Hours ago, Microsoft revealed (via Reuters) that they have signed an exclusivity deal with the popular online sitcom, The Guild. An episodic Internet comedy, The Guild is the entertaining (and often hilarious) tale of WoW guildmates, focusing mainly on their healer Codex (played by Guild creator and writer -– and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog female [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 22, 2008
Okay, okay – I broke my promise. But … it’s a tiny little bear! I had to! Just login on your World of Warcraft account tomorrow, which happens to be World of Warcraft’s big 4th birthday, and the little guy above will be yours. Logging in and snagging this one-day-only pet Baby Blizzard Bear will not [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 20, 2008
I swear, this is the last time I will mention Wrath of the Lich King barring any super-sad-yet-sort-of-amusing stories in the coming weeks about addicted gamers. Earlier today, Blizzard sent out a press release revealing that Wrath of the Lich King sold 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of release. The last WoW [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
In yet another win for the folks at World of Warcraft, Kevin Werbach, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of business and self-proclaimed "technology analyst, dad, raconteur, resto shaman, and policy wonk" has recently been "named as co-leader of the FCC review team for the Obama-Biden Transition Project." It [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Wrath of the Lich King, addiction, good stuff, bad stuff, yadda yadda. With Blizzard’s newest time-sucking expansion on gamer PCs all over the globe, it’s only natural that we’re seeing a resurgence in addiction-related stories. (I wonder if EA is behind it… Hmm…) For this latest one, we head back to the UK. The Sun –- [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 17, 2008
While some WoW players managed to ignore sleep and the pressing needs of their bodies to accomplish awesome-but-still-sort-of-sad things, some weren’t so lucky. Over in Sweden, one such unlucky customer happened to be a 15-year-old boy. The boy (whose name hasn’t been revealed due to his age) had been playing Wrath of the Lich King with [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 17, 2008
Those World of Warcraft people never cease to amaze me with their amazingly hardcore dedication to being utterly.... hardcore. Over the weekend, in fewer than three days from the Wrath of the Lich King Expansion's release, a conglomerate of the European guilds Nihilum and SK Gaming killed off every single raid boss in the pack. [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 15, 2008
When I wrote about Age of Conan and Warhammer Online preparing to make their splash in the Korean MMO market, I couldn’t help but wonder if the games would reach a similar level of success as they did in the US. So far, I’m still going to stick with my prediction and say no. In the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 15, 2008
It seems like only days ago that I wrote about the release of the latest World of Warcraft expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, and IT WAS. Well, within 27 hours of the expansion pack's release, human warlock Nymh became the very first person in the world to reach level 80.
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
As of 12AM this morning, Wrath of the Lich King, the latest World of Warcraft expansion pack, has officially been unleashed upon the world.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
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