Real-Time Strategy games, or RTS, have been around for ages. From the classics such as Age of Empires, to the present-day titles such as Starcraft 2 and Grey Goo, they have always been a source of countless hours of entertainment for those of us who were interested in strategy gameplay. I personally began playing RTS at a very young age, ...
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YouTube Briefly Suspends Blizzard’s Channel
YouTube shut down one of Blizzard’s YouTube channels for a shocking 40 minute period of time today as the result of alleged copyright violations. Yep, you read that right. The Irvine California based gaming company’s World Championship Series StarCraft YouTube channel was suspended for violating their own copyright by posting content that they actually created. It seems that DCMA takedowns ...
Read More »Blizzard officially confirms that the Titan MMORPG is cancelled
For the past several years rumors have been floating around that Blizzard Entertainment was working on yet another MMORPG. This new title was said to be called Titan, although this was apparently just its codename. In any case, there have been next to no details in regards to the game and Blizzard never actually announced it. Therefore, many people have started speculating ...
Read More »Blizzcon 2014 Virtual Tickets now available
BlizzCon is drawing closer and closer and if you were planning to attend Blizzcon 2014 in person you are, unfortunately, out of luck since all tickets are completely sold out. But do not despair, there is still hope! Virtual Tickets for Blizzard Entertainment’s BlizzCon 2014 are now available for purchase. The price of the virtual tickets is $39.99 / £24.99 ...
Read More »World of Warcraft loses subscribers again, down to 6.8 million now
Blizzard Entertainment announced earlier that World of Warcraft lost a pretty big number of subscribers again. As of June 30, the most popular MMORPG of all time can account for 6.8 million subs, down from 7.6 million it had back in March. That’s a 800.000 drop in just a few months and the numbers will probably continue to go down ...
Read More »Warcraft movie logo and weapons showcased during Comic-Con 2014
Warcraft is still over a year away and unfortunately we haven’t seen much of it until now, nor did we hear any particularly useful details. Today however we get to some the first real pictures of what the film is all about. Granted, they aren’t images from the movie itself, but they’re even better in a way. If you don’t ...
Read More »Heroes of the Storm enters next Alpha phase soon
Blizzard announced today that preparations have started for the next phase of the Heroes of the Storm Technical Alpha. The title is deep in development and new changes are constantly being made. Just these last few weeks the game received an overhauled user interface and new skins and heroes have also been added. But the company has just started and now they want ...
Read More »Blizzard might unveil a new IP in 2014
The next couple of years will be absolute gold for the people at Blizzard. With an expansion for Starcraft 2 still looming, Warlords of Draenor for WoW set to come out soon, Heroes of the Storm ready to tackle the wider MOBA audience and Hearthstone to receive a single player add-on, it looks that the people that once were called ...
Read More »BlizzCon 2014 date has been announced, along with ticket prices
The favorite time of the year for Starcraft, Diablo and Warcraft universe fans is most definitely BlizzCon. This year’s event will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center during November 7-8, Blizzard announced earlier. Tickets will be available for purchase in two batches with the first one starting on May 7th, while the second will follow shortly after, on May ...
Read More »Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls sells over 2.7 million copies in its first week
Blizzard announced earlier today that Reaper of Souls, the expansion pack for Diablo 3 has sold over 2.7 million copies in its first week after release on Mac and PC. The company states that players have defeated the Angel of Death, Malthael over 1.5 million times already and by all accounts it seems like they’re not done with him just ...
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