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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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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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The two massively multiplayer online role-playing games to have been released in 2008 were Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Last year, the MMORPG market also saw the launch of the Wrath of the Lich King, the expansion for World of Warc... |
12 November 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Sometimes, people try to bite more than they can chew and then complain about the sore jaw. One such person could be Alexander Stern. The gamer suffers from a visual impairment and yet insists that he not only play video games, which is a God-given right to anybody, but that Sony make its games more accessible for th... |
9 November 2009
05:41 GMT |
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This week, we've got a review of Halo 3: ODST up (no Master Chief included), a Weekend Reading piece dealing with China and videogaming nationalism and an EndGameWeek about what we're set to play in our spare time. But there are also some new stories you might want to take a look at.On Monday, a list of the... |
8 November 2009
10:51 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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The PC video-game chart often gets overlooked when the NPD Group numbers for hardware and software sales are announced each month. After all, the big battle between the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii is much more interesting than the supposedly moribund market for PC titles. But a quick look at the ... |
22 October 2009
04:36 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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It seems that China is eager to make sure that foreign companies are shut out of the lucrative MMO market of the country, which is set to generate a record amount of revenue this year.The General Administration of Press and Publication together with the National Copyright Administration of the Communist state have an... |
14 October 2009
07:45 GMT |
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This week, we've talked quite a bit about Batman: Arkham Asylum that received both a detailed review on the PlayStation 3 and a quick look related to its PhysX systems on the PC, and about FIFA 10, which generated quite a bit of buzz.Monday was all about the price war between supermarkets and specialized retaile... |
11 October 2009
11:31 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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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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NetEase has officially announced that World of Warcraft, the most popular subscription-based MMO in the gaming world, has been relaunched on the Chinese market and both old and new players can now enjoy the experience of raiding and playing PvP without any restrictions. The operations of the MMO in China have been i... |
23 September 2009
06:35 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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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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PalTalk Holdings, a New York company that claims to be holding several patents that are related to how data is shared amongst connected computers, has filed a law suit against major video-gaming companies like Sony Online Entertainment, Activision Blizzard and Turbine, saying that they infringe on its property by imp... |
18 September 2009
03:23 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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Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s for-profit initiative that allows users to create their own wikis on any subject matter they fancy, has been seeing strong growth in the last six months and is now profitable. In the past year, user numbers have more than doubled, going from 2.8 million unique visitors in ... |
9 September 2009
10:00 GMT |
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After China, which at one point used military driven programs, South Korea and Taiwan, the United States seem to have gotten the first clinic wholly dedicated to treating Internet addiction in mostly young patients. The center is called reSTART and is situated in a suburb of Seattle.The main program it offers runs up... |
9 September 2009
02:56 GMT |
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For quite some time, politicians have talked about videogames as a plague on society and championed schemes designed to limit their sales while blaming them for the ills of society.But even as their rhetoric seems to be toning down, a new generation of gaming politicians seems to be rising up and seeking positions of... |
8 September 2009
13:51 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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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 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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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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The guy who thought about merchandise and branding for the first time is one of the people to have had a major impact on our present civilization and lifestyle. And if you're still having any doubts about the truth behind the sentence above, let me introduce to you one of the latest projects soon to emerge from ... |
20 August 2009
10:52 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
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NCsoft, the MMO-oriented developer and publisher based in South Korea, has announced that it has registered an increase in profits of about 450% mainly because of the Asian release of its newest videogame, called Aion, which is set to also arrive in the West shortly. The sales of the company also rose, by 70%, to 110... |
13 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
13:01 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is the biggest online game out there, boasting over 11,5 million paying subscribers monthly, who can't wait to find out new information about their beloved title and what Blizzard, the company behind it, has planned for its future. As you all know, a few months ago, the company trademarked the... |
11 August 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The Chinese version of World of Warcraft has been offline for more than one month. The downtime has been a direct result of the change of operators from The9 to NetEase. Blizzard is set to get more licensing money from the new deal but it might also lose a lot from a possible reduction of the number of players of the... |
7 August 2009
18:21 GMT |
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The downtime that World of Warcraft has been suffering in China, as operators on that market are being switched from The9 to NetEase, is seen as something of a small catastrophe for Blizzard, the company that created the game, because of the huge number of Chinese gamers who are playing the MMO.Still, the widely held... |
4 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Patch 3.2 for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is now available for download on Mac OS X and Windows platforms, Softpedia can confirm. The update is free to download and can be obtained by using the download link available below. Earlier today, WoW.com cited reliable sources saying that Blizzard Entertainme... |
4 August 2009
10:47 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is one of the biggest online games in the world, managing to pull in over 11,5 million paying subscribers each month into the fantasy realm of Azeroth, where the two main opposing factions, the Alliance and the Horde, duke it out. One major announcement every WoW player has been expecting in the la... |
4 August 2009
10:43 GMT |
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WoW.com, the most popular World of Warcraft fan site, claims to have multiple independent sources confirming the release of Patch 3.2 occurring August 4 in the US. Besides the changes listed in the latest PTR patch notes, the release will also bring “some rather significant extended maintenance,” the sour... |
4 August 2009
06:15 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is the most popular online video game in the world, boasting the huge number of 11,5 million paying subscribers each month. After already seeing two new expansions in the form of The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, interest for this title is still going strong. This is especially true t... |
4 August 2009
03:49 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is the biggest subscription-based MMO in the world of videogaming and, as such, it is often used as an example of the best and the worst of the genre.There has been a lot of talk recently about addiction, with one study saying that nine out of ten players of the MMO are basically addicted, so a grou... |
29 July 2009
18:11 GMT |
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