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Almost Three Million Lose Life To Lich King

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Wrath of the Lich King is the fastest selling game of all time beating the old champion: Burning Crusade. Believe it or not, Blizzard is saying 2.8-million people picked up the expansion to World of Warcraft and are currently [...]

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Tags: Activision · Blizzard · world of warcraft

Trials of a World of Warcraft Player: Entry Five

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts“The Grind”
With Wrath of the Lich King arriving last week it only made sense to jump into the new content “Lich King” style. Although we had initially reacted to the beta, playing the final content was much more fun with all of our guild and [...]

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Tags: Blizzard · Editorial · MMO · Trials of a World of Warcraft Player · world of warcraft

Blizzard’s Next MMO, In Development

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsIn yet another “no kidding” news item, Blizzard is working on some new MMO says Paul Sams, Blizzard COO, in an interview with videogaming247. This new MMO is going to be “cool, new, different,” he says but doesn’t give any details into it except that [...]

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Tags: Blizzard · world of warcraft

Wrath of the Lich King, Midnight Openings

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s almost that time again folks, the next expansion for Blizzard’s World of Warcraft arrives the first minute on the 13th of November. This is the expansion we’ve all been waiting for, climbing the ranks to level 70 so we can enjoy all the fresh new content, preparing ourselves for Dark Knight status.
If you’re in [...]

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Tags: Blizzard · Industry News · MMO · Press Release

Smart Business Choices During Economic Downturns

November 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Many game studios are being dropped following a bit of an economic downturn in the United States and globally. Activision has to deal with being agile enough to survive the economic times like anyone else and has dropped a few games that had great potential.
Gamers continue to ask the question, “why?” when some of their [...]

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Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Editorial · Industry News · electronic arts

38 Studios Pulls EA and Blizzard Talent

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Formerly Green Monster Games, 38 Studios is growing a large pool of talented folks for their MMO endeavor. First, we heard R.A. Salvatore (writer of the Dark Elf series) was heading over to work on a story, art direction by Todd McFarlane (creator of Spawn) and now Irena Pereira from Blizzard and a sound designer, [...]

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Tags: Blizzard · Industry News · MMO · Press Release · electronic arts

Game Publishers Hate Risk

October 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Join the forum discussion on this post - (3) PostsIt’s clear publishers like Electronic Arts hate to take risks on video games. They’re not alone in their opinion, look how many sequels we’ve got for the holidays compared to new creative titles like Little Big Planet, or how publishers push out sequels to hot [...]

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Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Editorial · electronic arts

Battle.Net To Stop Piracy For Diablo 3

October 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsWho needs DRM when you’ve got battle.net? Blizzard believes they can authenticate legitimate users by stopping pirates from playing Diablo 3 online using their network service Battle.net. They’re saying the system is more like Steam than like EA’s solution of lock down methods using SecuROM.
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Tags: Blizzard · DRM · Diablo 3

Echos of Doom Is Alive!

October 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsAlthough we reported the latest 3.0.2 World of Warcraft patch Live yesterday, we weren’t considering the sheer amount of gamers that would be jumping on to try all the new content. Honestly, the realms were up and down for hours - more down than up [...]

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World of Warcraft 3.0.2 Update - Live!

October 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsEcho’s of Doom will be live when the systems come back for maintenance. WorldofWarcraft.com was down for a bit today, probably to revamp and push the Lich King messages (which now splash the homepage prior to landing).
This patch brings a crap ton of content to [...]

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