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| STORIES ABOUT: World of Warcraft |
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| 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, immediate ... [read more >>] | | 21 July 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Blizzard Is Focusing on the PC for the Foreseeable Future |  | 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 near future.
Mordhaime was very clear in his statements. He said that the "PC is the gaming platform with the ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2008, 09:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sign up for the Wrath of the Lich King Beta Phase |  | 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, ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Guild Wars 2 Is not Getting a Beta in 2008 |  | 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 pro ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Turkey and the US Targeted by Password Stealing Trojan |  | 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 from China and Taiwan, the most afflicted regions, to Turkey and even the US.
Derek Manky, security researcher ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 11:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Big Blizzard Announcement Regarding World of Warcraft Security |  | 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 spawn ... [read more >>] | | 27 June 2008, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Play "I am Murloc" from World of Warcraft on Your Guitar Hero |  | 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 integratin ... [read more >>] | | 26 June 2008, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft Considered the Free to Play MMO Model |  | 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 currently projects that would create such MMOs for the mainstream Western audience but, in a move which might surpris ... [read more >>] | | 25 June 2008, 02:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Warhammer Online Will Not Challenge World of Warcraft |  | 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 dir ... [read more >>] | | 23 June 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Balance Board Adapted to World of Warcraft |  | 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.
[AD ... [read more >>] | | 18 June 2008, 19:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What Warhammer Online Can Do for PvP |  | 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&l ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 19:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Arena Season 4 Announced by Blizzard |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Doctor Says Many Suffer from “Internet Addiction” |  | 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 MMOs. He also wants to coin "Internet addiction" as a new term used in diagnosis. Too bad he doesn't ... [read more >>] | | 13 June 2008, 19:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 introduc ... [read more >>] | | 10 June 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft China Operator Changes Leadership |  | 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 ver ... [read more >>] | | 10 June 2008, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Death Knight Is the New Class for Wrath of the Lich King |  | 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 ideas to come out from ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vivendi Sells Less, Expects More |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 18:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Subscriptions Bring In 1 Billion Dollars |  | 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 an ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| BlizzCon 2008 Announced |  | 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&# ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft New Hints and Glitches (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 Warc ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 Warc ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 11:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Blizzard Unveils World of Warcraft 2008 Arena Tournament |  | 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 beats us up in an 1 on 1 game of Starcraft.
As the multiplayer scene grew up and as broadband became more reliable a ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 19:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 Chi ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft Has Peaked |  | 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 in ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 19:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft Is Not a “Real” Success |  | 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 of Three Rings, creator of Puzzle Pirates, Andrew Sheppard of Outspark, the company that makes Fiesta, Min Kim ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What Is Ken Levine of Bioshock Fame Playing? |  | 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 such classic and cult hits like System Shock 2 (oh, how we miss you, ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 aut ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Jumpgate Evolution Wants You to Dig and Craft |  | 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 choic ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Codemasters Targets MMO Market |  | 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 fou ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 mean ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tabula Rasa Not a Bust |  | 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," alt ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Step into Huxley's World |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 02:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| WoW Update Nearly Here! |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The EVE of Democracy |  | CCP, the Icelandic publisher of MMOG EVE Online, has recently decided that players all over the world, ac ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 02:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Grandfather of Dungeons & Dragons Dead at 69 |  | 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 a ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hellgate London Is a Bust? |  | Last year was a year full of promising and hyped up releases of MMOs. Amongst them, names like Tabula Rasa, City Of Villains, Burning Crusade. Some delivered both financially and critically, while other busted. Recently, there have been reports that NCsoft's Tabula Rasa is in ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Guild Wars Reaches 5 Million Sold Copies |  | With all the scandal around NCsoft, the Korea Times and the question whether Tabula Rasa is a success or a bust, it is fairly easy to overlook news about another NCsoft product. The Guild Wars series, made up of the original game, campaign add-ons ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 02:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Careful What You Do in WoW |  | There's that guy in World of Warcraft who talks about the impending end. And there are some guys in City of Heroes/City of Villains talking about that plot focused on ending the world. Oh, and there are the shady figures in Tabula Rasa talking about invasion and such.
Where does the game end and where does reality begin? There's a superpower that takes action first and asks questions later. The United States government is thin ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| All Points Bulletin in Final Design Stages |  | Dave Jones is boss of Realtime Worlds, a company that is developing a MMOG for the PC and the Xbox 360 called All Points Bulletin, to be published by Webzen. At the Game Developers Conference, he has showed off what he considers his games' best features.
APB is unusual mainly in its setting. There will be no orcs around and no spaceships flying overhead. Realtime Worlds has decided that the fantasy and sci-fi MMO market is already ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 p ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 05:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 Blizz ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 08:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 ... [read more >>] | | 31 January 2008, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 ... [read more >>] | | 14 January 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 ... [read more >>] | | 11 December 2007, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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