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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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Just after it introduced patch 4.2 for World of Warcraft, Blizzard has announced that the extremely popular MMO is now going free-to-play, but only until level 20.
World of Warcraft is currently the most popular online role-playing game out there, even if some subscribers have gotten tired of it, so Blizzard is tr... |
29 June 2011
17:31 GMT |
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World of Warcraft has just received patch 4.2, a brand new update called "Rage of the Firelands," which adds a new quest line, all new raids and overhauls some of the core features of the massively popular online role-playing game.
Blizzard's World of Warcraft has been losing a few of its subscribers recently... |
29 June 2011
04:55 GMT |
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The developers at Blizzard are not offering any real information about their confirmed next generation MMO project Titan but it seems that a number of veteran developers from their very successful World of Warcraft have been moving to the new game as the development process ramps up.Greg Street, who is the lead syste... |
23 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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NetEase, the Chinese operator of the World of Warcraft MMO, and Blizzard, the creator of the leading title in the subscription based space, have announced that the latest expansion for the game, called Cataclysm, will be launched next month for Chinese gamers.On July 12 players will be able to get access to new conte... |
22 June 2011
17:41 GMT |
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The upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is set to "more than compete" with the current most popular online game, World of Warcraft, as BioWare, its developer, has revealed that internal testing shows a high interest in the new title.BioWare has worked on Star Wars: The Old Republic for quite some time now, and t... |
14 June 2011
15:51 GMT |
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A report from an ex inmate from a Chinese labor camp suggests that those kept there have been forced to play popular MMOs, like World of Warcraft from Blizzard, in order to farm gold that could then be turned into real world money for the prison bosses.
Liu Dali, the pseudonym for a prison guard that was himself thr... |
26 May 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Gaming network NetEase, one of the biggest on the Chinese market, has announced that it has increased revenue by a full 25 percent when compared to the previous fiscal year and seems to be in advanced negotiations with publisher Activision Blizzard linked with bringing the Call of Duty series to China.
The company a... |
24 May 2011
10:19 GMT |
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The two leading developers working at BioWare have said that they are prepared to see a lot of comparisons between Star Wars: The Old Republic, their upcoming MMO, and the Blizzard-created World of Warcraft.
Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, who are two founders of BioWare and now also lead role-playing game developmen... |
20 May 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has stated on the official forums that it is working on creating a new Dungeon Finder like feature for the MMO World of Warcraft that will allow gamers to create teams to run 5-man dungeons by using their Real ID friends and across game realms.
The new system will be offered for a pri... |
19 May 2011
18:21 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is beginning to lose some of its subscribers, as Blizzard reports a drop in their number, while promising that more frequent updates are going to be made to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
World of Warcraft is the biggest online title out there, with its subscriber count being... |
10 May 2011
17:21 GMT |
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World of Warcraft will be on the receiving end of a massive patch, taking it to version 4.2, in the following months, and Blizzard has already detailed some of the main features that will be packed into it.
World of Warcraft has barely hit version 4.1, but Blizzard is already thinking about the next big update and... |
2 May 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has put up a set of job recruitment announcements on its official career portal page that seek to attract software engineers for a new video game project, which has not been officially announced and does not seem to have a name yet. The ads say Blizzard Entertainment is “on the hunt for ... |
15 April 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that tickets for the Blizzcon fan centered event which will take place later in the year will cost those interested 175 dollars, which is a new record for the event and the third increase operated in as many years.
Blizzcon 2011 is set to take place on October 21 and 22 ... |
13 April 2011
04:39 GMT |
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At the moment, Blizzard Entertainment is confirmed as working on three big projects: the Heart of the Swarm release for Starcraft II, the hack and slash game Diablo III and its new MMO concept, Titan.
The company is also widely believed to be preparing another expansion for World of Warcraft at the same time.
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25 March 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Blizzard has announced that it is preparing a new relocation service for guilds that will allow the owner of one to maintain the name, the level and the perks of the organization when he moves it to another faction or to another server.
Nethaera, who is the community manager at Blizzard, has said on the official f... |
24 March 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Frank Pearce, who is a senior vice president at Blizzard in charge of product development, has told Gamasutra that, “Whether it's a Blizzard game or another great MMO, I think there's plenty of space in the market for great MMOs to share customers. We have players that burn through content in weeks or... |
22 March 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Ever since a leak coming from the China offices of Blizzard talked about a new MMO project at the company, called Titan, fans have speculated on whether the game might threaten the dominant position of World of Warcraft.
But at least one Blizzard executive believes that its leading subscription-based MMO faces a m... |
22 March 2011
06:41 GMT |
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There are quite a lot of people out there who sort of doubt the computing capabilities provided by AMD's new Fusion APUs, but it seems that, as far as MMORPGs are concerned, the APU behaves just fine. So, according to a report by Netbooknews, it seems that one of the most recent portable computing systems built... |
18 March 2011
09:09 GMT |
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As the launch date for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic draws near, the executives at Electronic Arts have begun to outline the ways in which the BioWare-made video games will be better than the Blizzard made World of Warcraft.
Speaking in an interview to Industry Gamers Frank Gibeau, the leader of the EA Games... |
16 March 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Blizzard might not be ready to talk about what its project codenamed Titan really is, but the developer seems pretty interested in talking about its expectations for the new MMO, and now one of the leading executives at Blizzard says that the developers are already playing the game internally.
Speaking to Gamasutr... |
9 March 2011
05:39 GMT |
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We already know that Blizzard is working on a new MMO project that is codenamed Titan, but the company has so far refused to offer any concrete details linked to it, probably for fear that it might affect the popularity of its current blockbuster World of Warcraft.
And it seems that Blizzard is working hard to mak... |
8 March 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Speaking at the Game Developers Conference, the World of Warcraft Game Director Tom Chilton has said that creating and launching the Cataclysm expansion for the MMO was hard to developer Blizzard because it meant cutting out and recreating areas of the game. Tom Chilton said that the people working on the expansion ... |
3 March 2011
05:34 GMT |
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When developer Blizzard announced they were interested in creating an action shooter spin-off from Starcraft, featuring one of the Human ghosts, a lot of fans were excited about the possibilities of the game only to then have their hopes crushed when the company terminated the development process without much ceremon... |
15 February 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Video-game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced better than expected results for the last quarter of 2010, saying that it has seen an increase in revenue to 2.55 billion dollars for the last three months of the year, compared to 2.50 billion for the same period in 2009. It's worth noting that the results... |
11 February 2011
15:01 GMT |
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We already know that developer Blizzard is working on a new MMO project, but the company has been very slow in offering details about its new video game, sticking to the idea that it is not working on merely a sequel to World of Warcraft but that it is crafting an experience which will feel completely new to all thos... |
11 February 2011
05:54 GMT |
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