Tag archive: World of Warcraft

A little update on the status of Diablo III; as expected, a quarter one release is not going to be happening. In fact, don't expect any game releases from Blizzard in the first quarter of this year. The good news is that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says the new year is looking to be a good one for the company, and for consumers as well. “Our extraordinary employees around the world are focused on making 2012 another great year for our… Read More

In what is either a decent insight into the one of the year’s biggest licensed properties, or yet another pot shot at a rival, Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick, has made headlines again. In an interview with Reuters, when asked his opinion on the upcoming MMORPG, Star Wars: the Old Republic, Kotick cast doubts on the financial soundness behind the game: “Lucas is going to be the principal beneficiary of the success of Star… Read More

More than a million players could trade Azeroth for the Galactic Republic, according to a recent survey of World of Warcraft subscribers. The survey polled a relatively small number of Warcraft subscribers (381 people), but found that at least half of them plan to buy the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, and an additional 38 percent of the poll subjects had an interest in checking out the game. The poll results, combined with the recent… Read More

Possibly feeling the pressure from its recent player exodus, World of Warcraft is punching up its promotional campaign… literally. A new television ad for the popular MMO puts Chuck Norris in the role of World of Warcraft pitchman, and offers a peek at what his character would look like if he made the jump from larger-than-life action hero to in-game “hunter.” The commercial features Norris' digital alter ego beating up… Read More

Reported during a recent Activision Blizzard conference call,  the subscriber base of the MMORPG World of Warcraft fell by another 800,000 players over a three month period. This constitutes a much larger decline than the lost 300,000 players that quit the game during the second quarter. The total user base now stands at approximately 10.3 million subscriptions, a large drop from a peak of about 12 million players during October 2010.… Read More

Blizzard Entertainment used its annual BlizzCon fan festival to tease fans of its massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, World of WarCraft, with the latest expansion to Azeroth. Dave Kosak, lead quest designer for World of Warcraft, talks about what’s in store for WoW fans with this latest expansion pack, Mists of Pandaria. “We have the Pandaren race and the Monk class, which lets everybody live out their martial art movie fantasies,” said… Read More

During the opening ceremonies of Blizzcon Friday, Blizzard revealed the fourth expansion pack for the popular World of Warcraft series. Titled World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, the expansion pack allows players to create a new character called the pandaren, a panda bear creature that has training in martial arts. This is a neutral character, thus players can choose to join either the Alliance or the Horde with the pandaren. In addition, a… Read More

A lot of big news has come out of the BlizzCon fan event down in Anaheim, California today, from the new “Heart of the Swarm” trailer to the “Mists of Pandaria” expansion for World of Warcraft. In all that excitement, it's easy to overlook some other equally big news. Head of Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Morhaime, announced that for a limited time players who make a 12 month subscription to World of Warcraft through… Read More

For most video game enthusiasts, the release of Diablo III can’t come quick enough.  Most recently, Blizzard said that it hoped to get the game out in 2011, but did not rule out 2012 being a possibility.  IGN was able to interview Blizzard’s Jay Wilson to talk about the five playable classes in the game.  The classes are Wizard, Demon Hunter, Barbarian, Monk, and Witch Doctor. There are five separate videos, one for each class, so you can pick… Read More

Down about 600,000 players in about seven months during the last report, Blizzard reported another loss in the second quarter. Subtracting another 300,000 players from  the player base, the subscriber base for the World of Warcraft massive multiplayer online game has dropped by nearly one million users in about nine months. This decline may have been slowed by the recent move to convert the game to a free-to-play model. Players can play for an… Read More

Norwegian retailers have opted to cease carrying violent video games in direct response to the July 22 terrorist attacks by Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik. A total of 51 products will be taken off shelves including World of Warcraft and the Call of Duty series. According to the Danish gaming site Gamers Globe, supermarket chain Coop Norden is spearheading the campaign to remove these video games. The actions seem to extend… Read More

The online games space is rapidly evolving. There’s a reason that Blizzard Entertainment recently opened up its World of Warcraft (WoW) massively multiplayer online (MMO) game world for free to anyone who wants to play up to Level 20. The reigning champion of subscription games is feeling the repercussions of a growing wave of free-to-play games from companies like Riot Games, GamersFirst and Turbine.

The king of of pay-to-play massively multiplayer online RPGs is becoming a free-to-play game, kind of. Leaving behind the 14-day free trial promotion it has used to attract new users since its launch in 2004, Activision Blizzard is now allowing gamers play World of Warcraft until they reach level 20. World of Warcraft has always had a 14-day free trial for new users, but Activision Blizzard has, after seven years on the market, lifted the time… Read More

We're 100 percent certain that at least some of you have purposefully locked yourself in a small room filled with nothing but a computer just to submit yourselves to tortuously long gaming binges. Come to think of it, some of you are probably doing that right now. (Haven't we all?) But there's a big difference between a self-imposed gaming marathon, and one forced upon you by greedy prison guards at a Chinese… Read More