If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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 [...]
Trials of a World of Warcraft Player: Entry Five
November 18th, 2008 · No Comments
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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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 [...]
Tags: Blizzard · DRM · Diablo 3
TD Gaming Podcast 88: We Love Carebear Servers
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsThis weeks gaming podcast covers a bunch of hot topics along with a bit of gaming history. We take a flashback look at Tapper, a great arcade classic and we’ll hit up some popular news articles:
Microsoft Not Happy About 360 Defects Article
Spore DRM, Torrenting is [...]
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Beta: Wrath of the Lich King - Initial Reaction
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments
The long awaited Wrath of the Lich King is here! By long awaited, really, I mean, I waited a long time to get patch after patch of the next expansion to Blizzards best of MMORPG. Although I don’t know the architecture to creating the patches, it seems so dated in methodology. Why must I download [...]
Tags: Blizzard · Editorial · Preview · world of warcraft
Trials of a World of Warcraft Player: Entry Four
September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts“Beta”
The second letter of the Greek alphabet, also holds a value of “2.” Beta, in the gaming and general computer industry is a time where people are, usually, invited into a product prior to launch to test the product under the assumptions that “it’s not [...]
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Trials of a World of Warcraft Player: Entry Three
September 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts“Gold Rush”
It’s amazing how economies thrive on virtual worlds like Azeroth. One can buy and sell wares at an auction house to bring in money and spend money. Unfortunately, on my return back to Azeroth after a large siesta from the virtual world, many things [...]
Tags: Editorial · MMO · Trials of a World of Warcraft Player · world of warcraft
Starcraft 2: A 2009 Release Schedule
September 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
If you thought you’d be getting a release of Starcraft 2 for the holiday of 2008 you’ll be upset at the news. The heavily awaited RTS title Starcraft 2 will be arriving sometime in 2009. The original title arrived in 1998 but we’re not going to see the first sequel until sometime next year, amazing [...]
Tags: Activision · Blizzard · Industry News · starcraft
Diablo 3 Content Creation Phase
August 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Now that Blizzard feels their engine is solid, it’s time to move on to creating content for the full game. Jay Wilson, Diablo 3’s lead designer, says the game engine is in an advance stage of completion and much of the art team has moved onto Act 2. Don’t read into that, he said game [...]
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Activision Blizzard Trying To Scare Off Competition?
August 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
A few months ago, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said investing $500 million to a billion still wouldn’t be enough to compete with an MMORPG like World of Warcraft. The MMORPG space is a costly investment and you’d need to really burn a lot of money to start competing against the mega-giant, but Mythic VP [...]
Tags: Editorial · MMO · Warhammer Online · world of warcraft



