Archive for May 18th, 2009

UPDATE 1-Perfect World Q1 beats Street view

Monday, May 18th, 2009

 * Q1 EPS $0.58 vs est $0.46 * Q1 revenue $62.2 mln vs est $57.0 mln * Shares up 12 pct in trading before the bell May 18 (Reuters) - Chinese online-game developer Perfect World Co Ltd (PWRD.O) posted a quarterly profit that beat market estimates, helped by a 40 percent jump in ...

‘Age of Conan’ Celebrates First Anniversary, Sees Player Increase

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Age of Conan is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game that brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan.   Behind the tall walls of the King's fortress press and gamers alike can play the game, meet and chat ...

Family-Friendly MMO Free Realms Tops 1 Million Players

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Less than one month after its official launch, Sony Online Entertainment has announced that its kid-friendly MMO Free Realms has surpassed the 1 million player mark. It's almost certain that the game's meteoric rise has something to do with its enticing price tag. The game is both free to download and ...

BlizzCon tickets: how it went, and what’s next

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Yes, if you were around on Saturday, you know that the first round of BlizzCon tickets sold out, and sold out fast. Tickets went on sale right around 10am PST (which was 1pm EST), and sold out just about 28 minutes later. If the queue numbers are trustworthy, over 21,000 ...

Ensidia gets 10-man Algalon world-first

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Ensidia, the European super-guild that resulted from the merger of SK-Gaming and Nihilum last year, has just made the world first kill of the 10-man version of Algalon, Ulduar's true final boss. Algalon is only accessible after completing every other hard mode in Ulduar, and guilds are only given 60 ...

Blizzard renews TeliaSonera agreement

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Blizzard has renewed their agreement with a company called TeliaSonera to provide bandwidth for them in Europe. They just made a very similar deal with AT&T for the US -- it's the bandwidth that connects their servers to the millions of connections that lead back to your computer as you ...

Unexpected crashes and downtime hit multiple servers

Monday, May 18th, 2009

A sudden wave of crashes has hit the North American WoW servers, with the Emberstorm and Whirlwind Battlegroups especially hard hit. As of this writing, most of the affected servers are still down. Blizzard is aware of the issue and is looking into it, but has no further information to give ...