World of Warcraft‘s precipitous subscriber declines continue.
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Maine Republican Party: Playing World of Warcraft Makes You Unfit for Office
In what seems a remarkably cynical, small-minded maneuver, the Republican Party in Maine has chosen to hang a popular video game around the Democratic candidate for Maine State Senate’s neck like an albatross, accusing her of …
Apocalypse MMO: Death Becomes World of Warcraft
This weekend thousands of players dropped dead where they stood in some of World of Warcraft’s greatest cities, from Orgrimmar to Ragnaros to Stormwind.
Entire populations winked out in a matter of hours, their skeletal …
World of Warcraft Blocked in Iran: Blizzard (Unexpectedly) Explains Why
Companies. They’ll tell you next to nothing when the chips are down. Ask them if the sky is blue and if the headline story is “Experts Claim ‘Sky Might Be Blue’,” they’ll invariably reply “no comment.”
Someone at World of …
Watch: Here’s What World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria‘s Opening Looks Like
I keep wanting to spell Pandaria “Panderia,” I have no idea why. It’s not like Blizzard’s forthcoming World of Warcraft is pandering to anyone. After all, it has pandas, with two A’s. Kung-fu pandas. They wear the same Kung-Fu …
Blizzard Announces Release Date for Next ‘World of Warcraft’ Expansion
Your wait is almost over, World of Warcraft fans. Today Blizzard announced that its new expansion, Mists of Pandaria, will be released on September 25.
The game will be available in stores and for online download at the price …
Norway Killer Played World of Warcraft, Which Probably Means Nothing At All
Blame video games — that’s the watch phrase these days when something tragic happens. The non-gaming media seem to enjoy zeroing in on video games that are highlighted in horrifying crimes, invoking the rhetorical question: Do …
Star Wars: The Old Republic Nears Two Million Active Subscriber Mark
It looks like the force is with…aww, lets dispense with the cheesy Star Wars quotes and talk straight numbers — BioWare says massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic has sold over two million copies since …
BlizzCon: Worth the $40 Virtual Ticket?
This Friday, crowds will swarm the Anaheim Convention Center for BlizzCon, the 6th annual celebration of all things Blizzard. Super-fans who don’t make the journey have a much more couch-friendly option—attend via the internet with a virtual ticket. But is the $40 price tag worth it?
Well, the 500,000 people who watched it online …
Norway Attacks: Killers May Play Video Games, but Video Games Don’t Make Killers
Gamers have grown accustomed to waiting for the other shoe to drop when a grisly crime–especially one involving guns or murder–happens. Sooner or later, some media outlet somewhere is going to try to find a link between video games and the horror that one person visits upon another.
Usually, dubious connections are made via …
Inside the World’s First Video Game Amusement Park
WTB one ticket to World Joyland.
If you’ve got a hankering to join the world’s biggest nerdfest (no, we’re not talking about Comic-Con), you might have to hop a plane all the way to Changzhou, China to get the ultimate Warcraft and Starcraft fix.
Billed as the world’s first video game-themed amusement park, “World Joyland” is …
Blizzard’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Now Free-to-Play Until Level 20
Clearly, Blizzard has been taking marketing lessons from bad drug dealer cliches from the 1980s. The company behind World of Warcraft has changed the structure of its free trial offer to ensure that becoming addicted to the online role-playing game becomes so much easier.
Blizzard explained the changes in an official statement like …
