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Warcraft EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Blizzard loses some minerals over BlizzCon 14 Blizzard’s annual BlizzCon expo celebrating all things StarCraft, Warcraft and Diablo isn’t as profitable as one might think. Despite selling 20,000 tickets at $125 a pop, a ton of me... Venturing into the insane world of Warcraft III mods 35 It's been more than seven years since Blizzard released Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and yet here I am playing the real-time strategy with as much enthusiasm as when I first bought it. No, the s... Amazon's Deal of the Day is a Blizzard lovefest 10 With new iterations of Diablo and StarCraft in the works, it's as good of a time as any to pick up either series from the very beginning. Amazon has got an incentive for you to do just that, name... Attention DotA players: First gameplay footage of League of Legends is here 15 You haven't forgotten about League of Legends: Clash of Fates already, have you? Here's a quick refresh: it's an online multiplayer game in the same vein as the Warcraft III mod Defense of the A... Blizzard is Skynet, confirmed: World of Warcraft hits 11.5 million subscribers 14 Today, Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World of Warcraft's subscriber base has hit 11.5 million players. Wait, hold on -- didn't we just report on October 28 that it hit 11 million? Yik... Holiday cards: Blizzard sends Warcraft wishes 7 A "happy holidays" card from Blizzard just landed in our mailbox today, I don't think I'll ever look at the Lich King the same way again.  Seriously, I'm digging this art style. It... Wrath of the Lich King binge causes kid to collapse 33 World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King was released on November 13, and not only has someone reached the level cap, but one kid has already managed to make himself sick over it. A 15-year-old ... Wrath of the Lich King level cap reached in 27 hours 45 I've said it before, and I'll say it again: World of Warcraft people are scary. They are like machines. They cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be bargained with, and in extreme cases, they can... Shrieking GameStop woman calls to remind me about Lich King midnight launch 42 [video]111114:708[/video] I get a lot of phone calls, many from phone numbers I don't recognize. I'm a man of technology, preferring to do my business over email and text messages, so I let many ... Blizzard CEO promises that next MMO has nothing to do with Warcraft 20 While Sony Online Entertainment was content with producing Everquest titles for years, Blizzard doesn't intend on following in their footsteps. Speaking with Wired, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaim... Prof gets $100,000 to play World of Warcraft 22 America is in recession, but that doesn't stop some people from throwing public money around like it was made of leaves and snow. Prof. Bonnie Nardi of the University of California Irvine has bee... Game Debate to the Death! Favorite DotA character? 52 Last week's debate might as well have been about Lemmings, because while I might have taken the next chronological step in the two part Paper Mario debate series, it doesn't change the fact that ... Geek sells Warcraft account for $9,500. Idiot buys Warcraft account for $9,500 49 Value is a subjective thing. I could never personally justify spending thousands of dollars for a chair just because somebody says it's an antique. That said, I spend a ridiculous amount of money... Destructoid @ Blizzcon 2007: See you there? 19 Although it would be virtually impossible to outdo our exhaustive Comic-Con '07 coverage, we must soldier on and cover frivolous media events like PAX and this weekend's Blizzcon, despite the kno... China hates skeletons, demands World of Warcraft pwns bones 47 Usually, we here at Destructoid take game censorship very seriously. Sometimes, however, there are such hilariously pathetic examples of it that all one can do is laugh. China is about as 'na... WoW pedophemale fails in her quest to get a 17 year old knobbing 57 Hey, love hurts sometimes, but it must sting when such 'love' lands you in jail in a foreign country. 31 year old Australian World of Warcraft player, Tamara Broome, can attest to such a ... Blizzard is a naughty, naughty tease 40 Blizzard has decided to update the splash page of their official site with a teaser timeline of the company's releases that ends in a big, glowing question mark. Currently, only two games on... Leroy Jenkins is dead, long live Leroy 17 Can you imagine what it might be like to spend your entire life as a respected musician, then have some little twerp completely wipe out your legacy with a five minute Warcraft joke? It's cri... The Warcraft that never was 14 What do you think of when someone mentions the Warcraft series? Orcs, magic, grinding, and elf boobs probably come to mind. But how about dragons fighting F-16s and other mythical creatures in a... Warcraft junkie fools Tyra Banks, wife, and sea of women in a TV intervention 94 Bored of analog life, a passive wife, and uninterested in their premarital newb  baby, Shawn has taken up a 40-hour World of Warcraft habit instead of embracing the harder and less entertain... Calculating the landmass of Azeroth; nothing says sexy like fictional math! 12 Tobold, who recently started mainling methadone to combat his addiction to "playing with his Gnome", has dedicated a lot of time to figuring out the actual landmass of Azeroth, the myt... 10 Warcraft achievents to give Antipater a run for his money 2 Have you already reached level 70 and are biding your Doritos-laden time until the next expansion pack comes out? Or have you explored everything there is to do in the vast, pixelated plains of A... Virtual lovin' leads to real stabbin' 25 The Something Awful forums are a lot like the French Salons of the 19th century. They are a place where the erudite and cultural elite can amass to share philosophies, questions and ideals. Of co... Burning Crusade mini site launched; it's like interactive geek porn 6 Blizzard, the folks behind World of Warcraft, and its soon to be omnipresent expansion pack The Burning Crusade, launched a new Flash-based mini site to herald the arrival of their newest license... WoW has 8 million residents, plans to invade Poland 15 (Azeroth isn't actually going to invade Poland, but you just know that's where they would start.)In a press release issued earlier today, Blizzard announced that its tremendously successf... An intimate view of the Chinese gold farmers of Warcraft 52 MTV's Game Week recently featured a inside look into the seedy underworld of Chinese gold farming: the MMO sweatshops that produce all of the gold and rare items up for grabs by online broker... Idiot WoW player suing moron who took his character; wahmbulance dispatched 28 What's worse: Spending your whole life inside World of Warcraft or falling for a spam e-mail and giving away your WoW info which turns into you losing a character you spent your life working ... Burning Crusade now gold. No, there's no joke here. 32 Blizzard, or at least their community manager Tseric, very subtley announced that The Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft, has, in fact, gone gold. The joyous shouts of people all ove... Game Debate to the Death! What's your favorite game EVAR?! 139 Yoyoyo! Why is this normally Tuesday article a day late? Because last week's Diablo II versus StarCraft battle was epic! Before reading the brutal Blizzard battle below, make sure you read th... Demo of Warcraft 1 remade in Flash 6 Yes my lord, the old school PC RTS Warcraft has been remade (sorta) with impressive functionality using Flash using the original character sprites and sound effects. There isn't much that you... Happy holidays from Blizzard 0 The jolly people at Blizzard Entertaiment have brought together the best of Azeroth in search of talented voices to perform the World of Warcraft's "Twas the Night Before Wintervale&quo... Blizzard sends the holiday cheer too! 2 Had enough of the holidays yet? Well, get ready for more anyway. After showing you some of what Rockstar sent over yesterday, now Blizzard has sent me this lovely card. Bad part: I only have my ... Game Debate to the Death! Blizzard Battle 2006 - Final Round 60 Our Blizzard Battle of 2006 comes to an end with this week's Game Debate to the Death! First WarCraft II showed up WarCraft I & III, then StarCraft went up against all three WarCraft ga... Game Debate to the Death! Blizzard Battle 2006 63 Our Blizzard Battle of 2006 continues and approaches its end. Which two games will make it to the final round? Not Lost Vikings! Last week we put all three WarCraft games and their expansions up... Game Debate to the Death! Blizzard Battle 2006 39 Last week's game debate put the all 3 of the WarCraft RTS games against one another, and everyone decided the debate was clearly between the second and third games and their corresponding exp... Game Debate to the Death! Blizzard Battle 2006 39 Last week's game debate put the all 3 of the WarCraft RTS games against one another, and everyone decided the debate was clearly between the second and third games and their corresponding exp... WoW guild forming their own MENSA society 9 BoingBoing, who are utterly obsessed with virtual worlds (Seriously, Cory has pictures of naked orcs pinned up in his locker. I saw them before home room.), brings us a story about a World of War... WoW guild forming their own MENSA society 9 BoingBoing, who are utterly obsessed with virtual worlds (Seriously, Cory has pictures of naked orcs pinned up in his locker. I saw them before home room.), brings us a story about a World of War... Shawn Fanning thinks WoW needs a MySpace 16 Shawn Fanning, the egghead behind the P2P program that struck fear into the hearts of the RIAA way back in the halcyon early 90s, Napster, has decided that World of Warcraft needs an online socia... Who watches the watchmen... of Warcraft? 13 CNet has a thought provoking (yeah, no nudie pics in this one) article up regarding the sudden increase in popularity of online worlds, and how, with more and more people spending large amounts o... Game Debate to the Death! 11/28/06 35 Last week's game debate put the Roller Coaster Tycoon series against all of the Sim City games. The result? A tie!! Boo! Hiss! We'll have to come back to that debate some time in the fut... Game Debate to the Death! 11/28/06 35 Last week's game debate put the Roller Coaster Tycoon series against all of the Sim City games. The result? A tie!! Boo! Hiss! We'll have to come back to that debate some time in the fut... You got your MMO in my cynical, cult-classic Mike Judge comedy! 4 Destructoid has a certain fondness for video game advertisements. We criticize them, yes, but it's only to make them grow up strong. Remember when your dad used to hit you to make sure you di... Blizzard vs Bot Programmers; winner takes cash, possibly souls! 6 Some days you roll out of bed and realize that you shouldn't even have made the effort. That's probably how the makers of WoWGlider felt when they got the Vivendi legal team all up in t... Burning Crusade easter eggs galore! 3 Not all of us are as fortunate as Rob Summa.He has the Wii, he'll be getting a PS3, he's in the beta for The Burning Crusade, and when he's feeling down, doves fly in his window carry... Burning Crusade easter eggs galore! 3 Not all of us are as fortunate as Rob Summa.He has the Wii, he'll be getting a PS3, he's in the beta for The Burning Crusade, and when he's feeling down, doves fly in his window carry... WoW: The Burning Crusade -- lvls 1-5 0 In case you missed my earlier post, I have been invited to join the closed beta testing of the World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade. As a result, I will be bringing you all the high... WoW: The Burning Crusade -- lvls 1-5 0 In case you missed my earlier post, I have been invited to join the closed beta testing of the World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade. As a result, I will be bringing you all the high...		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