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Entries Tagged as 'Blizzard'

Blizzard Offering Free Trial of Auction House App

May 7th, 2011 · 2 Comments

There are many World of Warcraft players who basically play half their game in the auction house. I personally know of a gamer who has made thousands of gold pieces buying and selling there (*cough* Derrick). The only problem these people have is that they only have so many hours in the day to log in [...]

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Tags: Blizzard · iPad · iPhone · MMO · world of warcraft

Gaming Podcast 210: Meretzky Ruined Our Lives

February 16th, 2011 · 7 Comments

This week we’re flashing back to Grim Fandango and looking back at developer Steve Meretzky and his destruction of our lives in the social gaming space. We’ve got other news this week which includes: Activision Kills Guitar Hero Blizzard Wants to Release Diablo III This Year Crysis 2 and Killzone 3 Leaked On BitTorrent CliffyB [...]

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Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Diablo 3 · Episode · Guitar Hero · piracy · Podcast · Show Notes

Gaming Podcast 153: Shadow Man

December 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments

This 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 works? Blizzard is not anti-console Carl Icahn Buys more [...]

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Tags: Blizzard · blu-ray · Podcast · Show Notes

Gaming Podcast 136: The Wumpus Episode

August 25th, 2009 · 7 Comments

This 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 taking a little time to remember the man behind [...]

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Tags: Blizzard · Episode · Podcast · Show Notes · world of warcraft

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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Tags: Activision · Blizzard · world of warcraft

Trials of a World of Warcraft Player: Entry Five

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

“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 friends to play along. It only took a few [...]

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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

In 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 not going to be easy. With Lich King arriving, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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 · electronic arts · Industry News · MMO · Press Release