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Valve surprised the gaming world when it announced that it was developing a fully commercial version of the popular Defense of the Ancients mod and long term players of the mod might feel a bit betrayed by the recent announcement that the core of the new game will be the same as that of the mod, with the gameplay mec... |
12 January 2011 17:41 GMT |
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It seems that Blizzard will not be working on a true strategy based installment for the Warcraft series any time soon despite fans asking for it for quite some time, as it simply lacks the manpower and the talent to take on another big franchise at the moment.Greg Street, who is the systems designer for the Cataclysm... |
9 December 2010 10:33 GMT |
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This is a Warcraft III: Frozen Throne map that was created using the Felwood tileset with a size of 128x192 of which only 98x173 playable.Be a virus and kill an entire person. Take over cells and reproduce, then destroy the vital organs (stomach, heart and brain). If you take over the stomach, bacteria can enter the... |
30 September 2010 11:52 GMT |
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Blizzard has unveiled the 2010 edition of its Global Writing Contest and is now accepting submissions from fans who think they have what it takes to write an interesting narrative that takes place in the universe of one of the three franchises belonging to the developer. The deadline for the contest entries is the 23... |
6 July 2010 08:01 GMT |
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This year, World of Warcraft, the Blizzard-made MMO, celebrates five years of existence and is still the biggest subscription-based game in the world, with more than 12 million active players logging into the experience.The company is now working on a new expansion for the MMO, called Cataclysm, putting the finishing... |
21 December 2009 05:08 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has, at last, issued Patch 1.24c for fans of its real-time strategy title available for Mac OS X and Windows. The single-player campaign in Warcraft III is laid out similarly to that of StarCraft, being told through all four of the game's races in a progressive manner. A multiplayer mode i... |
8 December 2009 08:05 GMT |
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The RTS genre became what it is today sometime around the early 1990's, with Dune II in 1992, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994 and the 1995 Command & Conquer, as the fathers of the genre. The games have evolved a lot since the beginning of their franchise, and at least one of them plans to make a radical change t... |
30 November 2009 06:03 GMT |
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Last week we looked over the Warcraft movie that is currently in the making and the updates regarding its current state. Now, more details regarding it have come to light. With big director Sam Raimi and, according to the popular movie site IMDB, writer Chris Metzen involved in the project things seemed pretty good f... |
13 October 2009 03:11 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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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 05:26 GMT |
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On the heels of releasing World of Warcraft Patch 3.2.0 yesterday, Blizard Entertainment has released separate patch versions for Warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos and Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, addressing two issues recently found with the popular RTS title available for Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Both the Warcra... |
5 August 2009 05:02 GMT |
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Not a single day without a Hollywood-related piece of news it seems, as the rumor mill started spinning yesterday about who would direct the upcoming World of Warcraft-inspired movie, and now official confirmation has arrived from both Legendary Pictures and Blizzard that reputed director Sam Raimi will be at the hel... |
22 July 2009 13:11 GMT |
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Surreal? Yes, but this video is also too believable not to share. According to several reports yesterday, someone posted a video of a World of Warcraft client running pretty well on the iPhone. Using the VolleeX engine, WoW can (seemingly) be controlled very well via the iPhone's touchscreen interface. Kotaku p... |
27 April 2009 08:43 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has released two new patches for players of its still-popular, real-time-strategy game, Warcraft III. Both Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne fans can download the new patches for free, right here on our website. With the 1.23a release for both Warcraft III games, Blizzard has addressed a few is... |
17 April 2009 05:33 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the most popular game developers out there, having managed to create for itself a massive fan base. The big number of fans were attracted to the titles made by the company because of their intriguing gameplay, top-notch graphics and solid multiplayer options due to the Battle.Net online service.Amo... |
18 March 2009 02:14 GMT |
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Even the gaming world usually looks down on those passionate gamers who are interested enough in a videogame-inspired universe in order to put pen to paper (in this day and age, we’re talking abut keyboard to monitor) in order to create new story lines and events in those universes.But it seems that gaming comp... |
16 March 2009 18:51 GMT |
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DRM or Digital Rights Management systems are the things that protect games from piracy. They impose several restrictions on games, like how many computers you can install the same version on, or how many gamers can play the same copy of the game. Although most of the times they don't make their presenc... |
16 October 2008 04:16 GMT |
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Blizzard has a history of unparalleled innovation when it comes to strategy gaming and especially to its Starcraft franchise. Warcraft was always more formulaic in its approach to strategy, but Starcraft incorporated some elements that were really revolutionary when the game shipped. One of these elements was t... |
1 September 2008 09:48 GMT |
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All the conspiracy theories can be put aside now because it's here: Diablo III has been officially announced. The splash screen from Blizzard's site has made everyone go berserk and until today everything seemed possible, even a merger between the Diablo and the Warcraft universes.The Blizzard Invitational ... |
28 June 2008 08:21 GMT |
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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 |
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Blizzard loves to tease its fans and do a better job at it than Rockstar did with their countdown timer for the GTA IV Debut Trailer. Up on the official site, the developer of World of Warcraft has posted a timeline for an upcoming... something, hinting at earlier game series. Check out the picture to the left.After ... |
14 May 2007 05:26 GMT |
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Blizzard and First Bankcard have announced "World of WarCraft Rewards Visa." Blizzard calls it "The Card That Pays You To Play," and with good reason too because it will come with a free month of World of WarCraft subscription and 1% all purchases made will be converted to WoW game time, MegaGames says. More than th... |
7 May 2007 08:56 GMT |
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No, it's not StarCraft 2, enough already! Blizzard did say something about "revisiting" the RTS's scenery but in a more complex context at their World Wide Invitational (in short WWI) in Seoul.However, Lee Sang-Ho, head of MBC Game was skeptical about it: "Frankly, it's half anticipation and half worr... |
2 May 2007 10:06 GMT |
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