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Video game developer Blizzard has introduced the BattleTags feature for all its video games and the forum structure, meaning that all players have the option to adopt an official name that can be used across all Blizzard made products.At the moment players use the character name for each title in order to post on the... |
19 December 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that the old Marketplace initiative will now be known as the Blizzard Arcade and will allow creative players who know their way around game editors to make money by selling fellow players their new content.The announcement was made at Blizzcon and the developers are saying ... |
24 October 2011
14:51 GMT |
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The development team behind the Starcraft Universe MMO project have announced that the Player versus Player mode of their game will be playable by all those interested via the Battle.net service from Blizzard until October 30.On that date the mod will be taken down and the team will work on it some more before launch... |
20 October 2011
09:30 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the closed beta stage for its upcoming hack and slash title Diablo III is now open and that the development process for the game is now in its final stages.The beta is only offered in English and will allow those who are selected to play through a small p... |
21 September 2011
07:09 GMT |
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Blizzard has announced that its upcoming Diablo III role playing game will support popular online payment service PayPal for the new Auction House feature announced last month, while its current Battle.net online service will soon allow players to make purchases with just a valid PayPal account.Blizzard caused a lot ... |
15 September 2011
17:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has launched a new Skill Calculator application that allows all those interested in their upcoming hack and slash title Diablo III to see how different builds of their future character will work.All those who are interested can access the Battle.net service, verify their age and they wil... |
14 September 2011
18:11 GMT |
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A lot of people were surprised and somewhat annoyed by the fact that Diablo III, the next big game launched by Blizzard, will require a constant connection to the Internet and to the Battle.net service in order to work, even for the single player section of the title.And now a representative from Blizzard has express... |
8 August 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Blizzard has revealed that any player who is interested in playing the upcoming Diablo III will have to be constantly logged into the Battle.net service and maintain a continuous Internet connection.The company says that this is necessary because Diablo III is deeply integrated with Battle.net and Blizzard is very ca... |
1 August 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Developer Blizzard has revealed that its upcoming hack and slash video game Diablo III will have a system of official auction houses that will allow a player to buy in-game items using real world money.
Blizzard says that it will not be offering any times directly through it and that it will be up to the players t... |
1 August 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Blizzard has just announced that the multiplayer regions in its StarCraft 2 real-time strategy title are set to be linked together, in order to allow players to be more evenly matched and get larger communities to form and play together.
StarCraft 2 was released last year and plenty of gamers have engaged both in ... |
13 July 2011
18:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard continues to believe in being platform agnostic, meaning that it will aim to get its upcoming high profile releases on as many platforms as possible, including the newly launched Nintendo 3DS and the set to arrive this year PlayStation Portable 2.
Bobby Kotick, who is the c... |
11 May 2011
03:28 GMT |
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Blizzard has once again said that it will deliver the StarCraft 2 marketplace promised back in 2009, so that players can create and share their own custom content with others.
StarCraft 2 has been launched last year into the wide open arms of Blizzard fans all around the world, managing to become the fastest-selli... |
18 March 2011
18:21 GMT |
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One of the most ambitious announcement that Blizzard made at the 2009 edition of BlizzCon has been that it was planning to deliver a Battle.net based Marketplace which would allow modders to sell their content for actual currency in a secure way.
It's been more than one year and Starcraft II has been out for ... |
22 February 2011
18:41 GMT |
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StarCraft II has just received a brand new update, 1.2.0, which adds a huge amount of fixes to the popular real time strategy game.Blizzard promised last year that StarCraft II will be receiving more patches and delivered quite a few updates since then. Now, one of the biggest patches in recent times, update 1.2.0 ha... |
12 January 2011
04:25 GMT |
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It seems that nefarious entities are attempting to use the security issues linked to Gawker Media accounts, including those of known gaming blog Kotaku, to get their hands on account information for the very popular MMO World of Warcraft via the oldest trick in the book, an e-mail which prompts gamers to hand over th... |
15 December 2010
05:38 GMT |
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A leak of important launch milestones from the Chinese division of Blizzard suggests that the company is set to further expand its Battle.net service, aiming to allow third parties to sell their titles on it at some point in early 2012, after introducing a Map Market, presumably aimed at Starcraft 2 gamers, during ne... |
10 December 2010
15:11 GMT |
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StarCraft II cheaters have been targeted by Blizzard once more, after the company banned and suspended the accounts for many gamers that used cheats or cheating programs, either in the single-player or the multiplayer modes of the real time strategy title.Blizzard enforced a pretty severe policy for StarCraft II, in ... |
1 December 2010
17:21 GMT |
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The Battle.net authenticator is very important to lots of World of Warcraft players, as it guarantees that you can safely protect your account from hackers and add that extra bit of security.Sadly, for one player of the massively successful RPG, the authenticator managed to create more problems than solve, as he acci... |
19 November 2010
14:21 GMT |
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A report from TorrentFreak cites, amongst other statistics, the fact that the torrent file for the real time strategy Starcraft 2: The Wings of Liberty has been downloaded more than 2.3 million times since the game has been released in July of this year, leading to a total of 15.77 Petabytes of data downloaded.This m... |
17 November 2010
17:51 GMT |
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Battle.net, Blizzard's online service, might grow in the future and support the addition of new games, which aren't limited to the company's own portfolio, so titles from sister corporation Activision, including Call of Duty, for example, might be sold and have support for the PC service.Blizzard'... |
4 November 2010
15:21 GMT |
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World of Warcraft Cataclysm, the latest expansion for the massively successful online role playing game, is now available for pre-order right from its developer, Blizzard, using the Battle.net online service.Blizzard is pushing into digital distribution realms with the launch of Cataclysm, as it will actually offer p... |
29 October 2010
15:51 GMT |
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The project director for the Battle.net service has suggested that, at some point in the future, the infrastructure will accommodate other Activision published titles, like the Call of Duty franchise, although at the moment the service is only linked to Blizzard made video game.Greg Canessa has said that the experien... |
29 October 2010
03:20 GMT |
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StarCraft II, one of the biggest real time strategy titles of the year, has just received its newest patch, the 1.1.2 one, which will fix more balancing issues and affect each of the game's factions.StarCraft II is currently the most popular RTS in the world, and was finally released by Blizzard after a long and... |
15 October 2010
05:22 GMT |
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StarCraft II is by far the biggest real time strategy title of the year, and as such, Blizzard, its developer and publisher, is taking strict action against those that try to cheat during multiplayer matches, with the latest batch of suspensions and bans going to around 5,000 users.StarCraft II was one of the first t... |
5 October 2010
02:24 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer at Activision Blizzard, has suggested that publishers might be interesting in creating video games based movies that will be delivered to fans without the use of traditional media channels.Talking at the audience at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Media, Communicatio... |
17 September 2010
03:05 GMT |
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It seems that Blizzard has quietly started a monitoring system that is meant to remove inappropriate StarCraft II maps created through the Galaxy Editors uploaded through Battle.net. This was made apparent by a recent topic on the US official forums where user Cyrileo revealed that Ultimate Tank Defense, a map design... |
5 August 2010
08:01 GMT |
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I have one word of advice for anyone who wants to get into StarCraft II multiplayer: Do your homework! Learn what the other races are capable of and scout as early as you can. Learn what your units are good against and what can breach you the other player's defenses more easily. In many ways StarCraft reminds of... |
3 August 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Blizzard has released the official sales data for the first two days of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. The news is very good for the publisher, as the game soled 1 million copies in the firs 24 hours and more than 500,000 units in the next day. This totals at a staggering 1,5 million copies of StarCraft II sold in t... |
3 August 2010
14:21 GMT |
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My previous column explained how I was a total newcomer at StarCraft in multiplayer and how I wanted to see if Chris Sigaty was right that anyone can win at StarCraft. I won my first two games in the practice league, but then I lost another four. Don't laugh, as they were my best teacher and some of my best expe... |
2 August 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Blizzard has given some insight about how it has revamped the features of Real ID, following the aggressive backlash of the fans in the last weeks. The company still aims to establish Battle.net as a social gaming platform and Real ID, while optional now, will still be available, allowing friends and family to easily... |
19 July 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Blizzard has made the install client available for download to the customers that purchased or will purchase StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty to have it ready for the much awaited launch of the strategy game on the 27th of July 2010. This is only for those who bought a digital copy of Blizzard's latest outing, not... |
16 July 2010
04:57 GMT |
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Blizzard, the creator of such popular franchises as Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft, has announced that using the new Real ID feature on the official forums of the company will require that gamers use their real names. It seems the Starcraft II forum and the World of Warcraft one will be the first to be affected by th... |
7 July 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Blizzard is very aware of the fact that the multiplayer environment for the upcoming Starcraft II, which is coming exclusively to the PC on July 27, might not be too welcoming for new players but the company promises the new matchmaking system included with Battle.net will make sure that in a given game, any of those... |
1 July 2010
18:51 GMT |
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Blizzard is preparing to roll out a new version of its matchmaking service Battle.net alongside the launch of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and the company is not afraid of going to the justice courts to make sure that no one manages to crack the system and then use it to put up pirate multiplayer servers that can d... |
27 April 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Blizzard launched the StarCraft II beta during last week and it seems that a small cottage industry is quickly developing around it. There are announcements on the online auction site eBay that offer beta keys for the long awaited real-time strategy for those who are interested in handing at least 300 dollars for the... |
22 February 2010
05:30 GMT |
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Blizzard has been having a busy month of February this year. It released an update on the Monk class of Diablo III just a few days ago and it also gave a detailed preview of the upcoming changes that would be made to the Battle.net service in order to fully support StarCraft II. The service will greatly improve its s... |
11 February 2010
13:01 GMT |
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With the Monk-class update Diablo III just got, Blizzard decided that it would also be a great opportunity to unveil its progress with Battle.net. In order to accommodate the upcoming StarCraft II game, Blizzard has decided that it's time to make a few changes to the online service as well, an update that has be... |
10 February 2010
08:21 GMT |
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Diablo III fans might have received some crushing news when they found out that Blizzard wouldn't be releasing the game anytime in the next year, but that doesn't mean that the entire franchise has been abandoned. Over nine years since its been released, the hack-and-slash RPG is about to receive another pa... |
14 December 2009
04:36 GMT |
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It seems like the BMO Capital Markets forum had a vital piece of information that was initially overlooked. Activision is seriously considering releasing more game features at additional costs. Activision's CFO, Tom Tippl, said that, unlike what we might think, this was what the players demanded and it was not e... |
16 November 2009
04:04 GMT |
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A few months ago, during August's BlizzCon 2009, Rob Pardo, the vice president of game design down at Blizzard, gave the world his view of the Battle.net future. The service has gone for six years now with practically no attention from the company. With no major updates of any kind or modifications, the only thi... |
14 October 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has announced that all current World of Warcraft players will be required to merge their accounts with a new Battle.net account come November 11, when the new Battle.net launches. Those who don’t do the merging will be unable to continue to play online, while those who do merge will recei... |
14 October 2009
10:32 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the most popular video game developers out there, having gained a huge number of loyal users by releasing quality titles and supporting them many years after their release. It has also made fans well aware that their voice will be heard and that they will have the most important say in every upcomi... |
27 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The new and improved Battle.net system, used by Blizzard in order to chart the progress of gamers who own any of its titles, has been the target of a lot of blame lately as you will have to use it if you want to play the upcoming StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty title, which, sadly, was delayed until 2010. But while i... |
27 August 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the most popular video game developers and publishers out there, owning franchises like World of Warcraft or Diablo, which have garnered it a huge number of loyal fans. However, this huge number has gotten smaller, as the company revealed a few months ago that the upcoming StarCraft II would requir... |
25 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
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It has been known for quite a bit of time that Starcraft II will not be featuring pure Local Area Network multiplayer games, with Blizzard saying that it aims to eliminate LAN play, thus routing all the multiplayer gaming through a beefed up Battle.net.But now, several statements from Blizzard people point the way to... |
25 August 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Big video game companies often have a lot of secret projects under development, which they want to announce when the time is right or when they actually have something to show. One such company is Blizzard, the creator of famous franchises like StarCraft or Warcraft. It currently has in development a lot of unannounc... |
8 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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StarCraft II has been in the center of a lot of controversy these days as the company behind it, Blizzard, has revealed that it will not include support for Local Area Networks (LANs) in the game. This is serious news, especially since the first title is still being played today because of its top-notch multiplayer m... |
2 July 2009
03:31 GMT |
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Without a doubt, StarCraft II is one of the most expected titles in the upcoming months, as no concrete release date was given to it by its creator, Blizzard. But the company broke a lot of hearts yesterday, as it announced that LAN multiplayer support would not be included in the game, and that all of the multiplaye... |
1 July 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the most respected video game developers in the industry, largely because it makes titles that are very reliable, run on a lot of PC configurations and have features that are extremely intuitive. Another reason why old titles like StarCraft, Warcraft III or Diablo II are still being played today i... |
30 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the biggest and most popular video game companies around the world, largely due to the fact that it listened to its user base and tried to deliver the most solid and interesting titles on the market, even though these games were often delayed and released “when they're done.”Now, t... |
7 May 2009
13:01 GMT |
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