As of mid-2009, the creators of World of Warcraft were retaining the IP histories of its users indefinitely and was drawing the lines about what information about its players that it would — or could — reveal to law enforcement personnel, according to a document released on Friday.
Changes are coming to the multiplayer side of StarCraft II when the game’s next expansion, the Zerg-focused Heart of the Swarm, arrives sometime next year. Today, Blizzard offers us our first, unclear look at one of those changes — a new multiplayer unit.
Sounds like Blizzard is now a bit more serious about “exploring a Diablo-related concept for consoles.” What was something of an understated “interest” in bringing on talent for a version of Diablo III for video game consoles now sounds almost imminent.
For Diablo III, Blizzard is giving players a chance to fight the hardest of hellspawn with the game’s “Inferno” difficulty. Faster, stronger and tougher enemies that mean big risks and big rewards. What kind of rewards?
Diablo and his minions will dole out the most extreme player punishment in Diablo III, thanks to its fourth, harder than Hell difficulty level known as Inferno. Blizzard revealed the harsh, high-level difficulty gameplay feature at Gamescom today, explaining what it means for the most dedicated of Diablo III players.
Still on the fence about StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard’s spacey real-time strategy game? Maybe the StarCraft II: Starter Edition, the game’s revamped demo, is for you. It’s the bigger StarCraft II demo that’s less restrictive.
Blizzard Entertainment, maker of World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo, comes to Comic-Con each year armed with all-new things for fans to rabidly consume. From books to belts to food to thigh-high demon socks, Blizzard and its partners innovate new ways for fans to spend, spend, spend.
The people who make MMO juggernaut World of Warcraft have another massively multiplayer online game in the works, a game they’re calling Titan for now. Blizzard calls it “awesome” and “ambitious”. And one analyst calls it “casual”.
There’s still no firm date on Blizzard’s next entry in the Diablo series, but at least one of the game’s official tie-ins, Diablo III: Book of Cain, is expected to arrive in 2011. So what is Diablo III: Book of Cain?