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GameStop Claims Triumph Over Recession, Holidays Sales Up 22%
New video game software sales were outstanding, growing 23.5% with many titles selling in record numbers. The top five video games sold during the holiday period were Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War and Guitar Hero World Tour, Microsoft’s Gears of War 2, Blizzard Entertainment’s...
Yesterday
A Look Inside China's Game Addiction Treatment Centers [Internet Addiction]
If internet addiction and, as an offshoot, gaming addiction ever does get it's own classification I can see it eventually leading to legal issues for developers like Blizzard. If gameplay is considered addictive and harmful, what sorts of moral obligations do developers have to not add...
Logitech's Color-LCD Sporting Keyboard, New Mouse and Headphones [Consumer Electronics Show 2009]
The G19 keyboard features a tiltable 320-by-240 pixel color GamePanel LCD that can display in-game details from more than 60 games. Yes, including World of Warcraft. The display can also show computer details, void data and even pictures or videos. The keyboard also includes 12 programma...
Friday, Jan 2
Metacritic's Best And Worst of 2008 [Metacritic]
Dud Homie Rollerz PC 1. Fallout 3 2. Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor 3. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 4. Grand Theft Auto IV 5. World of Goo
Tuesday, Dec 30
Vikings' Punter Considers Changing His Name To 'World Of Warcraft' [Nfl]
Back when [Bengals receiver] Chad Johnson changed his name to Ocho Cinco, I told the guys at 93X that I was going to change my name to Chris 'World of Warcraft' " Kluwe said. "They said that's too long. So they started calling me Chris 'Warcraft.' I could make a lot of money if I changed my name to th...
Kotaku's Game of the Year Nominations
Sound: Brian Crecente: LittleBigPlanet, Mushroom Men: Spore Wars, Dead Space Brian Ashcraft: Echochrome, Rhythm Heaven, Metal Gear Solid 4 Mike McWhertor: Rock Band 2, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead Mike Fahey: Persona 4, Prince Of Persia, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
IBM: World of Warcraft Is Good [Blizzard]
It's a seesaw. Somedays playing World of Warcraft is good, good, good. Somedays it's bad, bad, bad. What about today? Today, David Laux, global executive in charge of games and interactive entertainment at IBM, tells us that WoW makes good human beings. This is in the wake of job recruiters av...
Monday, Dec 29
Play World Of Warcraft Free For The Rest Of Your/Its Life [WoW]
If you donate $25 or more to the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Society, you'll be in the running to score a free lifetime pass for the game, courtesy of Blizzard employee Katherine Allen, who's running an online fundraiser for the group. That means no more money spent on WoW subscriptions. Ever.
Worlds.com Files Suit Against NCsoft - Every Other MMO Company To Follow? [When Virtual Worlds Collide]
The patent at question is 7,181,690, "System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space", which was file in August of 2000 and finally issued in February of last year. Reading over the patent, it basically covers the client/server-based system every single MMO on the mar...
Saturday, Dec 27
Kotaku Originals: A Decemberween Pageant [Kotaku Originals]
Podcasts: Resistance 2 Podcast: Multiplayer Tweaks Coming A Very Special Kotaku Holiday Podcast Reviews: World Of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse Review: Single-Minded Excellence SimCity iPhone Micro-Review: Reticulating iPhones Hero of Sparta Micro Review: God of iPhone?
Friday, Dec 26
Singapore Recruiters Not Avoiding WoW Players [Massively Multiplayer Employment]
A story last week recalled an incident involving job recruiters purposely avoiding World of Warcraft players due to their potential negligence. This is not a problem in Singapore, however, as GMP Group — a recruiting firm — has reportedly not had any clients turn down WoW playing candida...
Amazon.Ca Doles Out Boxing Day Game Savings [Happy Boxing Day]
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (vf - French game-play) - CDN$ 27.99 (Reg. CDN$ 42.99) Gameboy Advance Nintendo DS Disgaea DS - CDN$ 19.99 (Reg. CDN$ 29.99) Draglade - CDN$ 12.99 (Reg. CDN$ 29.99) Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time - CDN$ 24.99 (Reg. CDN$ 39.99)
Former WoW Developes Still Won't Tell Us What They're Working On [Mmo]
Back in '05, a bunch of former World of Warcraft developers left Blizzard to form their own studio, Red 5. Which cuts dangerously close to my own choice of studio name, Red Six. Anyway, that was,...
Thursday, Dec 25
Metacritic's 10 Best, Worst Games Of 2008 [Best Of 2008]
8. Fallout 3 (93 — 360, 92 — PS3, 92 — PC / AVERAGE: 92) and Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Armor (92 — PC) 9. Rock Band 2 (92 — 360, 91 — PS3 / AVERAGE: 91.5) 10. God of War: Chains of Olympus (91 — PSP) and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (91 — PC)
Great-father Winter Delivers Exploding RC Cars To Azeroth
I currently have WoW running in the background, and all I can hear is exploding cars and the odd fit of laughter generated by those damn Wands of Holiday Cheer they keep putting under the tree every year. Oh good...now someone's put down the toy train that makes people do the train noise. My sugges...
Tuesday, Dec 23
A White Elephant Christmas [Note]
Another Sibling Stabbing Over Who Got Next PuzzleQuest Hits iPhone With a Trilogy Twist Watch The First Shaky-Cam Minutes Of Killzone 2 RC Remote Hack Uses Balance Board, Wii Remote, iPhone As Controllers World Of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse Review: Single-Minded Excellence
World Of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse Review: Single-Minded Excellence
The World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse. was co-developed by Steel Series and Blizzard, manufactured by Steel Series. Retails for $99.99. Used mouse as PC mouse for a week, played countless hours of World of Warcraft during testing period, creating multiple profiles.
WoW Reaches 11.5 Million...Wait, We're Counting Halves Now?
IRVINE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is now played by more than 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. This new high was reached fol...
The Great International Online Gaming Awards Caper [Online Gaming]
World of Warcraft took out the "Best RPG" award, probably the most important of the night, but other winners include Counter-Strike Source, City of Heroes, FIFA 09, Eve Online and Kartrider. 2008 Global Online Game Awards Topped By WoW, Kartrider [Gamasutra]
Thursday, Dec 18
At Least 28 Video Game Movies In Production [Video Game Movies]
Clock Tower (2009) Halo (2009) Kane & Lynch (2009) The Legend of Spyro (2009) Metal Gear Solid (2009) Onimusha (2009) Sabotage 1943 (2009) Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) Spy Hunter (2009) The Suffering (2009) Tekken (2009 Warcraft (2009)/World of Warcraft (2011)
Monday, Dec 15
Job Recruiters Instructed To Avoid WoW Players [Massively Multiplayer Employment]
He replied that employers specifically instruct him not to send them World of Warcraft players. He said there is a belief that WoW players cannot give 100% because their focus is elsewhere, their sleeping patterns are often not great, etc. I mentioned that some people have written about MM...
PC Sales Charts [Sales Charts]
NPD Sales Charts November 30 - December 6 [via Shacknews] 1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 2. Spore 3. The Sims 2 Deluxe 4. Call Of Duty: World At War 5. Fallout 3 6. The Sims 2 Apartment Life 7. Grand Theft Auto IV 8. Left 4 Dead 9. Far Cry 2 10. The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff
New World Of Warcraft Figures For Your Purchasing Pleasure [WoW]
Nobody plays WoW, right? It's a niche title. No idea why DC Direct continue to try and market World of Warcraft figures, as though there was a willing audience of millions for them.
Thursday, Dec 4
Wrath Of The Lich King Review: We Come From The Land Of The Ice And Snow
Last month, the World of Azeroth got a great deal larger as Blizzard released the second expansion for World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King. Wrath of the Lich King does what an MMORPG expansion should, adding tons of new content and refreshing the sense of wonder that drew players to Wor...
Friday, Nov 14
Composing The Soundtrack To Blizzard's World
Put together by the team behind the popular Eminence concert series, Echoes of War is, as the name suggests, the soundtrack to Blizzard Entertainment. Not the soundtrack to a single game. The soundtrack to the developer, and (almost) all the game’s they’ve ever put out. Warcraft. World of Wa...
Monday, Nov 10
Best Buy New York Lich King Bash - Now With Morhaime
With more than 11 million subscribers, World of Warcraft is the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game in the world. Wrath of the Lich King is the game’s second expansion. For more information on the game visit www.WorldofWarcraft.com.
Tuesday, Oct 28
WoW Gamer Stabs Friend, Nearly Cuts Off Finger
The university student was at a friend’s home last night with four friends playing World of Warcraft when the fight started. The student told the court that the fight was spurred by an argument about the volume of the other man’s computer.
Friday, Oct 24
EA, LucasArts Have Sights Set On WoW's Userbase [The Old Republic]
“When World of Warcraft came out, everybody thought, ‘No, the market is only this big, because that’s as big as EverQuest was.’ Blizzard showed that it could be much larger. Our goal is to show that by bringing storytelling to the genre that we can attract an even wider audience. Plus, we have t...
Wednesday, Oct 22
Star Wars: The Old Republic – What We Know So Far
The bottom line is that BioWare knows what makes an MMO good – they’ve played World of Warcraft, they’ve at least heard of Warhammer (y’know, being a new EA partner and all). They want to put the stuff in there that will attract MMO gamers.
Monday, Oct 20
Mila Kunis *Hearts* World of Warcraft
The problem is, if anyone plays Warcraft... I'm really good, I'm a really kick ass Mage... We'll you're your own person and you can get into a guild... You gotta be in a guild, because you gotta do raids that require thirty or forty people. But now with the expansion pack, they're gonna have raids that re...
Sunday, Oct 19
Dr. Phil Tackles Game Addiction
Dr. Phil loves the video games, or rather the amount of attention gamers give him when he talks about them. In today's episode he tackles the dangers of computer game addiction, with the entire show dedicated to people who play games when they probably shouldn't be. The show starts with a virt...
Friday, Oct 17
World Of Warcraft Movie Isn't Dead
It's been years since we first heard of Blizzard's plans to make a movie out of WoW. In that time a bunch of game movies have come, disappointed and faded away, and still we have no WoW movie. So what's the deal? Has it been Starcraft Ghosted? Nope. Turns out the project's just been moving along at...
Tuesday, Oct 14
SteelSeries' WoW Mouse Isn't Screwing Around
SteelSeries doesn't screw around when it comes to making computer gaming peripherals. At BlizzCon 2008 this past weekend they unveiled a World of Warcraft branded gaming mouse that could very well be the most feature-packed pointing device I've ever laid my hands on. The World of Warcraf...
Monday, Oct 13
Blizzcon 2008 Round-Up [BlizzCon 2008]
Diablo III Playable On BlizzCon Floor, New Class Reveal Inside The BlizzCon 08 Swag Bag Diablo III's Third Class - The Wizard! StarCraft II Single Player Is A Trilogy! The Best Of Blizzard - Retro Arcade The Obligatory BlizzCon 2008 Cosplay Post World Of Warcraft: The Bean Bag Game
World Of Warcraft: The Bean Bag Game [BlizzCon 2008]
The foks at J!nx are absolutely brilliant. Wanting to bring something other than hats, shirts, and gurgling murlocs to the BlizzCon 2008 party, they've come up with a way to combine all the competition of a PVP arena with the carnival fun of tossing bean bags through holes, the J!nx PVP Aren...
Tuesday, Sep 23
Resistance 2 Brings MMO Sensibilities to the World of Shooter Coop
Topping all of that off, Price said, is an upcoming community portal which will include live game stats and some things other game portal sites haven't done before. On first blush the mode looks an awful lot like a World of Warcraft instance, but without the loot. A group of eight huddle aroun...
Monday, Sep 15
Wrath of the Lich King Officially Dated, Priced; Collector's Edition Detailed
We're looking forward to launching Wrath of the Lich King and finally giving World of Warcraft players a chance to take on Arthas and his minions," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Until then, we'll continue to refine and playtest the expansion content t...
Monday, Aug 25
StarCraft II: Hands-On With The Zerg
Blizzard's set up at Games Convention this year was identical to the last — one half dedicated to World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the other to StarCraft II. What had changed, rather dramatically, was how StarCraft II played, with massively rebalanced Terran and Protoss forces,...
Friday, Aug 22
Opinion: Runes Of Magic - More Than A WoW Clone
Dynamic Dungeons: Certain dungeons in Runes of Magic will be dynamically generated, meaning that you will go inside and gain treasures, come out, and the next time you enter the dungeon layout and treasures have completely changed.
Thursday, Aug 14
WoW Gold Site Advertises With Gnome Corpses
In the cutthroat world of World of Warcraft gold sales, a company has to try pretty hard to stand out, especially in the face of companies like IGE. I suppose we at least have to give MMOInn.com credit for originality following the herd. A reader name Joe logged into Ironforge this morning to be...
Wednesday, Aug 13
BlizzCon 08 Panels Announced, Expect New Diablo III Classes There
Diablo III Class Design StarCraft II Gameplay StarCraft Lore StarCraft II Art World of Warcraft Class Design World of Warcraft PvP World of Warcraft Art World of Warcraft Dungeons & Raids World of Warcraft UI and Mods Blizzard Cinematics Blizzard Sound and Music
Friday, Aug 8
WoW Celebrates The Olympics - New Tabard, Pet
From now until August 25th, anyone who participates in a full battleground will receive the nifty ring-themed tabard. The pet, modeled after Olympic dragon mascot Sooty the Air Pollution Dragon, who I just made up, is randomly awarded to players who are on the winning team of a battlegrou...
Thursday, Jul 31
Gigantique Sacks and Lovin' On Squirrels: All About WoW Achievements
We now know that World of Warcraft will get achievements added in when the Wrath of the Lich King expansion comes, and when we sat down with Blizzard today we got to discuss them, learning about some of the kinds of actions and behaviors that will earn you those achievements.
Wednesday, Jul 30
Warhammer Online System Requirements Revealed
So how much will World of Warcraft players have to upgrade their systems to make good on their threats of leaving the game as soon as Warhammer Online comes out? Seeing as WoW has been designed to run on an Intel Generictron processor with crap megs of ram, quite a bit, though the requirement...
Sunday, Jul 20
Insider Describes the World of Sony's MAG
“When they were describing it, it kept reminding me of Alterac Valley from World of Warcraft, if you are familiar,” Orange said. “What happens is: You get points for contributing with your troop/overall team. If you happen to win or do better than the rest of your team, you get more points. So t...
Thursday, Jul 17
Free Realms - The Best MMO At E3?
I'm not sure if it is a good thing that the best MMO at E3 2008 could be a game aimed at 9-14 year-olds, but I am sure that Sony Online Entertainment's Free Realms is a very good thing indeed. There are plenty of free MMOs aimed at the kid market out there, but they all tend to share certain bad trait...
Thursday, Jul 3
Judge Delivers World Of Warcraft-Inspired Decision
In some ways, perhaps, the world of Mergers and Acquisitions is a massively multiplayer role playing game as well. Like in World of Warcraft and other games, the participants in the M&A field take on certain roles, interact in their own community, hone specialized skills, and even de...
Wednesday, Jul 2
Fallout 3 Producer Disappointed With Diablo III And Starcraft II
I must say I am disappointed that Blizzard has stayed on the conservative side in terms of design with their updates to Diablo and Starcraft. Diablo will be interesting since World of Warcraft has a lot of Diablo-like qualities. I have no doubt, however, that they will be incredibly fun, add...
Monday, Jun 30
The Man Behind Diablo III Talks Plot, Lore and Battle.Net
By: Lesley Smith Diablo III is so in right now. After the unsurprising announcement about Blizzard Entertainment’s latest game, we pinned down man of the moment, lead designer Jay Wilson, down for a chat about the latest installment in the Diablo franchise.
Sunday, Jun 29
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain Level Up
Each member of Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain has an in-game World of Warcraft avatar and the band performed outside Shattrath City during last year's BlizzCon and the band can now be found killing time between gigs within Horde territory in Silvermoon City with their manager. The band w...
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: The Blizzard Museum Show Diablo 3 Concept Art
Ever since the Blizzard Museum opened at Blizzard’s HQ earlier this year, it has captured the attention of fans around the world and in a prominent position on the second floor of the WWI is a scaled down version which not only takes attendees on a trip back into the past, it also offers some h...
Wednesday, Jun 25
World of Warcraft Song Coming To Guitar Hero III [First Crossover Of Many?]
SANTA MONICA, CA – June 25, 2008 – Combining the best selling game of 2007 with the world’s most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Blizzard Entertainment®’s World of Warcraft®, players across the globe will soon be shredding to a free downloadable track for Acti...
Monday, Jun 23
Blizzard Teaser Solved? Not Sure, But Don't Get Your Hopes Up Diablo Fans
When Blizzard started up with the teasing again, plastering the official site with a frosty teaser, Diablo III desperation got the better of a few folks who were interested in having their hopes crushed under the boot of the house that World of Warcraft built. Okay, it didn't build the hous...
Friday, May 9
New Wrath Of The Lich King Details Galore
A press event earlier these week has resulted in a veritable flood of new information regarding the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. Most of the news floating about is regarding the Death Knight hero class, fleshing out the details of the eagerly awaited addit...
Monday, Apr 21
Uwe Boll Wanted To Do A WoW Movie, Blizzard Said No, Thanks
Uwe Boll likes games. Likes making movies based on games. Likes making movies based on games involving swords, castles and magic. Guy's got a track record. So Uwe Boll making the World of Warcraft movie, it just fits, right? Did for Boll. Didn't for Blizzard. Boll says: I got in contact with Paul S...
Sunday, Jul 29
Opinion: Academics Like Online Gaming, Too!
According to the BBC, a new review in the journal Science shows that some academics (those wacky social scientists, to be precise) are turning to online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life as a low-cost alternative to real-life studies in a world where spendy grants are increasi...
Tuesday, Jul 24
Big Money: Joel Johnson's Guide To WoW Wealth
Don't hand your credit card over to some shady, overseas gold farming fly-by-night company. If you need gold and need it now, invest in Joel Johnson. His handy gold making tips can turn any World of Warcraft noob into an Auction House expert. In just four simple steps (give or take) and ten minu...
Friday, Jul 6
WoW: 2 People, 47 PCs, 46 WoW Accounts, No Life
You've surely heard of World of Warcraft players shunning work, family, responsibility, and drinking water for the love of the game, but if you're not up on your "dual-boxing" as I was, keep reading. Dual-boxing is act of controlling two characters in an MMO simultaneously. Of course, the...
Wednesday, May 23
WoW: Blizzard Makes Boy's Dream Come True
Fifth-grader Ezra Chatteron was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. While in the hospital, he only wanted to play World of Warcraft. It's his escape. Last fall, his father's house burned down, and insurance money was used to purchase a computer and internet access. Father-and-...
Monday, Jan 22
Blizzard Drops Hints On Next MMO, WoW Flick
First up, what's on deck for the MMO game? Bassat is cryptic, in the typical Blizz fashion: When we announce our next MMORPG it's not going to be another WoW - we're not a company that tends to tread the same ground. It'll be something innovative and new that really brings entertainment to ano...
Wednesday, Dec 27
Podcast: World Of Warcraft: Happy Holidays from Blizzard
The folks over at Blizzard Entertainment put together this funny little podcast that is supposed to be a talent search for the World of Warcraft's "Twas the Night Before Wintervale." Besides plenty of WoW jokes and silliness there's also a couple of murloc carols and, finally, the finish...
Friday, Jul 28
WoW: Film Your Own Elf Porn, Win Big Prizes
In-game matchmaking software company Xfire is teaming up with Blizzard in a promotional contest for the best World of Warcraft machinima. Grand prize is $23k, which is approximately a 127-year WoW subscription. The objective of the contest is to select the best fan-made movies using Wor...
Tuesday, Jul 4
Opinion: WoW: World of Warcraft Rogue Respec Revealed!
I have a tiny guild of undead rogue gankers on a PvP server that specializes in the assassination of strutting level 60's. We're only in our early 40's, but our technique is very simple: we sneak up behind a confident 60 at a 2:1 ratio. One of us cheap shots him. Then, as he stands there stunned, we...
Monday, Jun 26
Everquest Travels Back In Time
World of Warcraft has single-handedly driven nearly to extinction the entirety of Sony's MMOG empire. Sony's practically giving their MMORPGs away with the Sony Stationpass: Everquest 2, Star Wars Galaxies, Planetside, Everquest, and Matrix Online — all included for a single fee. Tha...
Friday, Jun 23
Opinion: World Of Warcraft: WoW 1.12 - Thrilling New Patch Notes
The new patch seems to focus on PvP, hallelujah, and will address both Battlegrounds and World PvP. Blizzard is all about making things global these days, and hot on the heels of the irritating but effective server-wide Looking For Group channel are the cross-realm battlegrounds.
Saturday, Jan 28
World Of Warcraft: Never Get Lost in Azeroth Again, With Google Maps
As of Sunday morning, I couldn't get the resource locator to work. It had been disabled because of a huge traffic surge from Digg. Can't wait to see it back up. Man, why are they making the WoW addiction so much harder to kick? Map World of Warcraft [Site]
Wednesday, Jul 20
How To: World of Warcraft: Enter the Dupers
Slashdot has word of a newly discovered World of Warcraft explout that lets gamers duplicate their precious digital wares. The big S posts links to photographic evidence of the dupping and a neat little how-to guide for creating mounds of gold.
Wednesday, Nov 3
PC: World of Warcraft Open Beta FAQ
The "Open Beta" for World of Warcraft is expected to start sometime next week, and Blizzard have posted an FAQ for those interested in trying the game before its release later this month. Some highlights: there will be limited slots, you will not have to download through FilePlanet, you mi...
Monday, Nov 1
PC: World of Warcraft Meltdown
The World of Warcraft closed beta test has closed (that makes sense, trust me), and the open beta test begins next week. This week, testers that participated in the closed beta will be shuffled into what is being called a stress test. If you're a FilePlanet subscriber (or are willing to spend...
