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Subscriptions for MMO World of Warcraft have risen back over ten million following the release of the game’s fifth expansion Warlords of Draenor. The title sold 3.3m copies with its first 24 hours on sale and developer Blizzard claims the MMO has seen growth across all major regions. Subscriptions for …
Read More »World of Warcraft subscriptions back over 10m
Player count at its highest in years after launch of expansion
Read More »World of Warcraft players get five free play days to compensate for DLC struggles
Players of Blizzard’s all-conquering MMO World of Warcraft are being handed a five day extension to their subscriptions to make up for the troubled launch of the Warlords of Draenor DLC. The offer applies to all subscriptions that were active as of Friday November 14th. The quality of the content …
Read More »Moderator removes World of Warcraft subreddit in protest at login issues
One of the most active World of Warcraft communities on the internet was this weekend temporarily suspended as an act of protest. The top moderator of Reddit’s World of Warcraft subreddit on Saturday suspended the page entirely as a result of his prolonged struggle to long into the game since …
Read More »WoW: Warlords of Draenor suffers DDoS attack as servers struggle with demand
What’s that, an online game is suffering technical problems? No way! Hot on the heels of troubled online launches such as Driveclub and Halo: Master Chief Collection (and offline launches such as Assassin’s Creed: Unity), Blizzard’s World of Warcraft expansion Warlords of Draenor has become the latest title suffering some …
Read More »Blizzard aiming for diversity with Overwatch line-up
Characters in WoW studio's new FPS designed to make all players feel "equally represented"
Read More »Goblins vs Gnomes expansion confirmed for Hearthstone
Blizzard’s weekend announcements included news of another expansion to card battler Hearthstone. While the previous Curse of Naxxramas update introduced a single player component, the new Goblins vs Gnomes focuses on the core multiplayer game by introducing 120 new cards. The cards can be won in the Arena mode or …
Read More »Blizzard announces multiplayer shooter Overwatch
New IPs from Blizzard are quite a rarity, so there was much excitement when Blizzard announced a brand new shooter at Blizzcon at the weekend. Boasting some highly stylised graphics and a rich roster of characters, Overwatch champions accessibility and fun over everything else as six-player teams compete against one …
Read More »Blizzard’s Morhaime speaks out against GamerGate
"It's not right," says WoW studio president during Blizzcon 2014
Read More »The rise of Hearthstone: Blizzard’s latest blockbuster
Blizzard is a developer that likes to pride itself on making some epic games. World of Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft… the studio’s biggest IP are giants in their genres, with triple-A production values. Hearthstone, the firm’s first free-to-play foray, is different. It’s a collectible card game that doesn’t require any high-end …
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