World of Warcraft has been perched high atop the massively-multiplayer throne for seven years now, but is about to get its first serious dose of competition when the Electronic Arts-published Star Wars: The Old Republic launches. While it’s not really a shock to learn that some folks have already indicated that they’ll be leaving Azeroth for a galaxy far, far away, a new survey indicates that WoW could shed anywhere between 900,000 and 1.6M players Read More ...
Blizzard’s World of Warcraft MMO has shed 1.1 million subscribers in the past six months, the developer has announced. As revealed in an investor call earlier today and reported by Massively, player numbers have fallen 10 per cent to 10.3 million compared to 11.4 million in May this year. CEO Mike Morhaime explained that most of that decline was seen in the East. It’s been a year since the last major expansion, 2010′s Read More ...
Blizzard has made many of the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm dungeons easier with patch 4.06. Oddly though, this goes against Blizzard defending the difficulty of Cataclysm’s Heroic dungeons this week. They said they won’t be made easier, but yet they have been merely days after that statement. The 4.06 patch notes highlight a few other fixes too, with bosses being made easier for more casual players. Also expect some class Read More ...
Blizzard’s internal numbers have confirmed that they have sold 4.7 million copies of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm in one month. That’s more copies in one month than any other PC game. The third WOW expansion had previously broken day-one PC sales records by flogging 3.3 million copies back when it was released last year. Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime said: “We’ve been floored by the community’s response so far, and we’d Read More ...
Blizzard has finally admitted that Titan is real and will be their next MMOG. The game was leaked on a five-year released schedule that resulted in the departure of Blizzard China’s general manager Ye Weilun. Titan is currently down for release in Q4 2013, with a fifth expansion for World of Warcraft scheduled for the same release window. “The media is not supposed to know anything about that,” said Frank Read More ...
Blizzard has confirmed that World of Warcraft Cataclysm has become the world’s fastest-selling PC game. The third WOW expansion has sold 3.3 million copies worldwide on the PC and Mac (combined) in just 24 hours. The world’s fastest selling multi-platform game is Call of Duty: Black Ops, which managed 5.7 million copies in 24 hours. Whoever said that Blizzard needs to get into the console space might be regretting their Read More ...
Activision gave us some great news today just prior to enjoying our holiday weekend. Eric Hirshberg, the newly appointed CEO of the major publisher gave us this quote to chew on. The copies of Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops and even future boxed copies of the popular franchise will never include a subscription charge, the copies that come with a campaign, coop, and online multiplayer. “We will never charge for Read More ...
Blizzard has confirmed that they are suing StarCraft II hackers. They’re going after the authors of the game hacks some dirty cheaters have been using. The developer has filed a suit against three offenders in the Los Angeles District Court. Two of the hackers are from Canada, with the other one living in Peru. Blizzard believes that their cheat programs violate the user licence agreement and Battle.net’s terms of use Read More ...
Details about the bonus DVD in the Collector’s Edition of World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm have been unveiled by the British Board of Film Classification. The bonus DVD features films like “Who is Deathwing?” which is a World of Warcraft retrospective. It has interviews with programmers and a bit on game design. The DVD also includes the Cataclysm intro cinematic and major content patch trailers with director’s commentary. Cataclysm will Read More ...
Activision Blizzard has confirmed that more than 12 million people subscribe to World of Warcraft. The fantasy role-playing MMO has reached thanks to the Chinese launch of Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion for the game. “The support and enthusiasm that gamers across the world continue to show for World of Warcraft reaffirms our belief that it offers one of the best entertainment values available today,” said Blizzard Read More ...
Activision Blizzard has confirmed that World of Warcraft Cataclysm will be released on 7th December. You’ll be able to pick it up on DVD or as a digital download on the Blizzard Store for both PC and Mac. There will also be a Collector’s Edition with some added extras, which will set you back $79.99. Cataclysm is the third expansion for World of Warcraft. It adds the worgen and goblin Read More ...
A few weeks ago, the chaps over at Blizzard released a warning that any cheaters/hackers trying to gain a naughty advantage in StarCraft II will be perma-banned. Today, Blizzard has followed up on that warning and has officially thrown out “suspensions and bans, on over 5,000 StarCraft II players who were in violation of the Battle.net Terms of Use for cheating and/or using hack programs while playing.” Blizzard Entertainment also Read More ...
Blizzard has released the first patch for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. The patch focuses on changing the game balance, but also includes some new interface features. It also contains nVidia 3D Vision support and improvements to the game’s editor. The balance changes nerf the Protoss Zealot, Terran Battlecruiser, Siege Tank and Zerg Ultralisk. Blizzard has also added a quick save option, a game clock and a system panel showing Read More ...
Blizzard has announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has sold three million copies worldwide during the title’s first month on sale. That figure complements other stats about the title that were confirmed recently. It’s the fastest-selling real-time strategy game of all time and the best-selling PC game this year (so far). The game launched simultaneously across North America, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Singapore, Read More ...
The NPD group has announced the US sales for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty for July. The game managed to sell a pant-changing 721,000 units at retail. The game was released on 27th July, so that number was reached in only five days. NPD’s sales don’t measure digital downloads, so the number could’ve been even higher. Regardless, it is the fastest-selling strategy game of all time. It sold more than Read More ...
