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Mac Requirements Disclosed for WoW: Wrath of the Lich King

Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed the system requirements for the Mac version of its upcoming expansion pack for WoW, Wrath of the Lich King. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion for the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) available today.Following The ...

9 October 2008
04:47 GMT

Russian Version of WoW Gets Dated

The biggest massively multiplayer online game of them all, World of Warcraft, is finally going to receive its already announced new language, Russian, on the 6th of August this year. Starting that day, people who live in Eastern Europe will be able to purchase the localized version of the game and its Burning Crusade...

1 August 2008
02:35 GMT

Blizzard Officially Confirms, Details WoW Achievements

Rumors regarding the introduction of achievements in the most popular MMORPG ever made, World of Warcraft, started spreading quite a while ago when Alpha testers of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion found them by using the "/achievement" command. However, immediately after these rumors surfaced the world wide web,...

21 July 2008
13:06 GMT

Achievements Coming to World of Warcraft?

The biggest MMORPG in the world and one of the most beloved games ever released, World of Warcraft is preparing to get a major expansion with the release of the Wrath Of The Lich King - and it seems that Blizzard really plans to expand things, since it has apparently introduced a LotR-like achievement system. Althoug...

10 June 2008
17:06 GMT

Runes of Magic Come to Life

The free MMO universe keeps expanding and every now and then a project arises, promising to change the world. The same thing happens with Frogster Interactive's MMORPG title, Runes of Magic - a game that looks great and promises to be even greater. We just have to see it released as fast as possible, installed o...

9 June 2008
04:37 GMT

World of Warcraft Hints (PC)

World of Warcraft (commonly known as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place within the world of Azeroth, four y...

17 April 2008
11:31 GMT

World Of Warcraft Commands (PC)

World of Warcraft (commonly known as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place within the world of Azeroth, four y...

16 April 2008
10:42 GMT

World of Warcraft, One Million in China

Blizzard's MMO phenomenon World of Warcraft didn't really get the huge numbers in Asian countries until now, but it was only a matter of time until this was going to happen, right? Well, Blizzard has just confirmed that one million concurrent players from China could now be met on the official game servers....

14 April 2008
02:47 GMT

Blizzard Sues Warcraft Bot Creator

Usually, big companies are the ones getting sued for various (and generally stupid) reasons, but this time things are different: World of Warcraft creators, Blizzard, are suing Michael Donnely, a guy that created the so-called MMO Glider program that automatically performs different in-game tasks (fighting, for examp...

27 March 2008
18:06 GMT

Weekend Reading: The World of Warcraft King and a Broom

This is not your regular World of Warcraft news flash - it's rather the sad story of an unlucky king, a man... uhm... an undead destined for greater glory, level 50 monster hacking - a fearsome undead in the ever growing World of Warcraft - that was never meant to be. Instead, this great cavalier of the apocalyp...

7 March 2008
06:18 GMT

Activision's CEO: $1 Billion Investment Maybe Not Enough to Take on WoW

World of Warcraft is, without reason of doubt, one of the best successes on the market that, even though it has aged and should have been dead already (in theory only - because game rarely "live" more that 2 years). But WoW is still the leader, the moneymaker, the game that drives so many people crazy - destroys marr...

29 February 2008
04:45 GMT

No Micro-Payments for WoW

At the GDC, Rob Pardo, Blizzard's Senior Vice President of Game Design, hosted a conference, called "Blizzard's Approach to Multiplayer Game Design". Hell, he's certainly over-qualified to give such a lecture seeing how World of Warcraft keeps breaking records both financially and in terms of players&#...

22 February 2008
05:20 GMT

World of Warcraft, Reason for Divorce

World of Warcraft is one of the most successful MMORPGs, if not THE Game. It boasts over 10 million users worldwide and it is, for many people, their second life. Unfortunately, it also is a second life that interferes with the real one and it has some pretty bad side effects. One of them is the divorce itself - one ...

18 February 2008
03:51 GMT

New World of Warcraft Arena Model and Cash Prizes

If you are one of the millions of World of Warcraft fans and you would like to earn some official, legal cash for playing the game, this is the news for you! Because Blizzard has announced plans to launch a new type of competition using the Arena System in WOW. With more than $200,000 in cash prizes at stake, it'...

15 February 2008
05:02 GMT

iHaloStats-Like WoW Version for iPhone?

A post-DICE interview with Blizzard cofounder, Frank Pearce, has revealed that the developers of the most popular MMORPG on the planet are thinking of a mobile version for WoW. Naturally, only la crème de la crème of mobile phones will be able to support Blizzard's MMO, and Apple's iPhone sounds like a wort...

14 February 2008
08:01 GMT

Mac Owner and Gamer? Upgrade to 10.5.2. Now!

It has recently been discovered that Mac OS X 10.5.2. enables gamers, and especially World of Warcraft players, to get an overall better gameplay experience. Reports coming from WoW Insider and tuaw.com have revealed that World of Warcraft indeed plays faster after installing Apple's latest software update.Accor...

12 February 2008
08:51 GMT

Where Did We Go Wrong, Why Won't Aliens Talk to Us?

These are the questions astrophysicists are approaching at the Sound of Silence conference at the Arizona State University, after about five decades of listening to radio signals coming from outer space. Either extraterrestrials don't exists, are to far away and can't hear us, not intelligent enough to hold...

8 February 2008
04:41 GMT

World of Warcraft Porn and Nudity and Stuff

Well, this is definitely something Fox News should consider (and I really wonder how come they didn't since it's not something really new, you know?). Or, at least, the guys who found the Hot Coffee mod disgusting could start a new action to get some money back. What should the rest of the world do? Well......

31 January 2008
06:45 GMT

Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!

That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1. So what if consumer demand for Windows XP is still strong even in the context of Vista? So what if original equipment manufacturers and users have forced Microsoft to pro...

31 January 2008
06:01 GMT

World of Warcraft New Milestone: 10 Million Subscribers

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its mega hit massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) continues to climb up the charts and does it pretty well: 10 million users worldwide. World of Warcraft now hosts about 5.5 million subscribers in Asia, over 2.5 million in North America and more than 2 mill...

23 January 2008
09:52 GMT

Rumor: World of Warcraft for Consoles

All the MMO community went crazy after the release of World of Warcraft, about four years ago and almost 10 million players worldwide are a strong enough reason to believe that, even though it's an old game, it still has a long life to live. Words about a console port kept being heard even though the Blizzard de...

14 January 2008
04:45 GMT

Play Wow Using an Xbox 360 Controller!

How would you like to play World of Warcraft with an Xbox 360 controller, sitting back in your chair watching the action on your big LCD monitor with not a tense muscle in your body? Blue Orb has just made available this nifty solution for PC gamers and MMO fans especially, allowing them to play games such as WoW wit...

9 January 2008
05:32 GMT

Mike Morhaime, Blizzard's President Enters the Hall of Fame

Mike Morhaime, the president, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment is the 11th person inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. To enter the Hall of Fame (one person per year), you should be voted on by the Academy's Board of Directors and, of course, be be a person th...

13 December 2007
03:45 GMT

The New Language of WoW: Russian

It wasn't long ago when we found out that World of Warcraft could be actually made in Turkey. Even though, in a way, that is still true, the Russians are those who will have their own version of WoW. It will be the fifth official supported language in the game, English, French, German and Spanish versions being ...

11 December 2007
06:44 GMT

12 Year Old Boy Saves Sister from Beast Using WoW Skills

It's a very easy job criticizing video games. With all these violent and sex-themed titles out there, it's actually hard not to criticize them, but sometimes, video games deserve credit for the benefits they bring as well. Leave aside hand-eye coordination and reflex improving aspects, we're here to ta...

11 December 2007
05:06 GMT

WoW - Feast of Winter Veil 2007 Features Disclosed

This year's World of Warcraft holiday event is no much different than past ones, but that doesn't mean it's not going to feature new stuff as well. For example this new item you can obtain "by /kiss -ing a Winter Reveler NPC" to "create snowfall above any targeted player." Cute, insignificant stuff rea...

7 December 2007
04:02 GMT

Blizzard Hoped to Sell 1 Million WoW Copies

Here's something not everyone expected to hear: former Blizzard North employee, who is now CEO of Flagship Studios, Bill Roper, sat down with CVG this weekend, revealing that Blizzard had modest expectations as far as sales figures for WoW went. The man talked of a 1-million-copies-landmark which Blizzard Entert...

3 December 2007
05:06 GMT

Made in Turkey: World of Warcraft

The truth was out there. It's here right now: World of Warcraft is made in Turkey and there's no doubt about it. And it might be cotton, too. If you think I'm losing my mind, please click the thumbnail to the left, you will immediatelyunderstand.That is a picture made by a guy named Paul, somewhere in ...

26 November 2007
04:36 GMT

Funniest WoW Commercial Ever Featuring Mr. T and William Shatner

The latest World of Warcraft advertisement has to be one of the funniest things that ever hit the web. While William Shatner's appearance (Kirk from Star Trek) is (surprisingly) enough to get people wondering "hey, if Shatner's got game, why wouldn't I have game?", Mr. T's spot is simply sublime. ...

22 November 2007
05:53 GMT

Microsoft on the Windows Vista Wow: We're Sorry! And the Autopsy

Back on November 30, 2006, Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer launched Windows Vista to businesses at the NASDAQ headquarters in New York. But while Ballmer's tongue hanging out might have been an expression of the enthusiasm and excitement orbiting around the hundreds of millions of Vista co...

6 October 2007
06:44 GMT

Latest Issue of Beckett Massive Online Gamer Features Tons of Exclusive Stuff!

Don't you just love your favorite game magazine? When you have a favorite game, you love going out once a month, early in the morning, just to get the latest issue. But what about Beckett Massive Online Gamer magazine? Yup, this one pretty much covers everything. Well, as it turns out, the mag's latest issu...

25 September 2007
06:34 GMT

If You Think the Vista WOW Was Bad, Then You Haven't Seen the MS-DOS 5 Rap

If you think that in terms of marketing campaigns for its operating system, Microsoft managed to deliver only a modest performance with the Wow for Windows Vista, then surely you haven't seen how low the company has sunk with the rap commercial for MS-DOS 5. No really, and you don't even have to take my wor...

14 September 2007
13:06 GMT

Exploit Crashing WoW's Servers Discovered!

A piece I just happened to stumble upon, posted on Theregister.co says that "Players in the World of Warcraft discovered an exploit that crashes the game's servers late Sunday, causing massive outages throughout the night." Blizzard is awfully quiet on this one, but has made a few statements just so they'd ...

28 August 2007
03:59 GMT

GC 07: Tetris Named "Most Influential Game Ever"

The 2007 Leipzig Games Convention is not all trailers, demos and multiplayer experiences, as there are more original events to attend. For example, the "Telespiele 1972-2007" exhibition featured some of the most influential games of all times. By influential, I don't mean the God of War-style standard, followed ...

23 August 2007
05:47 GMT

World of Warcraft Lands on Mobile Phones

It's simply too difficult to walk away from your computer and leave World of Warcraft for getting the most common tasks done. GoWare now brings this highly popular game on mobile phones too, in order to give fans the chance of taking their character anywhere, although the actual mobile game is yet to come.Rumors...

7 August 2007
03:34 GMT

Blizzard Confirms 'World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King'

It wasn't hard to decide what piece of news to post first. A title going "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Unveiled," cannot go unnoticed. Blizzard.com themselves report that the company has announced plans for a second expansion to its popular MMORPG, currently sporting an amazing 9 million subscribers...

6 August 2007
02:56 GMT

India: Windows Vista and the Taj Mahal Don't Mix

Windows Vista and perhaps India's most popular landmark, the Taj Mahal, simply do not mix. Six months after the release of the operating system, Indian authorities have begun questioning Microsoft's use of the Taj Mahal in the Windows Vista Wow launch event. And this Wow has the potential to turn sour for M...

31 July 2007
04:13 GMT

Senator - Level-70 Dwarf Priest in WoW!

In Guam, as reported by the Pacific Daily News (via gamepolitics.com), Senator Ray Tenorio is (you won't believe this) "a serious, level-70 WoW player." More than that, the senator's avatar is a Dwarf priest going by the name of Paleray, user of the Silverhand server. As it would be only natural, Tenorio is...

26 July 2007
04:43 GMT

Milestone - WoW Exceeds 9 Million Users Worldwide

It was only a matter of time really. A press release I just happened to stumble upon today says that Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World of Warcraft has reached a new milestone, as far as its subscribers are concerned. As the headline reads, the MMORPG's player base is now totaling more than 9 millio...

25 July 2007
08:06 GMT

Breaking - Blizzard Is Working on an Awesome Title!

Blizzard is best known nowadays for their immensely popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft. However, there are millions of StarCraft fans out there too, still enjoying a good gameplay experience with the old RTS title. Blizzard knew they could do so much more for both the genre and the franchise and so they're curren...

14 July 2007
07:31 GMT

HD Brand Immersion for Window Vista

The Windows Vista video ad running on 70 meter worth of LCD displays at JFK airport is one of the best video ads for the operating system along with Microsoft's Wow commercial. The video fragment embedded at the bottom plays on a handful of Vista qualities. There is a selection of features, capabilities and func...

9 July 2007
12:47 GMT

The Windows Vista Wow Is Dead!!! R.I.P.

What's a Wow moment? And does the fact that the Windows Vista Wow is dead qualify as a Wow moment? But the fact of the matter is that the Wow has expired. Long live the 404! Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system was marketed under the "the Wow starts now" umbrella. Designed to illustrate an ins...

9 July 2007
07:03 GMT

Less and Less Windows Vista WOW

Users will be taking home less Wow come July 1, 2007. This because the Windows Vista Family Discount Program is scheduled for shut down at the end of this month. With the Windows Vista Family Discount Program, Microsoft was enabling customers of Windows Vista Ultimate to acquire two additional upgrade copies of Windo...

28 June 2007
04:21 GMT

What's New in Microsoft Land: 11th - 15th June 2007

The battle for the best antivirus for the latest operating system developed by Microsoft continues as more and more companies are promoting the software solutions as the ones able to increase Vista's security. Most of them proved to be useless applications including even the Redmond-based company's tool, Wi...

17 June 2007
13:07 GMT

Vista's $500 Million Wow Made Microsoft the Most Prolific Online Advertiser

The $500 million that Microsoft poured into the Wow marketing campaign for Windows Vista, has sold in excess of 40 million licenses of the operating system following the first 100 days of availability, but it has also contributed to making the Redmond Company the most prolific online advertiser at the beginning of 20...

11 June 2007
11:40 GMT

WoW - Gold Farmers Sued by Blizzard

Everyone's suing someone these days, and today, it's Blizzard. They're taking legal action against Gold Farmers, posting a form in which The World of Warcraft message board has a Blizzard team member announcing they are taking such steps against a particular group of gold farmers in their hit MMO title...

28 May 2007
18:06 GMT

Blizzard Makes a 10 Year Old Wish Come True

Some people say that Blizzard's MMORPG, World of Warcraft is a bad thing. - keeping people up too long, playing endlessly, some even dying on their keyboards. Today's news however, will show you a different side of WoW and what it can do "for" others, not "to" others.When the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Ameri...

23 May 2007
09:30 GMT

Windows Vista in Images - Wow's First 100 Days Around the World

Windows Vista was released in two separate stages. Microsoft differentiated between the corporate environment and the home users and celebrated two separate launches for the operating system. Windows Vista hit the shelves on January 30, 2007. But before the operating system was made available to the general public, M...

19 May 2007
14:31 GMT

Blizzard's Next Game - Here Are All the Clues. What Do you Make of Them?

Everyone already knows that Blizzard has something in the works. Whatever the title, it's certain that it is going to be an MMO, as they're hiring people for developing a MMO game. Also, the developer has set up a site that counts down to a question mark, which should be the highly anticipated new MMO title...

18 May 2007
06:26 GMT

World of Warcraft Pocket

No need to fight with your girlfriend/wife, brother/sister over the PC anymore. The OQO is out, not only designed for gaming on the go, but for everything on the go. However, for addicted World of Warcraft gamers, it's the perfect gaming tool supporting even Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Win...

17 May 2007
02:50 GMT




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