It’s not a breaking update, but it took me a day to gather up the strength to write about it. Much anticipated Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has fallen victim to Blizzard’s release delay (again). Reasons involving work needed on battle.net were given. Speculators were correct in assuming it wouldn’t make its 2009 projected release. […]
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World of Warcraft’s title as the biggest MMO game is in jeopardy. Finland’s Sulake Corp. has announced it’s web-based Habbo Hotel has reached 9.5 million and believe they will have 10 million users by the end of the month. Blizzard’s last reported userbase was at 10 million. The fight isn’t over yet. New figures on
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Analyst Michael Pachter from Wedbush believes that Starcraft II will sell 4 million copies in the first few months after it’s release. Now, it’s just a matter of when that will be. Blizzard had promised an open beta Summer ’09 and with summer winding down fans are left wondering “when”. Hopes of the game being
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Gazillion Entertainment, bound and determined to get a Marvel MMORPG off the ground, has appointed former Blizzard North American President and Diablo designer David Brevik as the new studio director of Gargantuan (team working on Marvel Universe). "I’m a huge fan of comic books, superheroes, and MMORPGs, so the chance to lead the creative efforts
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Blizzard released its very own “Amory App” on the Apple App store today. This app will allow users to view items, search for and view any character, item, guild, or Arena team, check raid schedule and in-game calendar, plan out talent specs with a talent calculator, and have access to the official Amory database from
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Excitement building and a beta so close you can almost taste it, Blizzard announces that LAN will not be supported for its upcoming Starcraft II. In order to further push and promote battle.net, Blizzard rep Bob Colayco states, “”We don’t currently plan to support LAN play with StarCraft II, as we are building Battle.net to
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Lead designer of Starcraft II tells eager fans to hold their horses…for just a little longer. “When we know a date (for anything) for certain, we’ll let you know,” said lead designer Dustin Browder. “Hang in there. We’re in the final stretch.” When further pressed about a target elease date: “Let’s be realistic. Our target
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This semester students at UC Berkeley can fill their minds with traditional reading, writing, arithmetic and… Starcraft? Class began January 29th, with student instructor Alan Feng at the helm. The Starcraft course is a decal course (a student suggested course, approved by a supporting department or faculty) where students attending will receive actual college credits.
With movies under his belt such as Spiderman and Evil Dead, Sam Raimi will now take on the fantasy world of World of Warcraft. Officially. Blizzard Entertainment announced (officially) that Sam Raimi will direct the major motion picture. According to Raimi: “At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story. I am thrilled to work
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