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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Blizzard Announces Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Blizzard Entertainment announced its latest game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. It will release for PC, Mac and iPad. The game was unveiled at a panel held by Blizzard at last week’s PAX East. No definite release date has been announced but it is expected to come out sometime this year. Hearthstone will be a free-to-play strategy card game [...]
World of WarCraft – MoP Update 5.2 Trailer Released
Mists of Pandaria, the highly successful expansion for World of WarCraft, will be seeing a major content update in the form of version 5.2, dubbed ‘Rise of the Thunder King’ and made available to subscribers in the near future. To give fans of the wildly popular MMORPG a taste of things to come, Blizzard Entertainment [...]
World of Warcraft Patch 5.2 Rise of the Thunder King Preview
World of Warcraft‘s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, moves closer to the release of the first major PvE and raid content patch of the expansion, 5.2. This patch, Rise of the Thunder King, is similar to the Sunwell patch in that it provides a new island, the Isle of the Thunder King, with a new [...]
Blizzard Bringing BlizzCon Back in November
Blizzard will host the BlizzCon convention on November 8 and 9 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif., the company announced. The mostly annual event will be back for the seventh time this year after skipping a 2012 show. BlizzCon is a gathering of online gaming communities from Blizzard games including World of Warcraft, [...]
Is Blizzard’s Project Titan Doomed Before Release?
While details about the next Blizzard massive multiplayer online game, Project Titan, are hidden away under lock and key, there is much to speculate about, given the current landscape of the newer MMOs on the market and the highly competitive free to play model. Blizzard has quite a few hurdles to clear if they want [...]
World of Warcraft’s Fight Club: The Brawler’s Guild
Throughout World of Warcraft‘s long life, one of the most common requests on the forums has been single-player dungeons, in which players could solo more of the powerful enemies typically found in such places. Though it might have taken a few years, Blizzard has finally introduced a feature allowing players to take on enemies with [...]
