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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced its set of financial results for the fourth quarter of the current year, showing better than expected revenue and profits for the three-month period that ended on January 31.Activision has announced that it has managed to generate 2.41 billion dollars (1.81 billi... |
10 February 2012
22:11 GMT |
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The MMO World of Warcraft is the most successful subscription-based game in the world and the development team in charge of it at Blizzard says that they are still dealing with the consequences of its remarkable success.
Frank Pearce, who is one of the co-founders of Blizzard, stated at the 2012 DICE conference that... |
10 February 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has rolled out its newest patch for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. Bringing the immensely-popular game to version 4.3.2, the update delivers the ability to form same-faction raids with Real ID friends, as well as tons of fixes and enhancements. The patch is a hefty 1.3GB download and, according... |
2 February 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Blizzard has just deployed a fresh patch for its World of Warcraft online role playing game, taking it to version 4.3.2. World of Warcraft’s popularity has been attacked by quite a few big online titles, including DC Universe Online, which went free-to-play last year, and BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Rep... |
2 February 2012
10:48 GMT |
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The subscription based MMO is not yet disappearing but the success of the free-to-play model has forced developers to offer players options when it comes to their favorite online experiences, according to a representative of developer Turbine.
Speaking to Eurogamer Adam Mersky, who is the leading executive at Turbin... |
31 January 2012
04:57 GMT |
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The developers working on Star Wars: The Old Republic are keen to keep the game subscription-based and believe that there are enough players interested in the MMO genre to power the success of their own product, market leader World of Warcraft and competitors like Rift. James Ohlen, the game director working on Star... |
26 January 2012
07:38 GMT |
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The new, rebooted SSX offers more content than all the titles in the series taken together, according to one of the leading developers working on it.
Todd Batty, who is the creative director working on SSX, told CVG that, “I think the size and scope of our world and the number of tracks is an order of magnitud... |
25 January 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has confirmed that the recently launched big 4.3 update for the Cataclysm expansion for the MMO World of Warcraft is the last big addition to the game before the launch of the next expansion, called Mists of Pandaria.Dave Kosak, who is a lead quest designer working on World of Warcraft, ... |
19 January 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Gaikai, one of the cloud gaming companies which are trying to make games more accessible to potential players, has announced that its service will soon be coming to the social platform Facebook allowing players to first get access to demos of high end video game and then to full releases.The Facebook move means that ... |
18 January 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic has performed better than expected in the months since its simultaneous world release and as gamers discover more of the experience the developers at BioWare are having to answer charges that the new game lacks innovation and is too close to its main competitor.As part of a post mortem ana... |
13 January 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that the 4.3.2 patch for the MMO World of Warcraft will allow players to create cross-realm raids with friends as long as they have the Real ID feature activated.The new feature will work in both older normal and in new heroic raids in the Battlegrounds.The Real ID feature ... |
11 January 2012
10:12 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that it has cut the price for all expansion of its World of Warcraft MMO, both in the official web based store, which allows for full downloads, and in actual brick and mortar retail stores.
Wrath of the Lich King is now offered for 19.99 Euro (25.3 dollars) while those wh... |
10 January 2012
02:22 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic, the new MMO from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, might only have been launched for less than one month but investors are already looking at it as a sign that the subscription based MMO market has life left in it.Colin Sebastian, an analyst who watches the video game marke... |
5 January 2012
07:31 GMT |
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As the past is getting ready to swallow 2011 and the present keeps moving inexorably towards 2012 another analyst has offered some information on the trends that he expects to become the norm during next year.Speaking to IndustryGamers David Cole, who is watching the video game industry for DFC intelligence, has stat... |
3 January 2012
02:58 GMT |
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After just releasing Star Wars: The Old Republic into commercial success, at least judging by the crowded servers of the online game, BioWare, its developer, has confirmed that it has several plans to ensure the title’s profitability no matter its actual popularity. BioWare has just released Star Wars: The Old ... |
22 December 2011
19:31 GMT |
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A former Blizzard developer who has left the company in order to work on mobile titles has said that the design principles of the World of Warcraft creator are a good base to create the popular social games that will determine the future of gaming.Paul Della Bitta, who has worked at Blizzard for more than seven years... |
12 December 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Blizzard has just kicked off a massive sale on its online store, slashing prices on a variety of content, including World of Warcraft, its various expansions and downloadable content, not to mention StarCraft II, although that offer is just available for European customers.The end of December will be a tough time for... |
8 December 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Featuring a new raid, dungeons waiting to be explored, the latest raid tier armor sets, a legendary rogue quest line, the Transmogrification and Void Storage features, and new story developments, WoW: Cataclysm patch 4.3: ‘Hour of Twilight’ is now available for download.Both Mac and Windows gamers will be... |
30 November 2011
07:42 GMT |
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Blizzard has finally deployed the latest patch for its World of Warcraft MMORPG, the 4.3 update called Hour of Twilight, across all regions of the world in the last few hours.World of Warcraft isn’t going through the best of times right now, as its number of subscribers is slowly sinking, but there’s no d... |
30 November 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that long term fans of the World of Warcraft MMO are now able to access the official website of the game and play with the talent calculator using the values that will be used in the Mists of Pandaria expansion.This will give long term players a good way of assessing how th... |
29 November 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Blizzard has released more information on the upcoming Hours of Twilight patch for the MMO World of Warcraft, which will be delivered in late 2011 or in early 2012 and will allow players to get access to three new 5 man dungeons and some other new content.The 4.3 patch is set to include dungeons called End Time, Well... |
24 November 2011
04:25 GMT |
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The analysis firm Lazard Capital Markets has revealed a study which shows that World of Warcraft, the biggest subscription based MMO in the gaming world, could lose between 900,000 and 1.6 million active players in late December, when Star Wars: The Old Republic from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts wi... |
23 November 2011
20:31 GMT |
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A leaked document from developer Blizzard shows that the company is ready to work with law enforcement agencies when they are interested in obtaining personal information about the players of the most popular subscription based MMO in the industry, World of Warcraft.The document has been leaked by AntiSec, a hacking ... |
22 November 2011
22:31 GMT |
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Blizzard has revealed that its long running World of Warcraft MMORPG will be turning 7 in two days, on November 23, and, in order to properly mark this anniversary, all players who will log into the online game will receive special bonuses.This month was filled with plenty of celebrations, from the 10th anniversary o... |
21 November 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Blizzard is making lots of money with its World of Warcraft online RPG, so much that it's just released a brand new commercial for the game that stars none other than famous Hollywood actor Chuck Norris.Pretty much any Internet user knows or at least is familiar about the famous Chuck Norris Facts, a collection ... |
21 November 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Blizzard has revealed that the number of subscribers for its World of Warcraft MMORPG has continued to decrease since earlier this year, now reaching 10.3 million, registering a 10 percent drop that translated in more than 800,000 people deactivating their subscriptions to the online game.World of Warcraft is by far ... |
10 November 2011
14:31 GMT |
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A lot happened at Blizzcon this year and most of the talk has been focused around the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft, mostly the pretty radical ways in which it will change the MMO, and around Starcraft II, mostly the new units and how the mod oriented Marketplace will work.But the one piece of new... |
5 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment, has announced on Twitter that the MMO DC Universe Online has received more than 120,000 new players since the title made the switch to the free-to-play business model.The Twitter message reads: “wow. Over 120k PC registrations in 2 days for DCUO P... |
4 November 2011
11:10 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that its upcoming hack and slash title Diablo III will have between 13,000 and 16,000 lines of dialog split between the various characters classes and the NPCs that players will meet throughout the experience.Starcraft II, the real time strategy game from the same developer... |
2 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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The leader of World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has taken the rather extraordinary step of apologizing for a video that was shown at the Blizzcon event last week, which included a number of censored attacks against homosexuals and Alliance players.Mike Morhaime, who is the president of Blizzard, has sent a letter ... |
28 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Free-to-play MMO projects are all the rage these days, with developers reporting growing player numbers and higher revenue, but at least one leading MMO developer believes that subscriptions are still important.Speaking during an interview with Eurogamer, Mike Morhaime, who is the president of Blizzard, stated, &ldqu... |
28 October 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Paul Sams, who is the Chief Operations Officer at video game developer Blizzard, has said that the offer of free Diablo III for all those who get an Annual Pass for the MMO World of Warcraft is designed to show the player base how much the developer values them.Speaking to Venture Beat he stated, “We talk about... |
26 October 2011
18:21 GMT |
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The announcement that the World of Warcraft MMO is getting a new expansion is usually greeted with excitement by the player base but when Blizzard made the Pandaren the official focus of future content a number of long term fans were annoyed by what they perceived as a joke expansion.Speaking at BlizzCon Chris Metzen... |
26 October 2011
03:07 GMT |
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Blizzard, after unveiling the massive Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft, confirmed another interesting detail about the online role playing game and a new Annual Pass subscription program, which gives loyal players a free copy of Diablo III, the studio's next big game.World of Warcraft, while sti... |
24 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Blizzard, after just finishing its weekend-long BlizzCon event, has confirmed quite a lot of interesting things about its current and upcoming games, chief among which being a newly confirmed fourth expansion for its massively popular World of Warcraft, called Mists of Pandaria, which brings the Pandaren race back to... |
24 October 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has introduced a new pet to the World of Warcraft store which can be purchased by players using real world cash and can then be re-sold for in-game currency, effectively allowing interested gamers to convert their money into game cash and items.An official statement from Blizzards reads,... |
12 October 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Speaking at the GDC Online event in Austin, Texas Chris Metzen, who is the senior vice president of creative development at video game developer Blizzard, has talked about how important writers are to the company and to the success of the MMO World of Warcraft.He spoke about what writing means for Blizzard, saying, &... |
11 October 2011
05:05 GMT |
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One of the leading developers working on the upcoming Forza Motorsport 4 at developer Turn 10 has revealed that he has drawn inspiration for the racing game from a series of very unlikely sources.Dan Greenawalt, who is the creative director working on Forza Motorsport 4, has told GodIsAGeek that, “I tend to loo... |
30 September 2011
08:41 GMT |
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A representative from video game developer Blizzard has denied rumors that the company planned to unveil its new MMO project, codenamed Titan, at the upcoming BlizzCon 2011 event.The representative says that Blizzard is working on a new project, which the gaming world has known for a long time, but that an announceme... |
30 September 2011
05:51 GMT |
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The tracking firm Nielsen, which is mostly associated with offering ratings for television programs, has offered new information showing that the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft is the most played in term of minutes in the United States for the month of June and that the MMO World of Warcraft is the most played ... |
22 August 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Blizzard has admitted that it's trying to modify the release timing of its World of Warcraft expansions, while regular patches are now being designed to include new, smaller adventures that will keep high level players entertained.
World of Warcraft is still one of the most popular massively multiplayer onlin... |
22 August 2011
05:20 GMT |
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SteelSeries, a company that describes itself as being the leading manufacturer of gaming peripherals, has announced that it is ready to launch the Legendary Edition of the SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse, which is specifically crafted to deliver the best experience possible for those who are concerned ... |
9 August 2011
16:21 GMT |
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SteelSeries, a company well renowned for its high-quality gaming peripherals, has just announced the introduction of a new mouse designed specifically for WoW players, which is known as the World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse Legendary Edition.SteelSeries's latest creation is a more compact version of the WoW mic... |
8 August 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that the number of players who are subscribing to the MMO World of Warcraft has dropped to 11.1 million during the first fiscal quarter of the year, which has ended on June 30.
It is the second three-month period that World of Warcraft has seen a drop in subscribers, whi... |
4 August 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has trademarked the name Mists of Pandaria in relation to video games and online services, suggesting that the company might be preparing to launch some Panda powered content for its World of Warcraft MMO.
In the Warcraft universe Pandaria is an island that is the only known home of t... |
3 August 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has clarified that it does not plan to introduce a real money in-game item auction house for its MMO World of Warcraft despite having plans to do so for the upcoming hack-and-slash title Diablo III.
Rob Pardo, who is actively working on Diablo III, has said that having a real-world mo... |
2 August 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A number of newspaper reports are saying that two of the biggest video game retailers in Norway have pulled a number of video games from their shelves as a direct results of the terrorist attack that took place in the country and resulted in 77 people being killed at a youth political camp.
It seems that the title... |
1 August 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Researchers working at the University of Minnesota have announced a new project that will aim to analyze and identify the key traits that MMO players share, in order to allow developers to enhance the experiences that they are offering. The research project is being funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air... |
28 July 2011
16:31 GMT |
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A new report coming from investment firm Sterne Agee says that in the coming months the video game line-up from publisher Activision Blizzard will show more diversity, with the company working hard to make sure that it has more profit sources than the Call of Duty franchise and the MMO World of Warcraft.
Arvind Bh... |
30 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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