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World of Warcraft lost over a million subscribers in the first quarter
- Activision Blizzard recently revealed that cash cow World of Warcraft lost 1.3 million subscribers during the first quarter of 2013. It’s a significant drop as the subscription-based MMORPG played host to more than 12 million back in 2010. The good…
Hackers use exploit to massacre entire cities in World of Warcraft
- An exploit in World of Warcraft recently enabled a group of hackers to wreak havoc on large cities across a number of servers. The hackers were able to massacre entire cities unimpeded for nearly four hours, killing all players and…
World of Warcraft secretly embeds user data in screenshots
- A new report suggests that Blizzard is secretly embedding unique watermarks into World of Warcraft screenshots taken using the in-game screenshot tool. The watermark reportedly contains the account ID, a timestamp of when the screenshot was captured and the IP…
Opinion: The subscription MMO is dead - long live free to play?
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The era of the subscription-based online game has well and truly ended in 2012. It had a good run, really. Fifteen years is quite a long time for anything to stay static in the land of gaming. Ultima Online introduced the idea back in 1997, when those of us who had internet access were mostly still on dial-up and got booted off...
WoW: Mists of Pandaria coming September 25, special editions detailed
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Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria will launch on September 25. The MMORPG's fourth expansion will be offered three different packages: a standard copy for $40 via retailers and Blizzard's digital store, a $60 Digital Deluxe version and an $80 Collector's Edition...
Diablo III coming in Q2, WoW and StarCraft II expansions discussed
- Blizzard has once again announced that fans of the Diablo series will have to wait even longer to get their hands on the pending title. During a conference call to discuss the company’s fourth quarter financial results, Blizzard CEO Mike…
Weekend Open Forum: Your worst gaming habits
- Although I've never pillaged someone's RuneScape account at knifepoint, I have plenty of less-than-proud moments in my gaming history -- like many of you, I imagine. My lowest point was undoubtedly spending months of free time on a little-known MMORPG…
WoW subscribers get Diablo III free, Collector's Edition unveiled
- Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime revealed Diablo III’s box art and the contents of the Collector’s Edition during his keynote at BlizzCon 2011. Morhaime also announced that the game will be free to World of Warcraft players that sign up for the…
Rogers accidentally throttling World of Warcraft players
- Canada's second largest cable Internet provider has fessed up to throttling non-P2P traffic. Last month, Canadian gamer Teresa Murphy wrote to the country's telecom regulator (PDF) accusing Rogers of throttling games like World of Warcraft, rendering them unplayable. Investigating the…
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