Tag: Warcraft
Blizzard's Warcraft and Diablo III gamers' details breached in hacking storm
Today Blizzard Entertainment encountered an embarrassing situation in which their internal network's security measures were breached. Passwords, security question answers, email addresses and encrypted passwords linked to gamers' accounts are thought to have been stolen by cyber criminals. Mike…
Diablo III is delayed yet again
Bad news, dungeon-crawling fans; the long awaited hack-and-slash RPG Diablo III will now miss its early 2012 release window. Diablo III publishers Activision, as part of their financial reports, yesterday revealed that Diablo III has slipped from its initial…
World of Warcraft movie slowly taking shape, Blizzard creative chief reveals
More news trickling in on the proposed World of Warcraft movie today. Though we'd previously believed that the movie was now in the process of finalising script details, it seems that that stage is still a little way off. However,…
Ex Modern Warfare devs sue Activision for $500 million
Nearly 40 former employees of Infinity Ward, the development team behind the mega-successful Modern Warfare franchise, have brought a $500 million lawsuit against publishing house Activision. The employees are claiming for half a billion dollars in unpaid royalties and bonuses,…
Modern Warfare senior executives given the boot by Activision
There's been some strange goings on this week between publisher Activision and Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward. Following claims of "insubordination", Activision have terminated the contracts of Jason Ward and Vince Zampella, senior executives at Infinity Ward. The reasoning…
World of Warcraft hits 11 million active subscribers worldwide
Belgium? Bolivia? Israel? Ireland? You’ve got nothing on World of Warcraft. Blizzard’s ultra-popular massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, full of orcs, elves, dwarves and undead, has hit 11 million active subscribers. That’s a shade fewer than the population of Greece, and means that one person in every 625 on the planet holds an active subscription…
Eee PC's TOP SECRET bonus ability – gaming
Eee PC can bravely run Half-Life 2 (at 10fps, mind) with even World of Warcraft now added to the growing list of PC games hardcore Eee fans have managed to get working on the pocket laptop.
For the benefit of those who don’t believe
Dell reveals the XPS M1730 Warcraft edition laptop
It’s the PC game that saved PC gaming, now World of Warcraft is adding quite a significant money to Dell’s ‘bottom line’.
Two new ludicrously expensive WoW-badged XPS laptops have been announced by the PC flogger, coming in either Horde or Alliance designs…
Are MMORPGs addictive? Yes, for some
I'm a 'chipper' smoker, which means I smoke about a pack a week; go through phases of more and phases of not smoking at all. So I'm better suited than most to say that addiction is a complicated phenomenon,…