Tag archive: WarCraft

Variety has said the director Sam Raimi has signed to direct a movie version of World of Warcraft. However, it will have to wait until he finishes work on Spiderman 4, which isn’t due in theaters until next year. Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, said: “Warcraft is emblematic of the kind of branded, event films for which our studio is best known,” while Raimi added, “At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic,… Read More

You knew World of Warcraft (WoW) was big, but you probably never suspected just how big. But it has over 10 million subscribers and over $1.3 billion in revenue annually, and, according to a new list published by Develop magazine, those figures make Blizzard, the company behind the game, the world’s most bankable games studio, ahead of giants like Nintendo and Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar North. Develop based its ranking on… Read More

Blizzard Entertainment has officially launched World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion pack for its popular World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). And if you couldn't get ahold of your nearest and dearest WoW-playing friends last night, it's probably because they were in line waiting for the first copies to go on sale at midnight local time…then rushing home to… Read More

World of Warcraft may have dropped out of headlines when the public at large grew tired of tales of addiction and excess, but its fan base has never stopped growing. On Tuesday, Blizzard announced that the game now boasts 10 million subscribers worldwide. It was only a little more than a year ago, in September 2006, that Blizzard announced Warcraft membership had spiked to 7 million, indicating that subscriber growth for the company… Read More

Computer maker Dell has been known to make special appeals to gamers before, what wit introducing gaming-centric systems in its high-end XPS line and then buying boutique computer maker Alienware, known for cranking out systems designed to dominate LAN parties. But Dell's latest move not only targets gamers, it specifically targets World of Warcraft fans: a new edition of Dell's XPS 1730 notebook not only comes with custom World… Read More

If World of Warcraft is your favorite online addiction you can now feed the need even more via credit. Blizzard Entertainment, makers of this popular Internet video game, have announced a partnership with First National Bank of Omaha for a new World of Warcraft Visa Rewards credit card. The World of Warcraft Visa Rewards card will be available in 13 different designs, according to Blizzard. These designs include all ten playable character… 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

Just last year, Blizzard Entertainment crowed that it's massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft had topped one million subscribers. Now, according to the New York Times, World of Warcraft has reached another milestone: some 7 million players worldwide, putting the company on track to pull in more than $1 billion in 2006 alone. Most WoW subscribers pay about $14 a month to participate in the game.… 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

“Massively multiplayer title World of Warcraft appears to have become a victim of its own success, with developer Blizzard forced to apologise as serious server problems continue to prevent many users from accessing the game. As many as a quarter of the World of Warcraft servers for North America were reportedly down over the past weekend, following a day-long scheduled outage on Thursday which was meant to fix previous… 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

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