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October was not a good month for the videogames industry in the United States, which remains the biggest market in the world. Overall, the industry is 19% down over the same period in 2008, going down to just 1.07 billion dollars, making it worse than the same period in 2007.But it seems that even if the numbers don&... |
16 November 2009
03:12 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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September was a good month for the videogames industry, as shown by the figures put out by the NPD Group for both hardware and software, with the decline of the previous months reversed and with revenue pretty much equal to that registered in the same month of 2008. But it seems that October might bring more pain to ... |
30 October 2009
04:09 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
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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 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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Take a look at the following list of high-profile video games: Massive Action Game, Singularity, Mafia II, Red Dead Remeption, Bayonetta, Dark Void, Super Mario Galaxy and the blockbusters BioShock 2, Starcraft II, Mafia II. They were all titles that were set to arrive in the last quarter of 2009, making the year one... |
21 September 2009
04:11 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
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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
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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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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
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Blizzard is one of the biggest video game developers and publishers in the world, owning a lot of highly popular franchises, like StarCraft or Diablo, but also the biggest MMORPG in the world, World of Warcraft. That is why the company doesn't really do gaming conventions alongside other corporations, as it has... |
12 August 2009
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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
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The numbers that the NPD Group releases related to hardware and videogame sales on the North American market are expected towards the end of the week and industry analysts are projecting that they will again be disappointing, with sales going down by 22% overall when compared with July 2008.Michael Pachter, who is an... |
11 August 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard is the biggest publisher of video games in the industry, as it wholly owns hugely popular franchises and titles like Call of Duty, Guitar Hero or World of Warcraft, which rake in money by the truckload every time a new iteration or expansion is released to the general public. During a recent conf... |
10 August 2009
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This week was dominated by Activision unveiling its good financial results for the last quarter, with more than 1 billion dollars of videogames sold to consumers, and by the official announcement that Starcraft II is now officially confirmed to be pushed back to 2010. But there were other things the knowledgeable gam... |
8 August 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard has announced the financial results for the quarter that ended on June 30 and, despite the economic downturn and the overall slump in videogame-related sales, the publisher still managed to sell videogames worth 1.04 billion dollars, which is more than it originally estimated for the period. Opera... |
6 August 2009
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There are plenty of games set to appear this fall season, with headliners like Modern Warfare 2, Uncharted 2 or Assassin's Creed 2. But one big sequel that won't make its estimated release date is Blizzard's StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy. What was specul... |
6 August 2009
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It seems that the theme of the videogame world this week has been delay, as more and more games appear to be moving from the fall and winter of 2009 to the greener-looking spring of 2010. Is it fear of the behemoth that is Modern Warfare 2? Is it just a need to put some more work into them? We don't know but thi... |
1 August 2009
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Recent indications that Starcraft II might be delayed into 2010, based on the announced beta period of four to six months, have led to a fall of shares for Activision Blizzard, with investors thinking that the fall lineup of the company is less compelling for gamers and might generate less than expected revenues.But ... |
30 July 2009
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One of the biggest videogames slated to be released in 2009 is Starcraft II, the Blizzard-developed sequel to what might just be the most important real time strategy title of all time.But with the company announcing a beta for the game for the fall and with various spokespersons saying that six months might pass fro... |
29 July 2009
16:21 GMT |
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StarCraft II is one of the biggest games that are set to appear at the end of this year, promising to take players on a new adventure based on one of the most successful Real Time Strategy titles ever made. But don't forget that Blizzard, the company that is making it, has a habit of not releasing a game if it ... |
14 July 2009
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This week was for directing blood thirsty and dumb minions around the landscape in an effort to spread evil. In one word, it was all about being an Overlord, which we reviewed. But there are other pieces of news that you might be interested in.On Monday, we were all into Sony and its exclusives. Apparently, a movie b... |
4 July 2009
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A lot of people are eager to find out what's the secret behind the success of each videogame developed by Blizzard, from the original Starcraft to World of Warcraft going through the Diablo series.Recently, one of the most important people at the company, Rob Pardo, who is the chief of game design, might have of... |
3 July 2009
14:51 GMT |
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There has been a lot of talk about StarCraft II recently, largely because the development team at Blizzard announced that LAN support for the multiplayer would not be included in the game. Even though fans made a lot of petitions backing up the need for LAN support, as we reported yesterday, the corporation defends i... |
3 July 2009
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Activision Blizzard is competing with Electronic Arts for the spot of biggest videogame publisher in the world and the fall release line up is a key battle in this wide commercial war.And now Mike Hickey, who is an analyst with Janco Partners, is saying that Activision Blizzard might have some problems, generated mos... |
2 July 2009
14:31 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
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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 video game developers in the world, owning some hugely popular franchises like Diablo, StarCraft or World of Warcarft, the latter being the most popular MMORPG in the world, boasting over 11,5 million subscribers. The company has already announced a lot of projects, including Diablo II... |
19 June 2009
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It's nice to know that although the videogames industry is geared towards secrecy, concerning release dates, title information, new developments, future consoles, there are times when secrets slip out via the most mundane documents and events. For example, David W. Carlson, one of the executives working for Game... |
27 May 2009
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Blizzard is one of the most popular video game developers and publishers, thanks to the great titles it has released up until now and due to the fact that it maintains a close relationship with its user and fan base, who can interact with the large corporation on many levels. For such fans BlizzCon is held, an event... |
18 May 2009
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This week, we've been busy playing Resident Evil 5 in cooperative play. It's been an interesting experience, to say the least. We've detailed it, talking about Chris' body, the problem with cutscenes and QTEs and about the missing horror element in the game. But other things have occurred this wee... |
9 May 2009
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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
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Blizzard is one of the most popular companies in the gaming industry, partly because it has struggled to offer players some of the most fulfilling and solid games created and because it always maintains a close tie with its fanbase and implements its desires into updates to the titles already released.Blizzard is als... |
17 April 2009
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Blizzard is a very popular company as it is responsible for some of the most played games of all time, starting with the Warcraft and Starcraft RTS titles and ending with the Diablo RPG and the hugely successful World of Warcraft MMORPG. The company currently has four new projects underway, the sequels to Starcraft ... |
30 March 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the most popular companies largely due to the fact that it has released quality titles and really listened to what its users had to say, trying to meet their requirements whenever and wherever possible. One of the aspects that really shined in almost all of the company's games was the online m... |
20 March 2009
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The StarCraft franchise has been one of the most successful ones from Blizzard, which has released a variety of add-ons and expansions for the original game. Now, as the large company is slowly but surely letting out tidbits of information about the second title, it seems that some things won't stay the same as ... |
26 February 2009
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As with previous weeks, the gaming industry is always on the move and quite a lot of things have happened during the last few days. We've seen everything from new toys based on movies based on games to arguments between companies to new DLC being launched for a variety of titles. Without further ado, here are th... |
21 February 2009
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Blizzard is one of the most popular video game developers out there, largely due to the attention it directs to its games, and to the great experiences that titles such as Diablo, StarCraft or World of Warcraft offer to players. But although fans are extremely loyal to the company, the outsatndingly long and secre... |
18 February 2009
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E3 might be bigger and more visitor-friendly this year, but one of the most important video-game creators in the world, Blizzard, has chosen not to return to the show, probably still remembering the rather lackluster 2007 and 2008 editions of E3. Talking to gaming magazine, Edge Bob Colayco, who is the public relati... |
9 February 2009
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The strategy game genre is one filled with various titles that struggle to offer players a complete experience while bringing innovative things to the table and stirring up their interest. But sadly few of them have success, as some franchises established a benchmark on how RTS (Real Time Strategy) games should feel ... |
2 February 2009
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It's been another week packed with games, even if we're still in the very early stages of 2009. Let's take a look back and see what was important and even somewhat funny in the last few days.With dismay, I found out on Monday that the judge whom I praised last week was not so enlightened about videogam... |
24 January 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Arguably the biggest PC exclusive release of 2009, the game that will make all nay sayers drop the phrase “PC gaming is dying” is Starcraft II, the real time strategy title from Blizzard announced in 2008 and set to be released sometime in the fall of this year.And there are rumors softly revealed across ... |
20 January 2009
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Blizzard has been on a very high ascending trend in the last few years. However, although the hugely popular World of Warcraft MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) has risen to new heights in terms of paying subscribers, 11,5 million, it seems that the company isn't resting on its laurels, as ... |
13 January 2009
03:22 GMT |
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