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A study conducted by the NPD Group shows that 14% of American households have a monthly subscription to a MMO, more than ever before. This is happening just as more and more people are renouncing subscriptions to magazines and daily newspapers, showing that digital entertainment is replacing traditional media as the ... |
19 November 2009
03:04 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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When Blizzard launched its Pet Store last week, two special little creatures made up the list. The first was the Pandaren Monk, while the second was Lil' K.T. As two sides of a single story, the two pets are completely opposed as characters. The first is a peaceful, well-mannered bear, while the other is a malic... |
13 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Starcraft II just might be the biggest videogame slated to be released in late 2009, but pushed back into 2010. Activision Blizzard was surely concerned about the fact that the real time strategy sequel, which has been expected by gamers for the better part of a decade, would compete directly for the money of the pla... |
13 November 2009
04:33 GMT |
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2009 has not been a great year for World of Warcraft when it comes to its Chinese operations. Blizzard, the creator of the game, has decided to change the Chinese operator for the MMO from The9 to NetEase, a company that has promised to provide a bigger percentage of earnings as royalties.But the transfer itself was ... |
7 November 2009
11:01 GMT |
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In a somewhat surprising move, Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest publishers on the market, has announced that it has made a profit for the fiscal quarter that ended on September 30. Beating expectations, the company saw 15 million dollars in profit as revenue was hovering around 700 million dollars. Analysts ha... |
6 November 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft, the biggest subscription MMO in the world, is getting a Pet Store that will allow players to get in-game companions for the price of 10 dollars. The pets offer no clear gameplay benefit for those who buy them and are strictly cosmetic in nature. After the money is paid i... |
5 November 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Blizzard has just pulled another rabbit out of its hat and has a new, little gimmick for World of Warcraft fans. The company has introduced the Pet Store for World of Warcraft, where one can buy, as of now, two brand-new, non-combat pets. This way, Blizzard can add the micro-transaction feature to its pay-to-play mas... |
5 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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World of Warcraft spent a lot of 2009 sleeping in China, with its servers offline. Now a more crushing blow has been dealt to its WoW community. Reuters reports that the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, or GAPP, has revoked NetEase's permit to operate the game on its territory. The compa... |
3 November 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Over 11 million people pay the monthly fee to play World of Warcraft but almost all of them have something to complain about the game. From the classic problem of balancing the classes, to server issues and unsatisfactory comments regarding how Blizzard bosses run their business, every hardcore WoW fan hates the game... |
29 October 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Blizzard has announced that Starcraft II will need an Internet connection in order to allow even single player games to be launched and that all the multiplayer action will go through the infrastructure of Battle.net. A lot of players were up in arms over the measures, saying that they would limit access to the game ... |
29 October 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Starcraft II is now set to arrive in the first half of 2010, after being delayed for the second time this year, but that does not mean that the guys at Blizzard are not interested in keeping the hype level up by getting high-profile company people talking about the upcoming real-time strategy title. Dustin Browder, w... |
28 October 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Starcraft II is the biggest video-game release of the fall of 2009, which has been pushed into early 2010. And the extra time, while probably annoying those gamers who have been eagerly waiting for the sequel for the better part of the decade, has allowed the team to take an extra look at the title and see how recent... |
27 October 2009
06:34 GMT |
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The MMORPG market is a very competitive one, with plenty of titles out there to duke it out. However, none of them are really good enough to dethrone the King of the Hill, World of Warcraft so all they're left with is fighting amongst themselves in hopes that all the blood and gore of their struggle might attrac... |
19 October 2009
06:55 GMT |
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The Australian Classification Board, best known in the last few weeks for the row surrounding the Left 4 Dead ban for the territory, has announced that Blizzard’s MMO World of Warcraft has received an M for Mature rating and will now be labeled as such on store shelves.When the most popular subscription-based M... |
15 October 2009
15:01 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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In a way, and not a very far-fetched way, World of Warcraft has been sold illegally in Australia. The game never received an official content rating and according to Aussie law a game must be rated and approved by the Classification Board of Australia before it can be sold. This never happened, so one must wonder abo... |
9 October 2009
08:05 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has released a “test realm” update for the Mac version of World of Warcraft. The World of Warcraft PTR Updater provides new features and changes that are applied to the test environment (realm) in order to more effectively test new features making their way into the official WoW gam... |
9 October 2009
06:02 GMT |
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The universe that Blizzard started with the Warcraft series is truly an amazing one and it deserves all the spin-offs, side-projects and all other forms of franchise additions. As far as the stories are concerned, the games that have left the company's front door are nothing short of amazing so when it announced... |
8 October 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment originally announced Patch 1.13 for its action RPG Diablo II earlier this year. Already delayed once, the patch is now being held up by concerns about the impact of increased player stash sizes on the battle.net servers. Early last month, Blizzard’s Bashiok revealed that work had commenc... |
5 October 2009
08:18 GMT |
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It seems that the upcoming Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft, which was unveiled by Blizzard at this year’s BlizzCon event, will be paying homage to one of the biggest videogame releases of 2008, Grand Theft Auto IV, by re-creating some of the experiences of that title in the starting area for the newly... |
30 September 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Blizzard has recently revealed that it plans to deploy yet another expansion for its successful MMO World of Warcraft. This one will be called Cataclysm and will be the most ambitious yet, if initial statements from the developer are to be believed. Players can look forward to getting a completely new game world, whi... |
28 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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To celebrate the 5-year anniversary of World of Warcraft, Blizzard has released a new patch for the game. The upgrade from version 3.2.0a to 3.2.2 will bring some additional changes besides the usual bug fixes, class nerfing and paladin overpowering. Onixya returns to the spotlight as part of a level 80 raid, taking ... |
23 September 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has officially released Patch 3.2.2 for players of its immensely popular MMORPG for Mac and PC, World of Warcraft. With dragon Onyxia reborn, the patch brings players back into the darkest times of Azeroth. As usual, the development team has posted a mile-long changelog for the patch. Luckily,... |
23 September 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Blizzard has developed a reputation, shared by few other video-game developers, like Valve, for only releasing its titles to gamers when it was sure that it had put together a great package with no flaws and an engaging experience. Recently, the company pushed back Starcraft II, its real-time, strategy sequel, to the... |
21 September 2009
18:11 GMT |
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We've all pretty much got the idea that World of Warcraft is the biggest thing out there. The MMORPG is the stuff fears and nightmares are made out of for any company that wants to release a new MMO on the market. Everything is pitted against WoW: how close it will be to dethroning it, how it will survive in its... |
21 September 2009
17:01 GMT |
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This year, BlizzCon gathered over 20,000 fans at the Anaheim Convention Center. Gamers from all over the world came to celebrate alongside Blizzard Entrainment the magic that were and still are Stracraft, Diablo and Warcraft. This year, Blizzard charged $125 for the entry fee, which makes perfect sense, since any sel... |
18 September 2009
05:48 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is the biggest subscription-based MMO in the world of videogames at the moment and it's bringing a lot of money in for Activision Blizzard. The company is not giving up on it, as expressed by the announcement of a new expansion called Cataclysm, but for some time now, it has quietly been workin... |
16 September 2009
17:41 GMT |
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The upcoming Diablo II Patch 1.13 was initially confirmed by Blizzard Entertainment earlier this year. Fans of the action RPG still have to wait for a solid release date, due to typical development delays, but the WoW maker trusts it will be able to deliver the much-anticipated patch soon, according to a Battle.net u... |
8 September 2009
04:08 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important gaming events that happened during the last seven days. We've been host to quite a few big talks about games and consoles, following last week's GamesCon and BlizzCon gatherings so, without further ado, here'... |
29 August 2009
08:11 GMT |
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Developed by Blizzard Entertainment (the maker of World of Warcraft), Warcraft III is an RTS game for Mac and PC that contains four playable races: Humans and Orcs, and the Night Elves and Undead. The former have previously appeared in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, while the latter are n... |
28 August 2009
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BlizzCon was a flood of news, with the company talking to fans about the fresh World of Warcraft expansion, named Cataclysm, about Starcraft II and its wonderful map editor, and, of course, about Diablo III, announcing yet another character class, the Street Fighter-inspired close quarters Monk.But one detail went pr... |
27 August 2009
18:01 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, which is still working on real time strategy Starcraft II, set to come in early 2010, and on Diablo III, which will probably arrive in 2011, caused a lot of waves by announcing that it plans to deliver yet another full-fledged expansion for its World of Warcraft MMO. It is called Cataclysm, does not have a ... |
26 August 2009
19:01 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is definitely one of the biggest games out there, with over 11 million paying subscribers each month spending time in Azeroth and completing quests in all of the lands featured in that fantasy universe. That is why the recently announced Cataclysm expansion for the game has generated a lot of hype ... |
26 August 2009
16:41 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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There are certainly many genres of video games out there, from the fast-paced shooters to realistic simulators, but a very special one has and will be for quite some time the strategy genre, where, for a long while, the EA LA, formerly known as Westwood Studios, and Blizzard Entertainment have battled in franchises. ... |
25 August 2009
02:38 GMT |
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The bad news is that Starcraft II is not coming out in 2009 and millions of real time strategy fans will find they have to look to an unknown date in 2010 for the sequel to the most loved RTS in the world. The good news is that the people at Blizzard are showing off features related to the game that will certainly se... |
24 August 2009
18:11 GMT |
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BlizzCon was in full swing at the end of last week and it brought forth a lot of announcements regarding all of the popular properties from Blizzard, from World of Warcraft to StarCraft and everything in between. But while many people clamored over the new expansion for WoW, dubbed Cataclysm, the company also reveale... |
24 August 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans to ship the third expansion to World of Warcraft, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Windows PC and Mac OS X. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm was unveiled at the company’s fourth BlizzCon gaming festival. WoW: Cataclysm changes Azeroth f... |
24 August 2009
08:14 GMT |
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At BlizzCon, the developers working on Starcraft II at Blizzard announced that Tricia Helfer, who provided the voice for the Cylon model Number Six in the recently concluded Battlestar Galactica revival, was set to star as Kerrigan in the real time strategy that should be released in 2010. She joins a cast that alrea... |
24 August 2009
05:44 GMT |
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As you all know, last Friday and Saturday BlizzCon was in full swing and all things related to Blizzard were celebrated. There were a lot of announcements made but one of the most highly anticipated ones was regarding a new expansion for the hugely successful World of Warcraft MMORPG. The new add-on, dubbed World of... |
24 August 2009
03:45 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is a huge phenomenon, as the MMORPG is the biggest in the whole world, boasting over 11 million paying subscribers each month. This dedicated fan base is extremely interested in all things related to the game, which made the developer, Blizzard, very careful with what it releases in regard to the pr... |
21 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Although Blizzard Entertainment’s website doesn’t list the update as being available yet, the folks at macgamefiles have a World of Warcraft 3.2.0a, which contains the following installer: “WoW-3.2.0.10192-to-3.2.0.10314-enUS-patch.app.” The patch is available for World of Warcraft players in ... |
21 August 2009
07:27 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is one of the biggest video games in the world, boasting over 11,5 million paying subscribers each month. These players are engulfed in the fantasy world of Azeroth and play various factions, races and classes. That is why any new update is extremely important for them, as it might have a crucial i... |
17 August 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important news from the gaming industry in the last seven days. This week was a very interesting one, filled with speculations, reports and, to top it all off, the sales charts from the NPD group showing software and hardware sales ... |
15 August 2009
04:11 GMT |
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Trying to stay on the competitive edge and provide gaming enthusiasts with the latest technologies for computer peripherals, Razer has recently announced that it has teamed up with Blizzard Entertainment, one of the world's leading developers of gaming applications, to co-develop new gaming peripherals that will... |
12 August 2009
10:56 GMT |
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