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.
“I come from the orcs, we eat with spoons and forks, we love to eat our pork!” That’s the sound of a male orc in online roleplaying behemoth World of Warcraft. In China, it may also be the sound of an orc male working on the chain gang, by which I mean an actual Chinese [...]
You know how you’ll be playing World of Warcraft or Halo: Reach or Call of Duty: Black Ops with a bunch of friends and somehow you execute a decoy-flank-covering fire strategy that’s so brilliant it completely overwhelms your opponents? Well, the Navy wants to harness that same kind of emergent thinking in an MMO designed [...]
The world’s computers crunch through 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data every year.
A Swedish cell phone company just unveiled what might be the future of online shopping – a strange combo of video chat and interactive graphics that looks very much like something out of Minority Report.
Microsoft said all along that their Kinect motion-sensing camera would open up new gameplay possibilities. Turns out it’s opened the unlikeliest possibility of all: a StarCraft game for the Xbox 360.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has become the world’s fastest selling PC game of all time, according to Blizzard Entertainment.
I’ve got a confession to make: I’m a World of Warcraft virgin. Now, I’ve had some experience with the game: I’ve sat behind my roommate and friends for countless hours as we talked about our lives while they battled with their Troll. I’ve even sat down for a few hours at a time and ran [...]
It’s Cataclysm Day, the day that millions of people around the world reckon with the destruction wrought by Deathwing the Destroyer. People will be buzzing about all the changes to both Azeroth and World of Warcraft and we’re giving away this sweet headset so you can catch all the clamor. Here’s the official description from [...]
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]
You still have to wait until December 7, but Blizzard is letting you take a sneak peak at the new World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. The cinematic trailer doesn’t show you actual gameplay, but it looks pretty awesome.
