News Tagged: wow

The latest weekly PC sales chart speaks for itself (this one covers the week of August 3 to August 9, 2008): 1. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest 2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe 3. World Of Warcraft 4. Nancy Drew: The Phantom Of Venice 5...

Blizzard Entertainment confirms that the long-awaited expansion pack World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is going to launch some time between October and December in 2008. "We have said that it will be coming out this year," Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said in a conference call...

Geek comrades rejoice! Blizzard Entertainment announced that the Russian-language version of World of Warcraft will be available on the 6th of August this year. Word is that on that date European players may purchase a version of the game and its expansion...

Next to StarCraft 2, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Diablo III, Blizzard Entertainment has another unannounced game in the making. The project was confirmed during the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, which took place a few days ago in Paris...

Funcom's MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is doing pretty good on the market, selling over one million units and topping charts in Germany, Franks, the UK and US. The top 20 chart of PC best-sellers in the US has shown that AoC is still in the top, outselling ever-present franchises such as Wow and The Sims...

Complaints about Majestic's P&C adventure game Limbo of the Lost are starting to reach epidemic proportions. After many reports on the game stealing assets from a number of popular video games -- including Oblivion, UT 2003, Silent Hill, Black & White, Diablo, Thief, Painkiller and more -- now word is starting to spread that additional titles have joined in...

The idea that a majority of gamers are timid nerds is a misconception, as proven by the results of a recently carried out Australian study. The study showed that video game addicts are just as outgoing as everyone else. "We found that those who played MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft...

The info comes from Blizzard producer J. Allen Brack who says that the company's widely acknowledged MMORPG World of Warcraft will "probably" be treated to a major graphical upgrade at some point in the future. "Will we need a graphical update from the ground up at some point? Yep, probably," he said...

Blizzard is carefully preparing its second expansion pack for World of Warcraft and has continually refused to set a firm release date. Although we still don't know the exact launch date for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, it appears that Vivendi has at least narrowed it down somewhat...

I do apologize in advance to the bulk of you that will go, "uhh, what?" It's one of "those WoW comics." AT COMIC: Impressive Knowledge

This day has been blessed with more Uwe Boll shenanigans. The eccentric German director has revealed to MTV that he approached Blizzard Entertainment for the rights to create a movie based on the online wonder that is World of Warcraft. Boll claims his proposal was refused somewhat impolitely...

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According to a research recently conducted at Middlesex University, people playing violent games feel more relaxed and not as angry as some believe (thanks, GamerPosts.com). Psychologists tested 292 male and female online gamers playing Blizzard's World of Warcraft (what else?)...

This just in from WoWInsider. It just so happens that all the tickets for Blizzard's 2008 Worldwide Invitational are gone. Completely sold out. In fact, they were sold out in less than a week. So if you haven't reserved your spot, you can forget about attending the event...

After conquering a staggering amount of continents, Blizzard has announced plans to launch a World of Warcraft offensive on the unsuspecting huge piece of land in between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans known as South America. Finally, Latin Americans are getting something more addictive than their most famous export product...

This is it, kids. Blizzard finally gives players a change to update World of Warcraft with the Fury of the Sunwell content patch, which features new dungeons, quests, raids and more (as usual, we've included the extensive patch notes, which reveal further details about all the new goodies)...

Blizzard treats its many WoW fans to a trailer for the approaching World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade content patch. The Fury of the Sunwell patch is going to be released soon and will feature new dungeons, quests and raids. In addition, players can expect a variety UI enhancements and a new global arena tournament. Check out the trailer below:

I think I owe it to my non-WoW visitors to at least explain this comic a bit. The title FOTM stands for "Flavor of the Month." This comic is about 2v2 combos in the Arenas, the PVP "battlegrounds" in WoW. You see, currently, the Warriors and Druids are in love. Lots of gay love. AT COMIC: FOTM

Hopefully, all you WoW fans will get the opportunity to dig into Blizzard's next expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, some time during Fall 2008. Until that time comes, the developers offer more screenshots and concept art for your viewing pleasure: click to view full gallery

Trion World Network CEO Lars Buttler (and former online chief at Electronic Arts) thinks Activision's Bobby Kotick is attempting to scare the competition with statements about how not even an investment of $1 billion would be enough to tackle the success of World of Warcraft...

A story on Wired says that the U.S. intelligence community plans to develop software for detecting "violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the Director of National Intelligence...

They say WoW hurts your sex life. Since I don't have a sex life right now. I really don't see why I just shouldn't give in to the online wonder.

An object most of us came to love (literally for some of us) and appreciate has made its way into Azeroth. It would appear that a keen-eyed WoW player spotted a crate resembling the Companion Cube from Valve's excellent and innovative Portal, right outside the Stormwind gates...

The top 10 best selling PC games US chart (for the week ending January 26) just came in, from NPD Group, as usual. As you can see, World of Warcraft is, once again, on top of the bunch: 1. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard 2. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Activision 3...

Next-Gen is reporting that The Nielsen Company has released its latest videogame findings, which show that PC gamers in the US spend most time (by far) playing World of Warcraft. Logging in some 17 hours a week on average as compared to the five hours a week that people spend on the second-placed The Sims...