while the others would have the grunt icon. Mini-Contests were also announced by Pharaoh_, where short contests would be held in the appropriate forum. (Mini-Mapping contest in Map Development) The Resource Moderation forums were closed and Staff Contact replaced them. [August News Batch]
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» 2012 [September]
| New BBcode tags were added: [tabs][/tabs]. [September News Batch] The SCII resources submitted received a preview image. The Hive also celebrated 'International Talk like a Pirate Day' with new theme icons.
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» 2012 [October]
| The Hive started hosting its own Minecraft server.
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» 2012 [November]
| The new award, Merit Badge, was introduced. The community would nominate and later on vote for the most active users who had contributed to the Hive the most in some way. [Winners & Info] Ralle also revealed to the community that he was working on a 3D Model Viewer for the Hive's Models section. Finally, a social group was started, called "The Mad King's Realm". The group organized multiple contests, such as a terraining/writing contest and the winners would get rep rewards.
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» 2012 [December]
| JASS Class was announced and started. Jass Class is basically a class with multiple lessons, where users read tutorials and afterwards do assignments and hand them in for grading. There were formally observers and a limited number of enrolled students, but now anyone can be an enrolled student and hand in his assignment for grading. The Hive released a preview of some of the features coming with Patch 2.0.2 for the Heart of the Swarm BETA.
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| The Hive's Evolution The Hive Workshop is a well known and really popular modding site not only because of its amazing community, but also because of its simple and attracting layout and theme. The Hive was not even a full Warcraft 3 modding site in the beginning, but a site for Ralle's Warhammer 40k map. And thus, its theme constantly changed, until in 2007-08 it retained today's concept. Below you can take a look at some of the Hive's banners, all of them could not be found. Also something that can be interesting for some, the searches that have the most impact on the Hive Workshop are 'hiveworkshop', 'workshop' and 'warcraft 3'. You can thus confirm the Hive's stable position as a top modding site, since most people simply search for the Hive Workshop and not for some random Warcraft III modding site. Other stats include that 33% of Hive's visitors reside in the US, coming in second place with 6% being Indonesia and that 15% of visitors open up Google after closing down the Hive. |
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| "Team Deathmatch shelved for now" In a recent post on Diablo's official community site, the developers have revealed that Team Deathmatch would not be coming anytime soon due it being shelved for the time being. The reason for that is, apparently, that the mode gets relatively boring after a few hours of gameplay and thus Blizzard thinks that it does not live up to its usual standards. They have also stated that the balancing is an issue, since the game was more PvE focused. To replace TDM, they will be adding the much requested dueling feature in Patch 1.0.7, which will be hitting servers early next year. Blizzard is currently looking at alternatives to replace TDM for now and the different mode will still come with a free update.
"Dueling coming early next year"
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