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BlizzCon Ticket Fiasco Update

Earlier this week, we covered the quick sell out of BlizzCon tickets as well as the problems that arose from the massive load on the servers.  On Wednesday, the president of Blizzard, Mike Morhalme wrote an apology and presented an opportunity for those who were unable to purchase tickets due to the Blizzard Store problems. “Soon, [...]

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BlizzCon 2008 Sold Out

Tickets for BlizzCon 2008, Blizzard’s annual convention taking place on October 10-11 in Anaheim, were sold out last night. There were so many people trying to acquire tickets that the Blizzard store was temporarily unavailable several times over the past couple days.  Tickets for the convention were priced at $100 a piece and included access to [...]

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MMO Lessons to Learn from World of Warcraft

In an interview with Kotaku, Blizzard’s game director Jeffrey Kaplan hopes that the new MMO that they are working on will become more successful than the current juggernaut World of Warcraft: “I don’t believe that WoW is untouchable,” he said. “I completely believe that a game could come out and be more successful than WoW. I’m [...]

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Diablo III 20-min Gameplay Video

Ok don’t forget about the following posts already: Diablo III Announcement: Sample Movies, FAQ, more information… Diablo III Screenshots Below is our summary of the highlights from the 20min movie if you don’t want to watch the whole thing, if you do just want to watch the movie, scroll to the bottom. Gameplay Movie Highlights First and Foremost a “cooperative [...]

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Diablo III Screenshots

This wouldn’t be The “Break it Down” Blog if we didn’t “break your eyeballs with screenshots”… right? Don’t forget to check out the Full Announcement along with gameplay movies and more information. So here, take um, they are getting heavy: Thanks VE3D!

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Blizzard Announces Diablo III includes Gameplay Videos

<eyes dialate to the size of dinner plates and hands clasp together> Hol-eee-shit Blizzard actually dropped the hammer on Diablo III with their mystery announcement site after all… after all that speculation that it was actually just a teaser site for the next World of Warcraft expansion: Wrath of the Litch King. VE3D treats us to a [...]

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Diablo 3 Announcement Coming Next Month?

Update #1: Diablo 3 has been announced and we’ve covered it in depth in the following posts: Check First: Diablo 3 Announcement, Diablo 3 Gameplay Video, Diablo 3 Game Information Check Second: Diablo 3 20-Min Gameplay Video Diablo 3 Screenshot Rumors abound that PC Gamer is putting together the pieces to a puzzle that seems to show Blizzard is [...]

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Vivendi (Blizzard) and Activision Combine Into Mega-Publishing-Monster

Ted Regulski just sent in this landscape-changing news from the game industry: Activision, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) and Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi’s interactive entertainment business — which [...]

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