Battle.net 2.0 feature list [Battle.net] Diablo III fan site DIII.net has a list of known and rumored features in Blizzard's revised Battle.net online gaming service. Battle.net has fallen by the wayside since it's late nineties heyday but when Blizzard spoke to Kotaku back in June they were [..]
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Blizzard Worldwide Invitational: Counting Down [Blizzard Worldwide Invitational] By Lesley Smith While the rest of Kotaku are puzzling over that ever changing Blizzard splash screen and the recently revealed purple penguin, I?m sitting in a hotel overlooking the Eiffel Tower and stroking my press pass into this weekend?s Wo [..]
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Blizzard's Next MMO So Won't Be World Of Warcraft 2 [Blizzard] Despite World of Warcraft continuing to conjure millions out of thin air, Blizzard are already hard at work on their next MMO. The burning question being: what is it? Is it World of Starcraft? World of Diablo? World of Lost Vikings? No ide [..]
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BlizzCon Tickets Sell Out In Minutes, But All Hope Is Not Lost [Blizzcon 08] Ticket sales for this year's BlizzCon went up, then down, earlier today as the bulk of those made available by Blizzard sold out within minutes of going live. It's been a bit of a rocky road, as the Blizzard Store processing ticket orders [..]
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Activision Blizzard Loots $711M In Sept. Quarter, Loses $194M [Bag Of Holding] In its first quarter as a combined company, Activision Blizzard raked in $711 million for the three month period ending in September, the publisher announced today. That's a big take prior to the holidays and bigger than the projected outlook, but still [..]
Activision Blizzard CEO questions rhythm game royalties yet again Filed under: Rhythm, Business
Last week, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick criticized complaints made by Warner Music exec Edgar Bronfman, who claimed the royalty rates for songs used in rhythm games such a [..]
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Blizzard: DRM For Diablo III? No, Thanks, We Have Battle.net [Diablo III] Rob Pardo, executive vice president of game design at Blizzard says that the company has "no particular plans" to institute software verification checks for Diablo III to prevent piracy. Pardo tells Wired's Game|Life blog [..]
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Blizzard Can't Design A Starcraft II Unit, Want You To Decide [StarCraft] Blizzard are in a pickle! They've got two designs down on paper for the game's Protoss Dark Templar unit. And just can not decide which one to use in the game. So they want you to. For the next month or so, visitors to the game's official webs [..]
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Schilling Fields Blizzard And EA Talent [38 Studios] Curt Schilling's 38 Studios has just added two new players to its lineup of award-winning game talent, snagging a composer from EA and an interface designer from Blizzard to work on their R. A. Salvatore meets Todd McFarlane MMO project. Most notable of the two new a [..]
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Blizzard: Our Fans Get Angry, Yo [Blizzard] Yeah, all fanbases have their eccentricities. Halo fans can be...boisterous. Metal Gear fans can have...interesting ideas on what merits good story-telling. Smash Bros fans can be...well, again, boisterous. But as passionate as those groups are, they haven't got shit on Blizzard fans. Those g [..]
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Reminder: Blizzard Customer Support Still Not A Teen Suicide Hotline [Crime] Teenage suicide? Don't do it. And don't threaten that you're going to kill yourself to Blizzard Entertainment customer support representatives via online chat, because that will land your ass in jail. (Pro tip!) Unfortunately, one 17-year old doofus from Middletown, Ohio hadn't learned [..]