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Blizzard Dubs World of Warcraft: Lich King 'The Fastest-Selling PC Game of All Time'

By Chris Faylor, Nov 20, 2008 7:41am PST

Blizzard announced today that its second World of Warcraft expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, sold over 2.8 million copies during its first...

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""PC gaming is dead" is just a clever catchy meme perpetuated by console manufacturers... and ..."

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Huxley Delayed Again

By Chris Faylor, Nov 17, 2008 3:08pm PST

Webzen's oft-delayed shooter MMO Huxley (PC), originally slated to hit in 2006 and most recently expected to hit North America in late 2008, has...

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"Oh, it's Korean and published by NHN. That means it's garbage. I'll bet it will be like ..."

- psamathos see all 14 comments

Blizzard Likes Star Wars MMO, Continues Describing Next-Gen MMO

By Blake Ellison, Nov 14, 2008 9:40am PST

Blizzard sees it as "a fact" that BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC) will be a great game. From the house of the world's largest game,...

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"Then dont play any MMOs trying to grow beyond a niche, because they're about inclusion of the ..."

- yAak see all 41 comments

Blizzard Uses Positive Words to Describe Next MMO

By Blake Ellison, Nov 13, 2008 2:40pm PST

Blizzard used last night's launch of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to do a little more teasing about its "next-gen MMO" in the works,...

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"You guys remember that virtual reality thing from movie Strange Days? Yeah its gonna be kinda ..."

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Blizzard Explains World of Warcraft's Paid Character Customization

By Chris Faylor, Nov 13, 2008 8:30am PST

With Blizzard having confirmed that some sort of "paid character customization" will eventually be offered to it 11+ million World of Warcraft...

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"I donno how everyone else rolls, but my every inch of my toon's body is covered with armor all ..."

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World of Warcraft May Be Used as Army AI Testing Ground

By Blake Ellison, Nov 06, 2008 11:06am PST

The U.S. Army may use MMO games like World of Warcraft as simulation training for new artificial intelligence that would see use in holographic...

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"Maybe the DoD wants to give the chioneez gold farmers stiff competition. Next think you know. ..."

- silverback1138 see all 22 comments

World of Warcraft Hits 11 Million Subscribers

By Chris Faylor, Oct 28, 2008 8:42am PDT

Blizzard's highly-successful 2004 MMO World of Warcraft (PC) has now amassed over 11 million subscribers worldwide, the developer proclaimed today....

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"But... but... the operating costs are like, 400 billion a day! They aren't making annnnny money! ..."

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BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Revealed

By Nick Breckon and Chris Faylor, Oct 21, 2008 3:09pm PDT

Ending years of silence and rumors, BioWare and LucasArts today revealed that they have joined forces to produce a Star Wars massively multiplayer...

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"Someday, someone will make an mmo focused on small, player hosted servers... where your ..."

- ReiMomo see all 154 comments

Cut Warhammer Online Class Not Returning

By Chris Faylor, Oct 20, 2008 2:12pm PDT

Prior to Warhammer Online's recent launch, developer Mythic cut four classes and multiple capital cities out of the PC MMO. Two of those classes...

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"It's still a poor headline but for the most part that is typical here. Something along the lines ..."

- adodric see all 31 comments

Warhammer Online Regains Cut Classes Soon

By Chris Faylor, Oct 17, 2008 10:58am PDT

Two of the classes cut from Warhammer Online prior to the PC MMO's release will be added in a major patch due out this December, developer Mythic...

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"that's not true. the bosses in the 6 man dungeons are interesting bosses. the game's pve dynamic ..."

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Blizzard's New MMO Will Be 'Different'

By Chris Faylor, Oct 16, 2008 12:08pm PDT

World of Warcraft developer Blizzard is mostly keeping its mouth shut about its "next-gen MMO," but that hasn't stopped CEO Mike Morhaime from...

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"There has been alot of how Free-to-play, micro payments and casual playing is the way forward in ..."

- tidic see all 67 comments

Blizzard: Over Half of Ex-World of Warcraft Players Returning from Warhammer Online

By Chris Faylor, Oct 16, 2008 8:32am PDT

Over half of the World of Warcraft players that left the popular PC MMO for Mythic's recently launched Warhammer Online have since returned to...

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"I was going to say this exact thing. I didn't experience any kind of diffculty with WAR... ..."

- RogerDandy see all 156 comments

Champions Online Beta Sign Ups Open

By Chris Faylor, Oct 13, 2008 12:37pm PDT

City of Heroes and Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios today opened registration for the closed PC beta of its superpowered MMO Champions...

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"I don't think so. I had a 50 earth/bubble controller and yes, that dumb poo was a freaking ..."

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Original Fallout Designer Expresses Slight Concern with Fallout 3, Fallout MMO

By Chris Faylor, Oct 08, 2008 8:49am PDT

Though the Fallout franchise is now mostly out of original designer Tim Cain's hands, that doesn't mean he's going to ignore what's going on with...

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"Not the same kind, I'm talking a unified shadowmaps system that was entirely scrapped (kind of ..."

- ZaldronGG see all 31 comments

Rumor: BioWare Unveiling Star Wars MMO Soon

By Chris Faylor, Oct 03, 2008 8:27am PDT

Acclaimed RPG developer BioWare will officially reveal its massively multiplayer Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game later this month,...

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"YAY, another MMO.... Why can't we have a new Jedi Knight game or X-Wing/Tie Fighter type game. ..."

- samduhman see all 98 comments