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DICE: Blizzard Reveals Canceled Games

At the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, key Blizzard Entertainment staff members revealed the many games they’ve secretly canceled over the years. Wired’s Game|Life blog has the full story. Several of the games listed are old news, such as the much-hyped Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, Shattered Nations, and Pax Imperia, a game Blizzard [...]

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Blizzard to Help Bring Guitar Hero to China, Korea

The GGL Wire is reporting that Activision plans to tap Blizzard Entertainment to bring Guitar Hero to “roughly 300,000 game rooms between China and Korea.” Clearly, Activision hopes to cash in on Blizzard’s extreme success in Asia, especially in South Korea, where StarCraft is essentially the national pastime. Readers with especially good memories will recall [...]

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Blizzard Does Unthinkable, Releases Warcraft 3 No CD Patch

The recently released Warcraft 3 patch, 1.21b, allows players to run the game without a CD in their drive, according to N4G. In these days of DRM and strict anti-piracy measures, the most prolific developer in the world freeing its most recent RTS from CD limitations may come as a shock. However, most Warcraft 3 [...]

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Courts Ban Peons4Hire From World of Warcraft

If you’ve ever spent any time playing World of Warcraft, you’re familiar with Peons4Hire, even if you don’t know them by name. The company, owned by In Game Dollar, was responsible for chat spamming players with advertisements for buying in-game gold and items. Peons4Hire were good at what they did, creating characters with [...]

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Blizzard Launches BlizzCast

Following in the footsteps of Bungie and Insomniac, Blizzard has released its first official podcast, BlizzCast. The first episode includes a conversation with Samwise Didier, Blizzard’s Art Director, as well as a sneak peak at World of Warcraft’s upcoming 2.4 patch, which will introduce the Sunwell Plateau, the game’s final, pre-Wrath of the Lich [...]

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Vivendi and Activision merge to form Activision Blizzard

It’s no secret that Vivendi has been trying to sell its gaming division for years. Now, in a surprising Sunday statement, Business Wire is reporting that Activision and Vivendi have announced they are merging to form Activision Blizzard, unquestionably the largest third-party video game publisher in the world. Gaming series falling under Activision [...]

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