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The number of World of Warcraft subscribers has fallen from over 12m to 10.3m in one year. Yesterday Blizzard announced that 800,000 players left the PC MMO between July and September. During October last year the game reached a peak with over 12m users. Earlier this year that figure fell …
Read More »ONLINE GAMES FOCUS: Blizzard
As of June this year, World of Warcraft had 11.1 million subscribers.Speak to any other MMO creator and they would bite your hand off for even a slice of that success. But to Blizzard, that number marks the game’s first decline in users since the title launched in 2005. Last …
Read More »Blizzard: We rely on retail
PC giant Blizzard insists it needs traditional retail to help turn its games into global hits. The World of Warcraft studio generates most of its revenue from MMO subscriptions, and also sells its games – including StarCraft and the upcoming Diablo III – through its own digital service.But international VP …
Read More »Blizzard: ‘Diablo III feels better with 360 controller’
Highly anticipated PC RPG Diablo III plays even better” with an Xbox 360 controller, says the game’s director. Jay Wilson told PC Gamer about the challenges Blizzard faces of working on its first console port, as well as its advantages. One of the reasons why we’re exploring the idea of …
Read More »Diablo III beta testing has begun
Closed beta testing for the long-awaited Diablo III has begun, Blizzard has confirmed, as the game enters what it describes as the final stages of development”. The beta allows gamers to play through the entirety of Act I either independently or in co-op. Five hero classes are selectable. It is …
Read More »Consoles, unite! Valve and Blizzard want online harmony
Two of the world’s most influential PC games studios want Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to break down the barricades to their consoles’ online services. Gabe Newell and Frank Pearce, the co-founders of Valve Software and Blizzard Entertainment, both believe that online unification between consoles would be a progressive step for …
Read More »Blizzard and Valve want consoles to unite online
Newell brands online restrictions a 'dead end' policy; Pearce says a single game network would be ideal
Read More »‘World of Warcraft has not reached its peak’
Blizzard has dismissed fears that PC?MMO World of Warcraft is on the wane. The developer and publisher reported 11.4m subscribers in its last financial report, a drop of 600,000 since its 2010 high when the expansion pack Cataclysm was launched. But the company believes it can still ‘build and sustain’ …
Read More »Blizzard ‘building console team’
Studio preparing Diablo 3 for the living room, reports suggest
Read More »Blizzard assembling console Diablo III team
GAMESCOM: World of Warcraft and StarCraft developer Blizzard has said that it is in the process of preparing to make a console port of upcoming PC dungeon crawler Diablo III. Eurogamer reports that lead designer Josh Mosqueira told a Gamescom audience that the studio is very, very serious about bringing …
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