Gamertell

Joystiq reports that our worst fears have been hinted at. When asked, “Will Battle.Net remain free?”, at the Diablo III gameplay panel at BlizzCon 2008, Blizzard’s Julian Wilson gave Blizzard fans a startling answer: “We are looking to monetize Battle.Net so that we get to keep making these games and… Continue Reading »

It was only a matter of time before someone picked up the recently dropped 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. According to a listing at Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classifications (found by a member of forum site NeoGaf), the financially savvy company smart enough to pick up a… Continue Reading »

How epic is the Starcraft 2 single-player story? How about so epic that Blizzard will be releasing it as a trilogy. At BlizzCon 2008 (October 10, 2008), Rob Pardo, the executive vice-president of game design for Blizzard, announced that indeed Starcraft 2 will be released as a trilogy rather than… Continue Reading »

BlizzCon 2008 is offering a free pay-per-view package to new DirecTV subscribers for its upcoming World of Warcraft tournament starting at 1:30 p.m. on October 10, 2008, and 2 p.m. EST on October 11, 2008, broadcasting live from the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA (USA). The DirecTV special promotion… Continue Reading »

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A free Guitar Hero III track is now available through both Xbox Live and the Playstation Store, and World of Warcraft fans should be pleased. Why WOW fans? Because the track is “I am Murloc,” by Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain. On July 16, 2007, at the 2005 BlizzCon convention,… Continue Reading »

As the scalding heat blows across the east coast, Xfire predicts cooler weather for June 2008 due to three events with Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Meet Team Millenium, a broadcast of the Sunwell Raid Redux and the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris… Continue Reading »

It sucks to be Sierra these days.  One of the early stars of the PC gaming scene gobbled up by Vivendi, which has now, in turn, been gobbled up by Activision.  With Activision’s executives now having the final say in what Sierra can and cannot develop, they will have to… Continue Reading »

Coming out of left field, rumor has surfaced about a possible Call of Duty MMO.  IGN reports that, while speaking to a group of investment analysts yesterday (February 4 2008) at the 008 Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick commented that his company might be considering turning its… Continue Reading »

While EA’s takeover bid for Take-Two has hogged all the limelight for the past week, there is finally some other big news concerning another major deal. According to a report from Bloomberg, an investor has sued Activision as it is disgruntled with the terms of the publisher’s merger with Vivendi… Continue Reading »