Tag archive: Mike Morhaime

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack for its popular World of Warcraft massively online multiplayer role-playing game will land at North American retailers November 13. Folks in other markets won't have to wait very long to get their hands on the game, though: Europe, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Russia are also scheduled to get the expansion pack the 13th, with Australia, New Zealand,… Read More

Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind the remarkably popular World of Warcraft online game, has announcedthat it will hold a new competition – a tournament, if you will.   According to Vnunet, special “realms” will be created for thecompetition, meaning users will be able to create customized level-70 characters who have top-level equipment. The focus will evidently be on tactics.   The tournament will get… Read More

Before an audience of over 8,000 gamers at the company's BlizzCon game festival, Blizzard Entertainment announced that the next expansion pack for its wildly popular World of Warcraft MMORPG will the The Wrath of The Lich King, opening up a new continent to intrepid players, adding new features to the game, and bringing well-known characters from the company's Warcraft game franchise to the online world. “This expansion… Read More

The pool of World of Warcraft diehards just keeps getting bigger. Although the game is going on three years old, it has only become more popular with time: Blizzard reported Tuesday that the game now has 9 million subscribers worldwide. To lend some perspective, that’s greater than the population of all five boroughs of New York City (8.2 million as of 2006), and right about equal with the population of Sweden (9 million as of 2004).… Read More

Think those folks who play the World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online role-playing game until all hours of the morning are weird, sure, but not exactly threatening because, like, there can't be that many of them? Think again: Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade has set a new one-day sales record for a PC game in North America and Europe, having sold nearly 2.4 million copies in its… Read More

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the much-anticipated The Burning Crusade expansion to its popular World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) will ship in January, 2007, rather than in time for the 2006 end-of-year holidays. The expansion pack adds new races and territories to the online game, as well as enables players to create more powerful characters. Blizzard plans to use the delay to… Read More

Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo fans get ready! Your favorite computer game development company Blizzard is getting geared up to host the inaugural BlizzCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 28-29. This convention, according to the company, is to celebrate the successes of these three gaming franchises by honoring the fans which have made them so popular. At BlizzCon, gamers will be able to attend numerous… Read More

Building on its record-breaking debuts in North America, Korea, and Europe, “World of Warcraft” has reached global peak concurrency – the number of subscribers playing at the same time in each market – of more than 500,000 players. “All of us at Blizzard are extremely gratified and amazed at the international demand for 'World of Warcraft,'” said Mike Morhaime, president of Blizzard… Read More

The fastest-growing massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) has also shattered all previous concurrency records in North America, achieving over 200,000 simultaneous players duringthe holiday period. “The public's response to World of Warcraft has been simply amazing,” said Mike Morhaime, president of Blizzard Entertainment. “We are very proud and excited to see such an overwhelming demand for the game,… Read More

World of Warcraft, the company's subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), sold through to over 240,000 customers at retailers in North America on Tuesday, November23, selling more in its first 24 hours than any other PC game in history. In addition to shattering sales records, World of Warcraft also broke peak concurrency and account creation records for a MMORPG. Within the first day, over 200,000… Read More

Today, Blizzard confirmed a long feared rumor. The developer's highly anticipated title, StarCraft: Ghost, will not see store shelves this year. In an announcement released late this afternoon, the developer stated “plans to expand and evolve the design of its upcoming tactical-action console game” and “further details regarding specific gameplay enhancements and worldwide-release information will be announced at a… Read More

The Frozen Throne has been on sale for just over a month. Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime said the firm was “very excited” about the demand for the strategy title, which provides a new chapter in the saga and lets players revisit the war-torn world of Azeroth. “We put a lot of effort into giving players more of everything that WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos offered, in addition to a host of new features, and… Read More