Recently, several former Blizzard employees who have been working on World of Warcraft left the company announcing that they had raised 18 and a half million dollars to fund their newly created MMO development company: Red 5 Studios. Read the full story...
Blizzard has launched their online store for sales of games and game products. Amongst other things, this is a good place to order your Burning Crusade box if you have not already secured it from another source. > Tseric made the following statement...
At a World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade launch party in London Blizzard exec Itzik Ben Bassat hinted towards Starcraft 2 possibly being released sometime in the near future! This is great news for us Starcraft fans who have been waiting since its...
Blizzard didn’t make any allusions about a possible Diablo 3, but this didn’t stop rumors from circulating. After Bill Roper’s resignation,
it looked like there wouldn’t be any sequel to Diablo, even though Blizzard North had started to look for experienced...
In a press release published recently, Blizzard Entertainment announced its third Worldwide Invitational, to be held in Seoul, South Korea on May 19th and 20th. You can view the press release here at its official source. > Blizzard Entertainment® Announces...
Today Blizzard released a gameplay trailer for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. This trailer features the first dungeon players will come across in the expansion - Hellfire Citadel. It shows off shots of all three instances - Hellfire Ramparts...
In a press release - released today - Blizzard announced the 2007 BlizzCon. This year's BlizzCon will be taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center, in Anaheim California, August 3rd and 4th. There are quite a few activities that will take place...
Kotaku initially broke this story: It took a good day of calls and emails, but Blizzard just got back to us about the rumor floating around that Starcraft 2 will be announced next month during their World Wide Invitation in Seoul, South Korea. According...
Well, if the news of Blizzard announcing a new title next month isn't enough, it looks like they're also working on a next-gen MMO. As you can see by their Employment Opportunities page, they're looking to bring on multiple people for a "Next...
The Blizzard website's starting page has been changed to a splash image showing each game they've released in the past. There's also a timeline at the bottom which lists each of the games, including a question mark for the game being announced...
As if the news this weekend wasn't enough to get everyone excited about Blizzard's upcoming game announcement, there's a new hint to this unfolding story. www.starcraft2.com has the exact same splash imagery as the Blizzard homepage. It's...
Just minutes ago, at the Worldwide Invitational in Seoul South Korea, Blizzard Entertainment announced Starcraft 2. SC2 is going to be an RTS, with some of the old units using new abilities, as well as newly created units. Protoss can create force fields...
For anyone that may have missed the announcement over the weekend, Blizzard and CGS(Championship Gaming Series) are teaming up to coordinate the drafting and creation of a World of Warcraft 2v2 Arena League for their upcoming series of televised competitions...
The costume contest at this year’s Blizzcon consisted of a gorgeous Night Elf, OOMkin Druid, Warlock and even Chuck Norris (Barrens chat anyone). Many others made an appearance on stage and you can check them all out by going to HERE .
Founder Electronics has sued Blizzard Entertainment over the copyright of its fonts. The suit alleges that some of Founder's fonts were used without the company's permission for World of Warcraft, further claiming that the use of those fonts has...
Blizzard's vp of game design Rob Pardo has revealed to GameDaily BIZ that a new Warcraft RTS will be "one of the ideas on the table" after StarCraft 2 ships. He also said that to bring WoW to consoles "would be a Herculean effort that...
Apparently the domain name http//www.diablo3.eu now leads to a forbidden 403 page along with http://www.blizzard.eu. Previously diablo3.eu led to the World of Warcraft demo site but now leads to this 403 Forbidden page. For those of you who visited the...
On Sunday 19th August, www.diablo3.eu was forwarding people to a 403 Forbidden error, along with most of Blizzard Entertainments .eu domains. Diablo3.eu is now forwarding people to the Diablo 2 Expansion website. Before the 403 Forbidden error and now...
Blizzard posted the official line up for playable demos at GC on blizzard.co.uk earlier today. PARIS, France. – 20 August, 2007 -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. revealed today that World of Warcraft®: Wrath of the Lich King™, the second expansion for World...
Austin GDC is a great convention for the game industry. It affords game developers a meet and greet opportunity with other members of the industry, the chance to see the latest and greatest technology that will drive MMO's and games in general into...
Earlier today, the Blizzard Entertainment website updated its Job section to include mention of a, "Top Secret MMO." As soon as fan sites saw the hints, the speculation mill churned up and some obvious and not so obvious ideas of what the next...
Following the wake of the shock announcement that Vivendi has purchased a majority stake in Activision and plans to merge Vivendi Games (which includes Blizzard Entertainment) with Activision to form Activision Blizzard, Mike Morhaime, Blizzard President...
In a happening on the US World of Warcraft forums, Drysc has confirmed that the Next-Gen MMO references popping up all over the Blizzard Entertainment job pages are not referring to another World of Warcraft expansion. No, it is an unannounced Next-Gen...
In what is by all counts -- 9.3 million to be exact -- a well deserved nomination, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has announced that Mike Morhaime, President, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment will be inducted into the AIAS...
When Activision and Vivendi Games announced that they would be merging to form the beautifully named Activision Blizzard, nobody saw it coming. Even EA had to take a step back and breathe. This merger will see two of the gaming indiustries best known...
