Archive for March 25th, 2009

EVE Online Fanfest 2009 Details Revealed

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

EVE Online players can now begin making plans to attend the 6th annual FanFest to be held in Iceland from October 1-3, 2009. Grab all the salient details below: Iceland Beckons... Are You Brave Enough to Heed the Call? It is time once again to start marking your calendars and making your ...

WoW Continued to Dominate the MMO Market

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Screen Digest released a report entitled Subscription MMOGs: Life beyond World of Warcraft, shows that the MMO market grew by 22 per cent in 2008, with consumer spending levels of USD 1.4 billion in North America and Europe. Piers Harding-Rolls, senior analyst and head of games at Screen Digest forecasted ...

Blizzard Theme Park contest ending soon

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Don't miss out on your chance to cook up the zaniest, most Blizzard-worthy idea of a theme park -- the deadline for submissions to Blizzard's Theme Park Contest is on March 30. Blizzard called on fanboys everywhere to submit their ideas for a theme park based on their properties, Diablo, ...

Vaneras answers a whole lot of Mage questions

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

  In Saturday's Arcane Brilliance, I linked you to a Ghostcrawler post on the official forums in which he answered a good number of pressing Mage questions. Some of his answers were encouraging, some were vague, but all of them served to give a Mage community very concerned about its future ...

Death Knight goes insane (in the membrane)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

  A Gnome Death Knight appropriately named Nutshell from Mug'thol reported on the forums that he had completed the requirements for the upcoming Achievement Insane in the Membrane. The Achievement, to be implemented in Patch 3.1, requires a character to gain Exalted reputation with the Steamwheedle Cartel (Everlook, Booty Bay, Ratchet, ...

Two mods for thwarting The Alchemist’s Apprentice

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Ever since Wrath of the Lich King was in beta, my least favorite daily quest was The Alchemist's Apprentice from Zul'Drak, part of Troll Patrol. I could zoom through all of the other Troll Patrol quests without any stalling or hesitation, but this one would hold me up forever with ...

Blizzard vs. Relic Entertainment in The Escapist’s March Mayhem

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

The good folks over at the Escapist are giving March Madness a little game developer spin -- they've pitted 64 different videogame developers up against each other in an NCAA Basketball-style showdown, with readers voting for which dev moves on to the next match. And our favorite developer, Activision-Blizzard, is ...