Tonight the BBC's Panorama will be looking at 'videogames addiction' and World of Warcraft is naturally a focal point. Blizzard has already responded. The studio says their games are "designed to be fun" but that "day-to-day life" - aka real life - should always "take precedence." WoW has tools for play time.
It seems Warcraft IV may not be as 'real' as fans would hope, despite rumours to the contrary circulating back as far as 2008. In an interview with Strategy Informer over World of Warcraft: Cataclysm due to go up later today, Game Designer David Kosak remarked that the company had yet to say anything official on the title.
Blizzard Game Designer David Kosak has commented that a Cataclysm-like shake up probably wouldn't be sustainable in the future. Speaking with Strategy Informer earlier today, we asked Kosak whether change on this scale was viable as a long term solution.
The UK all formats chart has been struck with Cataclysm, but the World of Warcraft add-on didn't manage to make a victim of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Neither did FIFA 11 suffer at its reckoning from Blizzard. Cataclysm entered in third place, which is tremendous for a PC exclusive expansion pack.
Blizzard has issued a press release bragging that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has set PC sales records, selling more than 3.3 million copies in 24 hours, beating another World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.
World of Warcraft's Blizzard has confirmed that 'Titan' is the studio's "next gen MMO" and that's only because they want to "leverage" it as a recruiting tool. A leaked document supposedly reveals Titan is due in late 2013, however Blizzard would only confirm that 'Titan' is their next MMO project. Diablo III is next.
There's fewer sights more disturbing and funny than the sight of 300 naked Orcs in World of Warcraft teabagging a level 85 NPC.
Some guys have figured out a way to play World of Warcraft… with Kinect. Possibly the most frivolous-yet-cool idea ever, though you probably couldn’t play for more than 30 minutes before needing to take a break or nap.
PC gaming dying? We don't think so! Here's our PC Game of the Year Awards
Blizzard's epic World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm, has sold 4.7M units since its release. The expansion went on sale worldwide on December 7.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm introduced the PvP mega fest of Tol Barad, but it's proving to be too great a frustration for many as the forums rage despair. Blizzard acknowledges something needs to be done and so will tackle "design and balance issues" with several updates. Tol Barad grants access to a raid.
Blizzard defends the difficulty of Cataclysm's dungeons, especially on heroic, saying they don't want the "under-geared or unorganised" given easy victories. Dungeons are "gussied up loot vending machines" admits Blizzard's Greg Street, but they want players doing more just "push a button to get the loot."
Blizzard is claiming that it was "never our intention" to halt work on a fan-made World of Starcraft mod.
Ryan Winzen's World of StarCraft MMO mod created iusing StarCraft II’s mod tools will be given the okay by Blizzard - but on the condition it be renamed.
Blizzard has announced the sixth annual BlizzCon event and it's being held on Friday, October 21st and Saturday, October 22nd. Tickets have sold out. Kidding! You'll have the chance to have your heart crushed by that later in the year. BlizzCon celebrates all things Blizzard-like, except for the snowy kind.
Co-founder Greg Zeschuk of BioWare has said at the DICE summit in Las Vegas that MMO developers must take critical lessons from World of Warcraft. That's because if we have standards in the genre, "WoW established them." It's a "touchstone" for BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Ryan Winzen put together a little StarCraft 2 mod called 'World of StarCraft' which then caused a small ruckus with Activision Blizzard over copyright. However there's good news because the mod still lives but under its new name of 'StarCraft Universe'. This fan-made 'MMORPG' sticks to 12-players max.
CEO Mike Morhaime of Blizzard has affirmed that his studio aren't developing some World of Warcraft sequel with their super secret project Titan MMO. Blizzard has tasked "some of our most experienced" devs from WoW on this new project, and they're "really trying to leverage all the lessons" learned.
According to leaked notes for the upcoming new patch for World of Warcraft, Blizzard is revamping two 'old WoW' dungeons to support heroic raids. Level 85 heroic five-man raids to be more precise. Epic items of level 353 will be lootable, and you need item levels of 346 to get in. Rare mounts return too.
World of Warcraft was hit a with a plague back in 2005, the 'Hakkar Blood Plague', which was meant to be confined to the Zul'Gurub high-level dungeon. It was infectious to players and it broke out. Dr. Nina Fefferman is an epidemiologist and she claimed it provided quite a 'fascinating insight' into epidemics.