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According to VG247 Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce has discussed the company's considerations for a possible forth instalment of the real-time-strategy Warcraft titles. Warcraft 4. Try to read that and not hyperventilate! "If there’s a team that's pa...



Blizzard announced last night that it's releasing a fairly comphrenhensive collection of its most famous music to buy on iTunes. The full collection includes: * StarCraft Original Soundtrack * Diablo II Original Soundtrack * Warcraft III: Reign of Ch...



Hope for StarCraft II's release this year was always a hopeful but unlikely one for the fans, but as with Blizzard's stance on all of its' games, they'll be ready when they're ready. Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce has refused to commit StarCraft...



Blizzard has just announced that they will showing the opening cinematic movie for the up World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King at Games Convention this week, the company confirmed today. "The cinematic will be shown at 1.00pm, Thursday, 21 August at th...



Blizzard has refused to change the art of it's up and coming game Diablo III, Despite over 50,000 fans signing a petition asking for the old saturated look be returned. Speaking to MTV Blizzard said, "There's no going back now. We're very happy with th...



Speaking publically in an investor call following the release of Blizzard's Q1 financials last night, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime confirmed that the release date of the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion pack "Wrath of the Lich King" will be at some point in ...



Following the surprising news yesterday that Activision dropped the Sierra development group and a large chunk of its portfolio as part of its merger with Blizzard, Double Fine’s Tim Schafer has thankfully come in to let fans know that Brutal Legend is still in development...



Can't afford the $100 price-tag to go to BlizzCon in California this year? No worries then, because Blizzard have announced that BlizzCon 2008 will be televised in the States, thanks to a partnership with pay per view channel DIRECTV.



Blizzard have sent out word letting everyone know that tickets for the upcoming BlizzCon will go sale on August 11. BlizzCon 2008 will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center, CA, between October 10th - 11th. Tickets will cost a... substantial $100. "We have an e...



Blizzard Poster Bashiok has posted on the World of Warcraft Forums, detailing a number of gameplay changes that fans can expect to see in Diablo III; player killing will be taken out, but comprehensive Player vs. Player will be put in.



If anyone remembers Blizzard's job listings for an unannounced next-gen MMO late last year, well, a small amount of information has been prised out of Rob Pardo. The Blizzard executive VP confirmed there was still one unknown project, the unannounced MMO, unrelated t...



Today at the World Wide Invitational in Paris, France Blizzard announced Diablo III. This is the long time coming follow-up to Diablo II, which was released in 2000. Not much is available as of right now, but a trailer and further details will come through the next few hours and days so stay tuned.



The zerg race has been an elusive topic with Blizzard since the Starcraft 2 announcement. Their was no zerg section even on the official Starcraft 2 site. Finally no more secrets.



Yesterday some of you WoW players might have noticed some servers going down for a few hours for emergency maintenance. While we don't know the exact reason why they went down, Blizzard did release an official statement on why gold farming and power-leveling is bad for ...



The fourth Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational is coming to Europe! The event will be held at the Porte de Versailles Exposition Center, Paris, France, over the 28th and 29th of June 2008.



The latest patch for World of Warcraft is low on new features, but makes up for it with a number of major refinements to numerous classes in the game. The biggest changes undoubtedly come to the rogue class, which seems to be going through countless backwards and forwards shift in it's makeup.



Two video game giants are set to merge in a deal which could send shock waves throughout the global video games industry. Activision and Blizzard plan to form "the world's most profitable games business". The deal is thought to be worth $18.8 billion (£9.15bn).



In the wake of some very revealing rumours of a new WoW expansion pack recently, Blizzard Entertainment revealed at this year's BlizzCon Convetion, BlizzCon 2007, that a new WoW expansion pack is indeed in production, officially titled World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.



Even as World of Warcraft's userbase climbs towards a record breaking 10 million registrations, the series still remains light on expansions, with last January's Buring Crusade taking over two years to reach us. Only eight months have passed since then, but a new expansion pack may be closer than we thought.



Proving that there really are some people left in the entertainment business that know what's going on in the minds of the modern geek, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences have seen fit to do justice to us all and put the Best. South Park Episode. Ever. up for an emmy nomination.



To those sick of the gold spamming on games such as World of Warcraft, have no fear; Blizzard has announced a new path to eliminate gold farmers. (For the benefit of the layperson; gold spamming is mass messaging in MMORPGs sent out by companies offering services to players.)

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