Riding on their latest expansion release Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard has announced that the perpetually growing base of the world’s most popular MMO World of Warcraft has now reached 11.5 million subscribers. From the release: Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is now played [...] [...more]
Details on several upcoming Activision/Blizzard titles were announced today during a joint event with in-game advertiser Massive Inc. MTV reports that Call of Duty 6 has officially been titled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and is slated to arrive in fall 2009. Additionally, an in-game shot of Guitar Hero 5 was shown in a demonstration displaying a “Burger [...] [...more]
Blizzard has released a patch for its decade old RTS hit StarCraft. Patch 1.16 offers some optimizations: “[StarCraft] now only uses as much CPU as it needs to run smoothly.” In-game chat (excluding whispers) is now saved in the replays. There’s some bug fixes and the removal of several exploits including Terrans drop-anywhere nukes and some additional Zerg [...] [...more]
Blizzard has brought down the law on their online service Battle.net banning 350,000 hackers from using the StarCraft/Diablo II application. A post on the Battle.net site explains: As part of our continued effort to ensure a fair and fun online experience for all Battle.net players, we have expanded our efforts to remove cheaters from StarCraft and Diablo [...] [...more]
Here’s one of the StarCraft 2 trailers pulled from BlizzCon 2008 showing off some solid gameplay of the RTS. The Terran title, first on the way out, hits shelves in 2009. [...more]
Here is the Diablo III released at BlizzCon featuring the freshly announced Wizard; a pretty girl who can kick ass is always welcome as a playable character I’m sure. The title has yet to be given a release window. [...more]
Blizzard today announced, during its BlizzCon StarCraft II panel, that StarCraft II is being turned into a trilogy. The first game in the trilogy will consist of the Terran campaign, and is currently titled “Terrans: Wings of Liberty.” The second, a Zerg title will be “Zerg: Heart of the Swarm,” and the third game being “Protoss: Legacy [...] [...more]
Blizzard has revealed, through its playable demo of Diablo 3 at Blizzcon, that the Wizard has joined the short list of announced character classes for the upcoming sequel. Joining the previously announced Witch Doctor and Barbarian classes, the Wizard will “manipulate primal forces of the universe to vanquish foes.” In the demo the Wizard begins with a Charged [...] [...more]
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has been awarded $6 million due to MDY Industries’ sales of the MMO Glider software, which allowed players to auto-assign actions and gain expereince while not actively playing the game. A few months back, the court ruled that bot author Michael Donnelly had violated World of Warcraft’s license agreement. Approximately 100,000 copies of the MMO [...] [...more]
Blizzard has at last announced a release date for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the company revealed today that the second expansion pack for the Mega-MMO will hit shelves November 13th. Lich King will pack the frozen continent of Northrend, the Death Knight Hero class, an increase of the level cap from 70 [...] [...more]
