World of Warcraft Magazine To Launch

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It's a terrible time for the print magazine industry, anyone with half a brain and access to Google News can tell you that. Despite the recession and severe difficulties all print media publications face these days, games media publisher Future has decided to launch a quarterly title based on World of Warcraft. This may seem crazy on the outside, but Future has a cunning plan to stay viable; they've cut out the advertisers.

Cnet.com reports that World of Warcraft: The Magazine will be a 148 page behemoth, loaded down with high-quality artwork, game lore discussions, development sneak-peaks, and information on new features. None of this content will be weighed down or interspersed with advertisements. While this sounds a little crazy on the outset, relying on subscriptions rather than ad revenue might just be the way to stay afloat in the current market.

Posted on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:45:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

World of Warcraft Users can tweet now with TweetCraft

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There is a new add-on for the massive online game World of Warcraft that lets players use Twitter from inside the game.
TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft featuring sending and receiving Tweets in-game, Queue Tweets, Upload in-game screenshots using TwitPic, AutoTweet when you log in, and Extensibility, so that AddOn authors can register messages or events to AutoTweet.

As if Twitter would just need another huge user group, but here we go and Twitter will grow again with this connection. According to Hitwise, the site is now the fifth most viewed social networking site. As reported Twitter does not like it when 3rd party tools use Tweet or Twitter in the naming of there tool. Read more

Posted on Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:23:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Rumor: World of Warcraft Coming to iPhone

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The folks at Touch Arcade have found and posted a YouTube video showing an iPhone smoothly running World of Warcraft.

The report claims that the game is running via Vollee, a game streaming application that essentially enables 3G phones to play resource intensive games over a network. Vollee has demonstrated its capabilities in the past by facilitating Second Life on a mobile phone.

Posted on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:30:00 CDT | by James Douglas

World of Warcraft Hits 11.5 Million Subscribers

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Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its wildly popular World of Warcraft game has hit 11.5 million subscribers. The milestone has been met shortly after the second expansion pack for the game, called Wrath of the Lich King, launched.

Wrath of the Lich King set a new record for fastest selling PC game in the first 24 hours of availability when it sold 2.8 million copies. According to Blizzard, the game has now sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. Read more

Posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

World of Warcraft Passes 11 Million Subscriber Mark

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Blizzard Entertainment announced today that its World of Warcraft title has passed the 11 million subscriber mark worldwide. Blizzard says that the milestone was reached just as the beta for the second expansion pack called Wrath of the Lich King is set to launch on November 13th.

WoW debuted in November of 2004 and is the most popular MMORPG around the world as well as the best selling PC game of 2005 and 2006. The original game finished in second behind its first expansion pack Burning Crusade in 2007. Burning Crusade holds the record for fastest selling PC game of all time with 2.4 million copies sold in the first 24 hours. Read more

Posted on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:43:15 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Play World of Warcraft for Free with WoWscape

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OCModShop tested a free WOW server that seems to work well and keeps you from having to pay the subscription fee.

Quote: "But one game heralded the age of MMORPG, and still remains at the top. The World of Warcraft. It has the power to engulf your mind in a world of fantasy creatures and fantastic worlds. With several races to choose from and over a million players from around the world logging in to battle, Warcraft has staked its claim as the leader in online gaming. And you too can experience their World, for a mere $15.00 per month, plus the cost of the game. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:32:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers

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Blizzard says its wildly popular MMORPG title World of Warcraft has reached another milestone with a total of 10 million subscribers worldwide.

Blizzard says the game has 2.5 million subscribers in the U.S. and Europe now has more than 2 million. Asia currently has more than the number of subscribers in the U.S. and Europe combined at 5.5 million. Blizzard also says that a Russian language version of WoW is in development as well. Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:20:06 CST | by Shane McGlaun

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade reaches 800,000 Concurrent User in China

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Chinese Game operator The9 Limited announces that World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Surpasses 800,000 Peak concurrent users in Mainland China.

This is the highest concurrent user count since WOW became available in China in 2005. WOW: The Burning Crusade was launched on September 6th in China. Read more

Posted on Thu, 4 Oct 2007 00:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

World of Warcraft Gets its Own Credit Card

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If you need to give the world more proof that you are addicted to the life sucking MMORPG known as World of Warcraft here is your chance. You can now get your own WoW Visa card that allows you to earn game time with your purchases.

That’s right the more you spend on your WoW Visa the more free game time you can get. Game time is accrued at the rate of 1% for every dollar you spend in qualifying purchases. If 1% seems kind of low, that’s because it is. I mean come on, at that rate you would need to spend $1600 just to get a free month of service. Read more

Posted on Fri, 4 May 2007 08:16:35 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

World of Warcraft The Burning Crusade Launches

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World of Warcraft, the most popular MMORPG in the history of the universe is today launching the first expansion pack called The Burning Crusade. Rumor has it that this expansion has caused more than a few scuffles in Germany when Warcrack fans tried to buy the last few available copies in stores.

Lots of new content is added in this expansion including new continent called Outland, flying mounts and the ability to take characters to level 70. The Burning Crusade also offers new races including Blood Elf and Draenei as well as a new profession of jewelcrafting. Read more

Posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:00:09 CST | by Shane McGlaun