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World of Warcraft: Bringing People Together
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 - 8 Comments
It’s easy to be cynical when you play online games. Between the illiterate malcontents, guild drama, and unreliable party members, it can be tough to remember why you even started playing World of Warcraft in the first place. I mean, a man can only take ... More
Razer Introduces a 17-Button MMO Mouse!
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 - 11 Comments
PC peripheral maker Razer introduced a brand new mouse today called ‘Naga’ which is focused on MMOs (which coincidentally comes right before BlizzCon). Full disclosure, Project Lore has a video content partnership with the ZAM Network which is running a promotion along with Razer for ... More
Activision Blizzard CEO Interviewed on Game Economy
Friday, July 10th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Activision Blizzard CEO Robert “Bobby” Kotick on Thursday said he is “optimistic” about the future of the game industry as “a very low cost form of entertainment, if you look at the dollar-cost-per-hour.” CNBC interviewed Kotick, who was in Sun Valley, Idaho, for the relatively ... More
Next Expansion: WoW Cataclysm?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 - 68 Comments
A series of trademark requests that Blizzard Entertainment recently filed may indicate the possible name and lore of the next World of Warcraft expansion. Wednesday, Tumblr blogger Supererogatory revealed that Blizzard is seeking trademarks that would include computer games, paper-based products and online games with ... More
Ageism in WoW: Too Old to Play?
Friday, June 26th, 2009 - 56 Comments
Have you ever made fun of the Alliance for having to go to bed early, or being kicked off their computer by their mommy? Or dealt with someone who had a squeaky, barely pubescent voice on Ventrilo? Rejected someone from your guild for being under ... More
Speculating About Blizzard’s Next MMO
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 - 36 Comments
Kotaku just came to the realization via Official Blue Post ™ that one of Blizzard’s projects, their unnamed next-gen MMO, is an entirely new franchise, which means it’s not Starcraft, it’s not Warcraft, it’s not Diablo, it’s not Lost Vikings, it’s not Rock n’ Roll ... More
Blizzard Developing a Fifth Unnanounced Title
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 - 30 Comments
We know Blizzard is developing a third expansion for World of Warcraft. We know they’re developing Diablo III, Starcraft II, and a nameless next-gen MMO. As it turns out, they’re also developing a fifth project that will use a completely new engine built from scratch. Silicon ... More
Marvel Joins The MMO Arena
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 - 11 Comments
Marvel announced this week plans to develop at least two new MMOs, joining a growing list of possible competitors to WoW. A few months ago, iTZkooPA posted on whether Blizzard should be worried about other MMORPGs that already have been released. It looked like, at ... More
Ctrl + M Executed
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 - 14 Comments
I have played my fair share of MMOGs. Many of them I only played for a few months, such as Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron’s Call, Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa. I can only truly say that I’ve been a hardcore player in World ... More