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ByBuckGB
OnMarch 8, 2011

Blizzard Entertainment 20-Year Anniversary Retrospective Video

After a few weeks of silence, Blizzard Entertainment’s 20-year anniversary section has been updated with a 48-minute retrospective video during which many of the long-time team members spotlight their many titles, their design goals, and their extensive and envious history.…

ByBuckGB
OnMarch 7, 2011

The Viking Myth

Invoking references to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Dragon Age: Origins, World of Warcraft, and several other titles, the editors at Bits ‘n Bytes examine the history behind the viking civilization and how many such video games don’t portray them…

ByBrother None
OnFebruary 24, 2011

World of Warcraft Patch 4.1 Brings Back Zul’aman and Zul’gurub

MMO Champion is reporting on World of Warcraft’s 4.1 Patch notes, which shows the old Zul’Gurub and Zul’Aman raids are being resurrected as level 85 dungeons. Remnants of the Gurubashi Tribe Originally released in Patch 1.7, the classic 20-man raid Zul’Gurub…

ByBrother None
OnFebruary 18, 2011

The Very Important List of PC Games, Part 4

The fourth part of Rock Paper Shotgun’s The Very Important List of PC Games (to be read as “games we like”) is absolutely stocked top to bottom with RPGs and MMORPGs. There’s BioShock (Importanceness: Beyond that of the sea), Deus…

ByBrother None
OnFebruary 15, 2011

The Art of Video Games

The Smitshonian American Art Museum is setting up an exhibit for video game art/history, wisely constructed over five eras so it won’t be crowded out by just recent games. Consumers even get to vote. It puts RPGs under the “adventure genre”…

ByBuckGB
OnFebruary 15, 2011

Bill Roper Interview, Continued

Gamasutra continues to spill more information from the interview they conducted with Bill Roper during GDC China, with this five-page installment primarily covering his MMO development experience, the flaws in the current publisher/developer funding system, and a few other related…

ByBuckGB
OnFebruary 11, 2011

Full Retail Copy of World of Warcraft Free to StarCraft II Owners

In order to reward “early supporters” of StarCraft II, Blizzard Entertainment has started to upgrade the associated Battle.net accounts with full 30-day retail copies of World of Warcraft. I just so happen to have an account that meets that criteria,…

ByBuckGB
OnFebruary 11, 2011

BioWare and Blizzard Talk Competition

After returning from this week’s DICE Summit, Ars Technica has done a brief write-up of a panel discussion between Blizzard Entertainment’s Mike Morhaime and BioWare’s Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk that featured an ever-so-slightly competitive conversation about the MMORPG market…

ByBuckGB
OnFebruary 11, 2011

Blizzard Entertainment 20-Year Anniversary Celebration

Blizzard Entertainment is preparing to celebrate twenty years in the video game development business with a batch of media and articles that will be released in a staggered fashion, though at the moment there’s only this video of co-founders Mike…

ByBuckGB
OnFebruary 9, 2011

Blizzard: A 20-Year Legacy of Quality and Awesomeness

To complement their Diablo III video interview and preview, G4 has put together this brief history piece to help celebrate Blizzard Entertainment’s impending 20-year anniversary. The greatest and most successful PC developer in the business: BlizzCon began in 2005 with…