New is not always better. World of Warcraft‘s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, took the world by storm and sold record numbers of copies only to see a gigantic dip in subscriptions months later. Gamers, fed up with Cataclysm, were eager to finally get it out of the way, shoving it onto the back burner [...]
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World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Subscribers
World of Warcraft lost 1.3 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, Activision Blizzard announced in a first quarter earnings report. Despite the amount of dropped subscriptions, the game is still the number one subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in the world. As of March, World of Warcraft has 8.3 million subscribers, [...]
Diablo 3 for PS3 Now Available for Preorder
Blizzard announced that the PlayStation 3 version of Diablo 3 is now available for pre-order. After taking the stage at Sony’s PlayStation 4 event in February, Chris Metzen, senior vice president of story and franchise development for Blizzard, announced the company’s hit PC game would be making the transition to PS3 and PS4. Metzen said Diablo 3 [...]
World of Warcraft Patch 5.3 Preview
On the public-test-realms now, World of Warcraft patch 5.3 is a story, balance and solo (or small-group) content patch. Some of the data has already begun pre-downloading on the Background Downloader for the live servers, so the patch is likely only a few weeks away now. Besides the reduction in the number of Lesser Charms [...]
Blizzard Purchases IGN Pro League
Blizzard has acquired IGN Pro League (IPL) technology and assets from IGN, the game developer and publisher announced. Members of the IPL staff will be brought on board by Blizzard to form a new team based in San Francisco that will focus on creating high-quality web and mobile content to support Blizzard’s games, which include StarCraft 2, [...]
BlizzCon Tickets to Be Available This Month
Blizzard will sell tickets to this year’s BlizzCon in two batches on April 24 and April 27, the company announced. A limited number of tickets will also be available for a pre-BlizzCon dinner to benefit Children’s Hospital of Orange County starting on May 1. BlizzCon is a two-day gathering focused on the work of Blizzard, [...]
DRM: The Deadliest Acronym
Digital Rights Management (DRM). The three words in the English language that get gamers fired up. With such spectacular debacles in game releases like Blizzard‘s Diablo III (error and disconnects) and most recently Electronic Arts‘ SimCity (same thing). The never ending war between pirates and video game companies leaves many innocent gamers caught in the [...]
Sam “Samwise” Didier Discusses Everything Blizzard
Sam “Samwise” Didier has been an Art Director at Blizzard Entertainment since 1991 and is responsible for creating and directing the artwork for all franchises that the company has produced, including StarCraft, WarCraft and Diablo. He remains a popular figure in the video game industry and has a reputation with Blizzard fans as being a [...]
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (PC) Review
Over two years after the release of the critically acclaimed Real Time Strategy (RTS) game Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, it’s first expansion: Heart of the Swarm has finally been released. Heart of the Swarm (HotS) picks up shortly after the events of Wings of Liberty and centers around Kerrigan and her struggle to assimilate [...]
Heart of the Swarm Release Party Pictures and Report
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is the expansion pack released by Blizzard Entertainment on March 12, 2013 with release party events taking place worldwide. Gaming Illustrated attended the event at The Spectrum in Irvine, California, just miles away from Blizzard’s main campus. Heart of the Swarm follows up on Wings of Liberty and follows [...]
