Join the forum discussion on this post – (1) PostsThis weeks gaming podcast flashes back to Drakkhan, touches on the history of Infocom and battles some gaming news in a time when gaming news is light. We’re reading some community comments and tackling these difficult headlines: Natal suffering from lag? Another PSP model in the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blizzard'
Gaming Podcast 153: Shadow Man
December 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments
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Gaming Podcast 136: The Wumpus Episode
August 25th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Join the forum discussion on this post – (2) PostsThis week’s gaming podcast is all about energy, excitement and enough Warcraft news to make you want to throw up in your own mouth. However, we sugar coat it with lots of other news, great community comments and we’re flashing back to Age of Empires while [...]
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Almost Three Million Lose Life To Lich King
November 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 sitting at home forgetting to eat their dinner in the first 24-hours of launch. This probably [...]
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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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Blizzard’s Next MMO, In Development
November 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Join the forum discussion on this post – (2) 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 it’s [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 titles [...]
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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. Blizzard [...]



