Alpha-build UI Five years ago today, Blizzard unleashed the World of Warcraft , a scourge that went on to ruin countless lives and make venture capitalists around the globe throw millions at any monkey with an MMO idea. The game has sold beyond 8.6 million units in the US and that's not even accounting for the millions of players happily handing over $15 a month for an Azeroth fix. The full cultural...
Welcome back to The Queue , WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco be your host today. Happy fifth anniversary , everyone! In honor of such a prestigious age for our young upstart MMO, this edition of the Queue ... has ... well, basically nothing to do with the anniversary at all. I mean, it's not as if you guys asked any...
With Blizzard focusing on the World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm, and the long-awaited StarCraft II, Diablo III has taken the backseat and will n...
More Cataclysm footage is trickling onto the internet from IgroMir 2009 , Russia's huge gaming convention, and there was a beautifully clear (well, compared to what we usually see) video of early Goblin gameplay that merited some attention here. I have to confess; I wasn't initially enthusiastic about Blizzard's choice for a new Horde race, even if Goblins do make sense from a lore perspective . But...
Filed under: World of Warcraft , Fantasy , Screenshots , One Shots As time winds down before the reset coming in Cataclysm , many World of Warcraft players are working their way through all the raid content, including Ulduar. For those who have never wandered into this particular dungeon, we have this great World of Warcraft screenshot from Deadend on the Exodar server. This is the bullet train that...
News Sources wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptFiled under: RPG , Diablo III Blizzard is currently targeting the release of StarCraft II for the first half of 2010 and their next World of Warcraft expansion pack, Cataclysm , is due out sometime in 2010 as well. But what about Diablo III [...]
I touched on Blizzard's presence at IgroMir 2009, sort of the Russian E3, a bit previously, specifically about J. Allen Brack's panel regarding guild progression and leveling in Cataclysm . Of course, I had to Google-translate the panel from Russian ( nyet , I do not know Russian, comrades), and not everything Blizzard-related from the whole convention was in the recaps I read. Thankfully, Blizzard...
Welcome back to The Queue , WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today. Guys, you're driving me crazy here. As part of my spiritual promotion to Junior Queue Guy I pick up The Queue on Fridays now and that means I scour Thursday's Queue for questions to answer. You'd think, with one hundred comments on...
My goal is to eventually build this position until it represents 20% of my personal portfolio. Here are 10 reasons for making Activision Blizzard a core holding.Activision released the highly anticipated game Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2 and racked up $310 million in sales from the U.S. and United Kingdom over a 24 hour period. With Christmas right around the corner, the final sales numbers for...
Welcome back to The Queue , WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today. The Queue is a bit short today, and rather than giving you reasons why, I'm going to leave it up to you guys to create wild and zany reasons for it. Was Alex writing The Queue while on fire and ran out of burnable flesh? Was Alex...
Technically I am subscribed to both Lord of the Rings Online and World of Warcraft, only that the LotRO subscription is the "lifetime" deal. So I should be playing both games, and I should be equally interested in both both upcoming expansions, LotRO's Siege of Mirkwood coming out in two weeks, and WoW's Cataclysm coming out next year. But in reality I'm highly excited about Cataclysm, while...
Blizzard finally set it straight on when and what are going to be release next year for their line up. Battle.Net, Starcraft II, and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is set for their line up for next year, but what about Diablo III?
Welcome back to The Queue , WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today. I was up so late at the local Irish redneck bar's karaoke contest -- I'm in the finals next Thursday, for singing Fiona Apple's "Criminal", booyah -- that I pretty much forgot I was supposed to write The Queue today. I tried...
November 13, 2009 6:00 AM During a recent presentation in New York Activision Blizzard CFO Thomas Tippl revealed release date plans for its upcoming games and expansions. StarCraft II , an updated Battle.net, and WoW: Cataclysm are planned for 2010 releases while Diablo III , the unannounced MMO, and further StarCraft 2 expansions are slated for the "next few years." While StarCraft II,...
Blizzard's 2010 is StarCraft II and Cataclysm. Kotaku has secured an actual photograph of the rarest beast in gaming - a Blizzard release schedule. The slide, from a presentation by Activision Blizzard chief finance officer Thomas Tippl, has StarCraft II, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and the upgraded Battle.net down for 2010 launches. Diablo III, Blizzard's unannounced MMO, and "StarCraft Expansion"...
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