Realm Maintenance: Ep. #40 – Vol’jin, with a Twist of Silver

5.3 is here, and this week the show is in Extended Maintenance mode, clocking in at over two hours long! Three amazing interviews, two WoW parody songs, and one contest for a month of WoW game time! All that and much more as we countdown to 5.3 going live. Around the World of 5.3 in … Continue reading »

5.3 Dev Interviews – Where to Find Them

The following is a list of all of the fansites/podcasts that participated in interviews with members of the WoW dev team over the past several days. Wowjuju WoW Pet Battle Crew Azeroth Roundtable Icy Veins  (this interview will be posted and available soon) WoW Insider Arena Junkies Legendary Convert to Raid Realm Maintenance would like … Continue reading »

Dev Interview Update – 3 More Interviews Confirmed

Realm Maintenance has learned of the following developer interviews taking place in the near future: WoW Insider – Lead Systems Designer Greg Street aka Ghostcrawler Arena Junkies – Ghostcrawler and PvP Designer Brian Holinka aka Desvin Icy Veins – Ghostcrawler and various class designers (questions submitted via email, similar in format to what Totemspot did … Continue reading »

Convert to Raid Interviews Ion Hazzikostas Later Today

With the impending launch of 5.3 in a matter of days, fansite and podcasts interviews are starting up once more. Convert to Raid will be livestreaming their interview with Lead Encounter Designer Ion Hazzikostas, aka Watcher, at 5:30pm EDT at converttoraid.com/live If you miss the livestream interview you can still catch the interview as part … Continue reading »

Realm Maintenance: Ep. #39 – Grand Old Time Waiting

Shame on Rho for thinking 5.3 would be out this week. Don’t fret though. Today’s show is a little longer than usual as you’ll hear the entire interview with Sayomara Vesper from Grand Old Podcast. There’s also a WoW podcast gathering at Blizzcon you might want to learn about. Rolling Restart- You’ve heard it a … Continue reading »

Realm Maintenance: Ep. #38 – Don’t Give Lore the Middlefinger

For the second week in a row Realm Maintenance covers two podcasts in one interview. It’s a light news week, but that’s to be expected when patch 5.3 looms in the distance. Rolling Restart- The man, the myth, the hair. Rho talks about Josh Allen aka Lore’s hiring by Blizzard Entertainment. As always the show … Continue reading »

Realm Maintenance: Ep. #37 – This Josh In

This week Rho interviews one podcaster about two Warcraft themed shows. 5.3 isn’t far away, and this week you’ll also learn exactly what is planned for the 5.3 extended maintenance episode. Rolling Restart- It’s the end of an era in progression raiding as the US guild Exodus disbands. Rho shares his thoughts. As always the … Continue reading »

Realm Maintenance: Ep. #36 – Holy Dev Chat

This week’s show had so many last minute edits due to breaking news it made Rho say “Holy Shatt!” Listen to the entire episode to catch the latest breaking WoW news, along with an interview with Holy Shatt and all the Podcast News you can eat. (Realm Maintenance recommends against eating news and suggests listening … Continue reading »

Live WoW Developer Q&A on April 25th

The following is a message from Zarhym which a number of WoW podcasts and other community sites recently received. I’ll bring this up on Tuesday’s show briefly, but here’s the entire message ——— Good people of Azeroth, lend me your eyes! We’ll be hosting a live World of Warcraft developer Q&A open to the community … Continue reading »