MMO's have dwindled somewhat in recent years from the boom they once had in the early 2000s but with a recent resurgence, they are coming back better than ever and expanding their audiences to tens of millions of players. It's not just World of Warcraft or Eve Online anymore that…

A new Blizzcon means big World of Warcraft news, and that news comes today in the form of a brand new expansion. Tensions are high in the world of Azeroth after the defeat of the Legion, bringing about the most intense rivalry between the Horde and Alliance that we've ever…

Blizzards famous card game Hearthstone is known for its amusing expansions and due to an online résumé, we may know the the name and some of the cards in the first expansion of 2017. The résumé of Lani Minella, a voice actress who you may remember as the female Krogan Eve…

What’s this? Blizzard have finally listened to the community? Heaven’s above. That’s right, the amount of deck slots available in the World of Warcraft themed card game has doubled from nine to 18, meaning you can have even more variants of Secret Paladin before it inevitably leaves the meta after…

On the 11th of August 2014, the world mourned the loss of a genius. Robin Williams was confirmed dead, deemed to be suicide. The gaming world is no different, as the true impact of Robin Williams’ life hits home. There are no words that could do justice to the reaction…

A Trojan hiding as the popular add-on for World of Warcraft has been compromising user accounts, Blizzard revealed today. According to a post on the World of Warcraft support forum, a fake version of the Curse Client contains the Trojan. The false client was available on a forged version of…

Ron Nakada, Senior Software Engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, was unfortunately diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer earlier this year. Thankfully, to help his battle with the disease, pledges to his YouCaring campaign have skyrocketed over the festive period. Aiming to crowdfun $25,000 by late January, the donation amount has already…

The World of Warcraft movie coming from Legendary and Universal Pictures has revealed its first set of stars, however, although being stars they aren’t the huge name some fans may have been hoping for. Over Twitter Legendary Pictures wrote the cast will include Travis Fimmel (Vikings), Ben Foster (3:10 to…

 A world record attempt by gamer Brian Lenk, known on Twitch.tv as "Rlenk" was looking to break the longest gaming marathons session, aiming for 135 hours. However this attempt was shut down by Twitch.tv due to too many reports on the stream. No one is exactly sure as to the…

Greg Street, Lead System Designer at Blizzard for the past six years, has departed the company. According to an article by Polygon, he is leaving to work on an unknown project that we will likely hear about in the near future. This news was confirmed by a post on his…

 Blizzard are once again raising money for charity by releasing a new pet and mount for World of Warcraft. Proceeds from purchases will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The Alterac Brew pet and the Enchanted Fey Dragon are available through Battle.net, with the bundle costing $30. $5 from each bundle…

During this year’s Blizzcon, members from Blizzard and the World of Warcraft film’s director Duncan Jones took to stage. The movie recently announced its December 18, 2015 release date with shooting beginning in January. Jones is reported to be a massive World of Warcraft player himself and his goal with…

Today at Blizzcon, Blizzard announced the fifth expansion to their juggernaut MMO World of Warcraft. The expansion will feature new character models, and the new Draenor are to explore, which consists of 7 zones, and one pvp zone. 6 new dungeons and 2 new raids also await those looking for…

StevenLuo posted on TeamLiquid their own creation of Warcraft, Warcraft IV saying that it was because “many products are in [development] by Blizzard” so “The powerful SC2 Editor came out,” and this is what has been created: StevenLuo lists that the game features: 2 factions: Alliance and Horde, 14 buildings,…

Blizzard Entertainment have announced that they will be linking in another round of World of Warcraft servers via it Connected Realms feature on Oct.28. The next round of realms will be down for maintenance from 9 a.m 2 p.m ET and will consist of the following: Blackwing Lair and Detheroc/Dethecus…

Blizzard Entertainment are working with Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures on the official World of Warcraft film project, and have now revealed the release date and the two year wait, as the film will be coming to us on December 18th 2015! The film was announced first in 2006 in…

The Video Games Live concerts have always been a fan-favourite, with their live orchestral recreations of some of gaming's best musical themes playing to sell-out gigs. The next step for the group is to release a new album to follow up the previous efforts Video Games Live and Level 2.…

You may remember not so long ago we reported that Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, was the second highest paid executive in America. Well it seems that the near $70 mil he earned has gone, personally giving $100 mil to the the recent independence of Activision Blizzard. Kotick went…

Today Blizzard have announced that they are seriously exploring the idea of implementing micro-transaction payments into their long-running and highly successful MMO, World of Warcraft. Blizzard have been one of the only MMO developers to avoid micro-transactions since their growing popularity within free-to-play MMOs. The news arose after players on…

Games are a big business, no surprise there, and Activision Blizzard own a fairly large part of the pie. Owning the best selling games franchise of all time (COD) and the most successful MMO of all time (WOW) they rake in mega-bucks all year round. It shouldn't shock anyone to…

 Activision has confirmed that World of Warcraft has lost 1.3 million subscribers, meaning the active subscriptions are down to only 8 million. Activision say that the subscribers that have been lost are mainly from the East but some are from the West too. 8 Million is still a heck of…