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Activision Blizzard is a big company that has considerable resources it can use for video game development. And Blizzard, which is set to remain autonomous from its bigger partner Activision, is well known for the fact that it releases games when it believes they are ready and not when the publisher thinks they shoul... |
4 September 2008
13:21 GMT |
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The MMO fans are eagerly awaiting to see what Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, from Mythic and Electronic Arts, plays like when it launches later in September. But there's another MMO launch that is being planned, which has received much less coverage and which could prove just as important in the long run.&n... |
4 September 2008
04:25 GMT |
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The question of the day in the MMO world is: who can take on World of Warcraft and Blizzard and win? Tabula Rasa tried and the results were less than spectacular. Age of Conan, from Funcon, tried and it did well, but not great. Now EA Mythic is giving it a shot by preparing to release what might be the most awaited n... |
3 September 2008
03:08 GMT |
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The Chinese government, through one of its media mouthpieces, the Beijing Times, is saying that more than four million of China's youngsters are "addicted" to online games, mainly MMOs and virtual worlds, while also classifying these games as "unhealthy" for both the physical and psychological development of the... |
3 September 2008
02:01 GMT |
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Blizzard is getting ready for the release of the second expansion for its blockbuster MMO World of Warcraft. But before Wrath of the Lich King can present its glory to all gamers, the game will receive another update, which seems to be massive, in the coming weeks. The idea is that the game is not ready for the expan... |
28 August 2008
05:50 GMT |
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Mythic is clearly making up for the long development cycle (more than three years) of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning by announcing that it plans a world wide release for the game on September 18, which is no less than five days earlier than the date we were expecting to see it thanks to recent rumors. Well, five ... |
7 August 2008
09:20 GMT |
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It seems the Achievements that Blizzard implements into World of Warcraft will be retroactive, not requiring the player to go again to parts of the game he has already visited.Jeffrey Kaplan, who is a designer on World of Warcraft, clearly told MTV Multiplayer that the guys at Blizzard "retroactively track any quest ... |
7 August 2008
08:36 GMT |
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This slipped through our news net when we first talked about the conference call that Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick had with investors following the posting of the financial results for his company. It seems that, alongside information about Vivendi games franchises and World of Warcraft re... |
6 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
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In an investor call that follows the release of the financial results for the first quarter of 2008, Activision Blizzard leading figures mentioned a few facts regarding the future development of their company.Bobby Kotick, the head of Activision, says that he expects the merged Activision Blizzard to sell videogames ... |
4 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
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For the past few months, Blizzard has been full of surprises for the gaming community (even though most of their official statements were common sense and everybody was expecting to hear them sooner or later). However, it seems that the company now loves to share its secrets - and so do we. For example, during the la... |
4 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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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 |
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After a long delay and the axing of some content it might just be that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning or WAR, as it is known, has a release date. The Singapore localized site of publisher Electronic Arts mentioned, on a page which now appears to be gone, that the game is slated to launch on September 23, which is... |
29 July 2008
09:03 GMT |
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The biggest MMO launch of the year so far has been, without question, Funcom's Age of Conan, a game that takes the barbarian setting and turns it into a backdrop for players vs. environment and players vs. player combat.But now Funcom, despite the launch, has seen its share value drop from 54 dollars on launch d... |
29 July 2008
03:20 GMT |
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There used to be a time when beta tests were just a chance for developers to check on their titles by using the free manpower of the fan community, rather than the internal quality assurance departments in their companies. Beta testers were often given unpolished version of a game and there are some who never played ... |
29 July 2008
02:38 GMT |
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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 |
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The PC is not dead and it's not dying either. This is the position taken by Blizzard chief executive Mike Mordhaime during an interview he did with Eurogamer this week. The company is focused on creating complex AAA titles for the personal computer and it's unlikely that this position will change in the nea... |
4 July 2008
09:16 GMT |
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With one segment of its faithful fan base secured with the announcement of the long awaited Diablo III and with a minor controversy regarding the new look of the game already brewing, Blizzard moved to offer reasons of interest to the biggest segment of players it has, the ones that are enjoying its World of Warcraft... |
4 July 2008
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The new MMO from ArenaNet, called Guild Wars 2, will not make it to open beta in 2008, representatives from the company have said. With a beta early in 2008, the game might be out by the end of 2009, but the developers are not making any promises.They say that "Although we publicly alpha- and beta-tested the original... |
2 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Fortinet, a company specialized in providing UTM security systems, has recently published a report regarding the threats it detected in June. According to this report, attackers are once again targeting the online gaming industry, after a short downfall in May and April. The password stealing malware is spreading fr... |
2 July 2008
11:19 GMT |
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You know that big teaser page on Blizzard's website that we talked about a few days ago? The one that reveals a new piece of information, taking fans of the company to the edge. The one that some think marks the announcement of Diablo III. The one that spawned endless speculation threads on all the forums where ... |
27 June 2008
08:33 GMT |
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Even if there's no news of the official merger between Vivendi Games and Activision and with even less news regarding the future of certain key Vivendi Games property - like Prototype - once the merger goes through, there are signs that the process of integrating business assets and creating cross brand marketin... |
26 June 2008
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How do you feel about MMOs and having to pay a subscription each month to play them? Developers seem to know that there are some gamers out there that would like their online multiplayer experiences to be free of subscription, supported through advertising, micro-transactions or a combination of the two. There are cu... |
25 June 2008
02:41 GMT |
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John Riccitiello, the head of Electronic Arts, has talked about the upcoming Warhammer Online aka WAR, at an investor meeting. He sought to limit the expectations of those present at the William Blair & Company by saying that the Mythic created MMO is not going to directly challenge World of Warcraft for domination o... |
23 June 2008
18:06 GMT |
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With the crowd of games that are in development and aiming to use the Wii Balance Board somehow, it was just a matter of time before someone with considerably high engineering skills managed to get the Balance Board working in games it was not specifically designed for.The German Research Center for Artificial Intell... |
18 June 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Warhammer Online is due out this fall and the developers at EA Mythic really want to make this game a revolution as far as MMOs go. And because World of Warcraft has tackled the player-versus-environment gameplay very well, Warhammer Online: The Age of Reckoning, or WAR as they like to call it, will try to best WoW i... |
16 June 2008
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Blizzard is announcing that a new Arena Season is in the works and will begin on June 24, just after the third Season of the event is closed up by the company. Eyonix has posted the details regarding the new season of the Arena concept on the official forum.The Arena contest is separate from the normal progression of... |
16 June 2008
14:06 GMT |
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If anyone needs further proof of how un-informed some people might be when talking about the Internet and online games, just take a look at an article that is currently running in the The Boston Globe. Dr. Jerald Block is presented as being a psychiatrist that specializes in helping those that spend too much time in ... |
13 June 2008
19:31 GMT |
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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 |
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The9 Limited is announcing that it is appointing George Lai as its Chief Financial Officer. The previous CFO, Tony Tse, is resigning on July 3 due to personal reasons.Jun Zhu, chairman and Chief Executive Officer at The9 Limited, stated that "we are very pleased to welcome George on board as our new Chief Financial O... |
10 June 2008
03:20 GMT |
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As the release date for the second World of Warcraft expansion is fast approaching, the people at Blizzard have released more information on the new class that the expansion will bring, the Death Knight. The class itself seems to be part tank, part spellcaster, which definitely makes it one of the more interesting id... |
20 May 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Two days ago, we talked about the financial results of Electronic Arts, which surprised most people by selling more games but recording a loss, rather than a profit. Yesterday we talked about the financial results the PlayStation 3 maker Sony has posted for the fiscal year of 2008. And today, in other fiscal news, we... |
16 May 2008
18:11 GMT |
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The NPD, already well known for the sales charts that it puts out every month regarding the console market and the games market, is creating a new report that deals with the online subscription market. The results of the first study of this kind are now out and they paint a very interesting picture of the state of th... |
14 May 2008
14:41 GMT |
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What's better than playing Starcraft II and maybe, just maybe, Diablo III? Some would say that going to a BlizzCon is one experience that can't be matched by playing games, a one in your lifetime opportunity to go deep into the gaming nexus that is Blizzard. If you're a Blizzard fan, you can be cheery,... |
13 May 2008
03:43 GMT |
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Again, just to make sure you all breathe easy, the World of Warcraft movie is not directed by Uwe Boll. Although it seems he might have had something to do with the concept. But there is a World of Warcraft live action movie in production. Which could prove a good thing. Or a bad one, depending on how it turns out.Uw... |
22 April 2008
04:32 GMT |
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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... |
18 April 2008
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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 |
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The E-sports movement is becoming more and more important as time passes by. There's a competitive urge in all of us and gamers tend to take that urge and exploit it to get better at the games they play. Without it, we wouldn't care when someone thrashes us in Call of Duty 4 multiplayer or when someone beat... |
15 April 2008
19:11 GMT |
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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 |
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After some talk at the MI6 conference on the fact that there's an 800 million possible MMO audience out there and World of Warcraft has only managed to capture around 10 million of them, more WoW critiques are on the horizon, this one coming from THQ executive Jack Sorenson, who is involved in the creation of an... |
9 April 2008
19:06 GMT |
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The MI6 Marketing Conference, that takes place in San Francisco and concentrates on the business side of games development, featured a lengthy panel discussion about the MMO business modes and the potential for growth that free-to-play games could have in the near future.The most important speakers were Daniel James ... |
9 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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To most of the older hard-core gamers Ken Levine is one of the gods of gaming. And his most interesting work is not the fictional, dystopian and Objectivism infused underwater world of Bioshock, but the long running spell at now defunct Looking Glass game studio, where he was a central part of the team that created s... |
8 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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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 |
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Jumpgate Evolution is a MMO due to be released by NetDevil, and recently, its producer, Hermann Peterscheck, has answered a lot of questions related to the game. It's interesting to see how a new MMO is trying to explore niches and details that will make it a viable choice when it inevitably comes up to juggerna... |
25 March 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Codemasters is prepared to reach out and touch someone. Or rather something, as its aim is in producing two MMOs targeted at the gaming consoles, especially the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The Codemasters Online Gaming or COG division has already launched four MMO projects aimed at the PC market and there's ... |
21 March 2008
10:24 GMT |
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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 |
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Starr Long, who is producer of the science fiction MMO Tabula Rasa, has released a statement responding to recent speculation about the game's performance on the NCsoft website. Long said: "the game has not taken off as quickly as we had hoped," although he reassured players that the company will offer new conte... |
7 March 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Huxley is a much delayed project and an MMO. So, the signs are not good for developer Webzen. A similarly late MMO, Richard Gariott's much troubled Tabula Rasa, has yet to make profit and create a niche for itself in the MMO market. Another champion of delays, Age of Conan, is also due to launch later this year.... |
7 March 2008
02:34 GMT |
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The next World of Warcraft update, numbered 2.4 for the math aficionados out there, is named Fury of the Sunwell and is currently undergoing public testing. With its deployment not too far away, it's worth looking at what it will bring to the players.The 2.4 patch is the first time a whole new outdoor area is op... |
6 March 2008
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CCP, the Icelandic publisher of MMOG EVE Online, has recently decided that players all over the world, active in the game, will be able to elect a nine-man Council of Stellar Management, with a mandate from the player population to talk directly with the producers of the game on matters relating to game changes, play... |
6 March 2008
02:40 GMT |
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Gary Gygax, the man who, together with Dave Arneson, designed the first Dungenons & Dragons game somewhere in 1974, has died. He was 69 years of age and had been ill for some time now. He will be missed.Dungeons & Dragons was and still is hugely important to videogames as we know them today. Let's look at some r... |
5 March 2008
05:42 GMT |
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