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BlizzCon 2011 Announced

We’re only a month into 2011 and Blizzard Entertainment has already blown the lid off their BlizzCon plans. Is the first step in their Diablo III Q4 2011 release plans? Maybe. BLIZZCON® 2011 ANNOUNCED Blizzard Entertainment’s sixth BlizzCon gaming celebration…

Den of Geek’s History of RPGs

The staff over at Den of Geek has put together a quick history of role-playing games, in which they briefly cover the genre’s tabletop roots before profiling many of the stand-out titles of the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s. One of…

Cancelled Diablo MMORPG Models Uncovered?

It’s no secret that there was a bit of a shake-up at Blizzard North back in 2003 when Bill Roper, Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, David Brevik, Mark Kern, and quite a few others left the company to form new development…

DLC and Tiered Gaming: A Scourge of Modern Gaming?

Mana Pool is offering up a new editorial that examines the criteria the author feels is important when determining a video game’s value, and how DLC, CE-specific content, pre-order bonuses, and other promotions have impacted such a value in recent…

Blizzard Entertainment Video Interview

Destructoid caught up with Blizzard Entertainment’s Frank Pearce for a brief video interview during this year’s VGAs. In it, they talk about the awards, their plans for a World of Warcraft film, and Blizzard’s still-unannounced MMO project Titan. The media…

GoGamer Sale

GoGamer is running another 48-hour madness sale (with 31 hours left as of this writing). Titles that might interest GameBanshee users include Rise of the Argonauts for Xbox 360 (60% off), Diablo Battle Chest (50% off), Planescape: Torment (50% off) (still…

Building Battle.net

Gamasutra managed to corner Blizzard Entertainment’s Greg Canessa for an interesting interview about the challenges involved with building the modern Battle.net, why the company needs their own online platform, what sort of functionality they might add to it in the…

Blizzard Entertainment Interview

Edge Magazine managed to corner World of Warcraft designer Rob Pardo during last weekend’s BlizzCon for an interview about the evolution and growth of the company’s fan event, the lack of “meaningful competition” for WoW, whether they’re collaborating with Bungie…

The History of Blizzard Entertainment

To coincide with this past weekend’s BlizzCon, IGN has cranked out a four-page “History of Blizzard” feature that takes us through the early Warcraft days, the acquisition of Condor and their Diablo project, the enormous success of World of Warcraft,…

Blizzard Real ID Opt-Out Details

An official forum post on the Blizzard forums hopefully provides the final word on the Real-ID debate, pointing to the options available on your Blizzard.net account. We’d like to make you aware of the new Real ID-related privacy options we’ve…