A few days ago, Techland wrote about how Blizzard Entertainment asked YouTube to take down a video of a player-made Starcraft II MMO called World of Starcraft. Even though the MMO was made using Starcraft II’s Galaxy Editor, an Blizzard Entertainment approved map creator that the company has encouraged users to toy around with in the [...]
If you’re going to give users the Starcraft II Galaxy Editor, a map creating tool that Activision-Blizzard encouraged players to toy around with, then why threaten creators with copyright infringement when someone actually programs something interesting?
Executive vice president and chief public policy officer of Activision Blizzard Incorporated George Rose is making it known that he’s not pleased with the new Californian legislation that may make selling violent video games to minors a criminal offense. In an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, Rose said that not only was the strict [...]
Demons beware, the demon hunter is here.
MTV Multiplayer‘s posted a nerdgasm-inducing bit of info that could bring two awesome sci-fi visions together, if we all wish hard enough. In an interview with MTV’s Russ Frushtick, Rob Pardo–Blizzard’s Executive Vice President of Game Design–offered up the following observation about moving their game franchises onto the silver screen:
Today marks the end of nearly a decade of waiting, as Blizzard finally releases the long-brewing Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty.
On November 23, 2004, Blizzard Entertainment launched what would become one of the most successful games in video game history — World of Warcraft. Two expansions, 11.5 million global subscribers and an Emmy-winning South Park parody later, the massively multiplayer online fantasy game is still going strong.
If you were hoping to see Blizzard’s action-RPG Diablo III anytime soon, don’t hold your breath.
