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Crypticâ??s upcoming superhero title will not compete with the World of Warcraft market, says studio CEO
Read More »Blizzard Euro office expands to 600 staff
Initial plan for the Ireland-based customer support centre was to create 100 jobs by 2010
Read More »Sony to host PS3 master training class
While Alan Wake, Assassinâ??s Creed and Splinter Cell devs will offer expert development insight
Read More »Blizzard taps casual game maestro from PopCap
XBLAâ??s first General Manager and PopCap VP Greg Canessa is set to join the World of Warcraft studio
Read More »Activision Blizzard accounts for 25% of last week’s game sales
Gfk Chart Track has revealed that Activision’s domination of last week’s chart meant three of its titles – Call of Duty: World at War, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Guitar Hero: World Tour – accounted for 25 per cent of all games sold in the previous …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Call of Duty shoots in at number one
Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War has swept last week’s number one title Gears of War 2 from the top of the UK charts. With many retailers aggressively boasting cut-price offers on the latest in the best-selling FPS franchise, it’s little wonder the title has taken the top …
Read More »2,500 fans queue for Lich King HMV launch
HMV’s flagship Oxford Street store saw the official launch of Wrath of The Lich King at midnight last night, attracting a whopping 2,500 strong horde of fans. The second expansion for huge franchise World of Warcraft was officially launched in Europe at the HMV store, where patient fans got to …
Read More »Thousands turn out for UK WoW launch
Over 2,500 gamers turned out last night to HMV on London’s Oxford Street last night to celebrate the launch of what is hotly anticipated to be one of the biggest games of the year: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. The game, which is published by Activision Blizzard, …
Read More »New Warcraft game dated
Activision-Blizzard has confirmed to MCV that long-awaited World Of Warcraft expansion, Wrath Of The Lich King, will be released in North America and Europe on November 13th. The game will also be unleashed in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Russia on the same date. The title will hit stores in Australia, …
Read More »WoW userbase still growing
The recent success of titles such as Eidos’ Age of Conan and Codemasters’ Lord of the Rings Online had lead some to speculate that long-term market leader World of Warcraft is on the wane – not so, according to its developer. Speaking to VG247 at Games Convention, Blizzard’s lead designer …
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