Tag: blizzard

  • Diablo 3 Website Launched

    [[innerindex]]The exciting news of Diablo III was confirmed to the world this morning when Blizzard unveiled it in its week-long splash screen! Shortly after my previous post on the topic, the Diablo III website was launched too! The site, as is typical with Blizzard sites, is gorgeous…here’s some info that was gleaned. Storyline It has…

  • Diablo 3 Officially Announced!

    Blizzard has had a splash screen that changed daily for the past 5 days, today was its final day and I was extremely surprised to see that it revealed what has long been rumored…Diablo 3! This is exciting news! The graphical announcement looks freaking awesome and I look forward to the link on the announcement…

  • DotA 6.51 Released

    DotA 5.1 has been released! You can get it here or here. Here’s the changelog: Fixed a bug with Kellen’s Dagger that caused it to sometimes not get disabled when hit Fixed Land Mines tooltip Increased cast range of Kelen’s Dagger Undid previous Bottle changes. Bottle now works as follows: Costs 600 gold, does not…

  • DotA v6.48 Released!

    DotA version 6.48 has been released! There is 1 new hero :D You can download the map here or here. Check out the changelog: 6.48 Changelog =============== * Added a new hero from the Model-To-Hero contest (see below) * Added a new ability for Animal Courier to change its model. * Fixed Planeswalker’s Cloak and…

  • DotA v6.46 Released!

    A New version of DotA has been released…this release filled primarily bug fixes. You can download it here and here. 6.46b Changelog ================ * Fixed Furion’s Treant stats * Fixed the neutral creep spawn time in -rd * Fixed how Psi Blades damage spill area is calculated (149031) * Undid some of the previous Primal…

  • StarCraft II Announced

    Cinematic Trailer Note: YouTube doesn’t do the videos much justice as the quality is lacking. To see the videos in all their glory, check the StarCraft II website I became as giddy as a school girl when I found out that Blizzard had announced the much rumored and anticipated StarCraft II! As of now, while…

  • Dota 6.43b Released!

    DotA has released version 6.43b! Download it here or here. Here’s the changelog: 6.43b Changelog: ================= Fixed some big performance problems lower end machines were having Fixed some rare bugs that caused heroes to not revive Fixed -swaphero, neutral creep spawn time and initial gold in -xl 6.43 Changelog: ================ Added new mode -xl(Extended League…

  • Google Maps: Map World of Warcraft

    Google Maps has been taken to a whole new level. The greatest mashup of the gaming world has been created using data from World of Warcraft and the Google Maps API. The end result is brilliant! Its name? MapWoW. What is it exactly? Well, its a map of World of Warcraft that you can zoom…

  • World of Warcraft MySpace Layouts

    Blizzard, in their infinite wisdom has blessed MySpace with its presence! Over the past few months I’ve received a number of requests for World of Warcraft MySpace layouts and I’m happy to say that Blizzard has created a number of those layouts for anyone to use! They’ve got one for each WoW race. To get…

  • No More E3?

    It seems big name corporations may have lost interest in spending money on advertising at good ‘ole E3. Uber-geeks writes: The buzz is that E3 as the gaming industry has come to know it will cease to be what it has been since the mid 1990’s. The hugely popular Gaming Expo has lost its interest…

  • Tunak Tunak Tun

    OMG What is this!?!? Whatever it is, World of Warcraft will be getting this dance with the new Draenei race in beling delivered in the WoW expansion – Burning Crusade.

  • DotA v6.34 Released!

    An article from Uber-Geeks says: I am happy to announce that Icefrog over at DotA Allstars has released the next version of Defense of the Ancients (DotA), version 6.34! You can download it at GetDotA.com. What does this new version bring? Well, firstly it provides the same game modes as its previous version (v6.33b). The…

  • New World of Warcraft Forums

    Blizzard’s forum software has always sucked balls. It was about time that they re-code it and give it a face lift. Well, they have released their new forum Beta test for World of Warcraft, check it out! Features: New design New Avatars Most Valuable Poster (MVP) Status* A Search that works (their non-working search had…

  • Most Popular MMORPG

    Well, as expected, Blizzard has once again created the most popular game of a given category! In a press release on Blizzard‘s site they announced meeting the 1 million paying customer mark in the US! Bringing the total of paying customers world wide to over 4 million. Assuming ~4 million customers @ $15/month…thats $60,000,000 every…

  • World of Warcrack and the future of MMOGs

    [[innerindex]] I began gaming in the early 90’s. Looking back at what gaming was then compared to what it is today causes me to do a double take. Things have changed so much so fast. Of particular note is the Online Gaming industry. What started out as geek-only text-based fantasy games has morphed into a…