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Blizzard has just dropped a few hundred thousand jaws by announcing a release window for the developer’s upcoming Diablo III.
It’s not out in 2011, sorry.
“The fiery gates leading to the Burning Hells have begun to swing open, and the Diablo III beta test is officially underway.”
You had us at ‘Burning Hells’ Blizzard. You had us at ‘Burning Hells.’
Will Diablo III release this year? Will Blizzard Entertainment really launch its next extraordinarily anticipated action RPG in the year 2011?
It’s getting a little touch-and-go as far as time is concerned. There are only four months left in the year which is not a lot if you consider the scope of such a game release - a release that would crank into operation a marketing campaign the size of which you’ve never seen before.
Not content to have the fastest-selling PC game of all time in their stable, Activision and Blizzard have announced that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has gone on to break another record for PC gaming, this time for monthly sales.
Blizzard has revealed that the company’s recently released World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has become “the fastest-selling PC game of all time” after selling over 3 million units in just 24 hours of availability.
Oh, what’s this? The third expansion pack for the massively popular massively multiplayer online RPG, World of Warcraft, has only just been unleashed around the world, and members of Blizzard are ready to discuss the fourth set of content?
I hope you enjoy your stay in Azeroth and Outland, WoW players - it seems as though you’ll be living there for even longer than you originally thought possible, with the potential for an entirely new continent to be added to the game…
Speaking to CVG ahead of the launch of the just-released World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Blizzard’s lead systems designer Greg street said:
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is now officially available around the world, as you are reading this very text! Exciting, no?
With the launch of this Azeroth-shattering expansion comes the release of an epic ‘Collector’s Edition’ version of the game, and as with all epic limited edition offerings Mother Internet is usually subjected to the pain and weight of more than several new videos being added to her carriage – videos depicting the shameful act of unpacking one of these monstrous boxes!
These ‘unboxing’ videos (as I’ve chimed on in the past) are truly odious, but kind of addictive in some deep, long-forgotten way. All that’s missing from the experience is that wondrous ‘new booklet’ smell.
Scratch and sniff technology can only go so far.
At midnight tonight around the world, the land of Azeroth will forever be devastated and transformed by the mighty Dragon Aspect Deathwing, when the latest expansion pack for Blizzard Entertainment’s industry-crushing World of Warcraft is finally unleashed.
With the latest, final trailer below, you can catch glimpses and extended looks at some of the fantastically epic environments you’ll be exploring in World of Warcraft in the coming weeks and months, thanks to the release of Cataclysm.
“Citizen of Azeroth - Behold:”
World of Warcraft players will no doubt be aware that something big is heading their way very soon in the form of a world-shattering event, as the Dragon Aspect Deathwing readies himself to wreak absolute chaos and change the land of Azeroth forever.
Blizzard Entertainment has just announced that a range of exciting launch events will be taking place around the world to celebrate the release of World of Warcraft’s impending and achingly epic expansion, Cataclysm.
The third expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s incredible massively multiplayer online RPG, World of Warcraft, has been stamped with a release date of December 7th, 2010 – the date that players will finally be able to test their skills against the mighty ‘Deathwing the Destroyer’ in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
Just to ensure that the game’s already-rabid fan base puts red marker to calendar so as not to ‘forget’ about the impending release of the expansion (like there’s a chance of that happening…), Blizzard has released a gorgeous, epic introduction cinematic for Cataclysm featuring Deathwing’s first CG showing in the title, as he suits up for destruction.
Truly amazing - Blizzard’s video production team keeps churning out the goods:
Blizzard Entertainment has finally announced a solid release date for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the developer’s hugely anticipated expansion/world destroyer for the genre-dominating massively multiplayer online RPG.
Following the announcement in early August that Blizzard’s StarCraft II had sold over 1.5 million units over the course of two days, the company has now gone and revealed that the industry crushing real-time strategy game has doubled that number during its first month on sale.
A post on the official Battle.net blog has revealed details of the upcoming 1.1 patch for StarCraft II which is set to add additional mod features, bug fixes, support for Nvidia’s 3D Vision as well as a host of balance changes… and when I say ‘a host,’ I actually mean a deluge… and when I say ‘a deluge,’ I really mean that you should head to your nearest bomb shelter.
The 1.1 patch for StarCraft II is due for release by the middle of September, and will contain the following additions and improvements:
Blizzard has revealed that the studio’s recently released StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty for the PC and Mac managed to sell over 1.5 million copies during the first 48 hours of its availability, easily making it the best-selling PC game of 2010, and the fastest-selling strategy title of all time.
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