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  • Blizzplanet has just received a timeslot for a Diablo III interview. Please submit your questions in the comments section of this article.

    Blizzcon- Diablo III interview: Submit questions

    Posted on October 23, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Blizzplanet has just received a timeslot for a Diablo III interview. Please submit your questions in the comments section of this article.

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  • Bashiok revealed Blizzard Entertainment will begin sending BlizzCon ticket barcodes via email early next week. BlizzCon will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in California through October 22-23. As always be mindful of fake emails and scams. Don’t click on links without inspecting their target.

    BlizzCon 2010 Tickets Going Out Next Week

    Posted on October 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Bashiok revealed Blizzard Entertainment will begin sending BlizzCon ticket barcodes via email early next week. BlizzCon will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in California through October 22-23. As always be mindful of fake emails and scams. Don’t click on links without inspecting their target.

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  • Blizzard has announced a new update to the Cataclysm raid dungeon lockout system which allows flexibility to guilds and PUGs. You can do a 25-man Marrowgar up to Saurfang attempt, and later a 10-man Blood Queen attempt and you will get the same loot in both type of raids. The way players are individually saved has changed too and you can check it out in your raid info tab. Bashiok posted a very extensive explanation...

    Cataclysm: Flexible Raid Lock System in 4.0.1

    Posted on October 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Blizzard has announced a new update to the Cataclysm raid dungeon lockout system which allows flexibility to guilds and PUGs. You can do a 25-man Marrowgar up to Saurfang attempt, and later a 10-man Blood Queen attempt and you will get the same loot in both type of raids. The way players are individually saved has changed too and you can check it out in your raid info tab. Bashiok posted a very extensive explanation...

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  • The L.A. Times interviewed Mike Morhaime, Blizzard Entertainment co-founder and president to talk about the success of his game studios. I am a fan of everything Blizzard, and that doesn’t extend to only their products. I love to get to know and learn the story, background and passion of the people behind these products. I had the fortune to meet Mike Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Bob Colayco (Public Relations) at Best Buy (Times Square) at...

    Blizzard Mike Morhaime interview at L.A. Times

    Posted on August 8, 2010 | No Comments
    The L.A. Times interviewed Mike Morhaime, Blizzard Entertainment co-founder and president to talk about the success of his game studios. I am a fan of everything Blizzard, and that doesn’t extend to only their products. I love to get to know and learn the story, background and passion of the people behind these products. I had the fortune to meet Mike Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Bob Colayco (Public Relations) at Best Buy (Times Square) at...

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  • PCGames.De reports that Diablo 3 Game Director Jay Wilson will hold a 30-minutes press conference and Q&A at the end of GamesCom 2010 — in Cologne, Germany — to reveal invited journalists a new secret feature of Diablo III. The Diablo III demo will be available at the game floor throughout the GamesCom event. Bashiok seems to confirm this report by the german site.

    Blizzard to Reveal Diablo III Feature at GamesCom 2010

    Posted on August 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
    PCGames.De reports that Diablo 3 Game Director Jay Wilson will hold a 30-minutes press conference and Q&A at the end of GamesCom 2010 — in Cologne, Germany — to reveal invited journalists a new secret feature of Diablo III. The Diablo III demo will be available at the game floor throughout the GamesCom event. Bashiok seems to confirm this report by the german site.

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  • Activision Blizzard will announce the Second Quarter 2010 results on Thursday, August 5, 2010. As past experiences have demonstrated, this is the platform where Blizzard’s president Mike Morhaime makes important announcements about upcoming and current Blizzard games and services. It was at the 2009 Fourth Quarter Report where Mike Morhaime announced the estimated date for StarCraft II Beta, and plans for BlizzCon. This new report might likely reveal the release date for World of Warcraft:...

    Activision Blizzard to Release 2010 Q2 Results on August 5, 2010

    Posted on July 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Activision Blizzard will announce the Second Quarter 2010 results on Thursday, August 5, 2010. As past experiences have demonstrated, this is the platform where Blizzard’s president Mike Morhaime makes important announcements about upcoming and current Blizzard games and services. It was at the 2009 Fourth Quarter Report where Mike Morhaime announced the estimated date for StarCraft II Beta, and plans for BlizzCon. This new report might likely reveal the release date for World of Warcraft:...

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  • GiantBomb interviewed Dustin Browder at the studios recently to discuss race balance, whether there are units that will be removed or not. The developers are seeing several game situations, things they didn’t foresee players coming up with like a Queen rush on Protoss players who aren’t effective that early at blocking chokepoints and protecting the base. The Queen’s speed will be nerfed to prevent Queen rush. Dustin also talks about the single player’s Challenge mode.

    StarCraft II: GIantBomb interviews Dustin Browder

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    GiantBomb interviewed Dustin Browder at the studios recently to discuss race balance, whether there are units that will be removed or not. The developers are seeing several game situations, things they didn’t foresee players coming up with like a Queen rush on Protoss players who aren’t effective that early at blocking chokepoints and protecting the base. The Queen’s speed will be nerfed to prevent Queen rush. Dustin also talks about the single player’s Challenge mode.

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  • Hey, folks. Bashiok announced today that the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction ladder will be reset on March 23, marking the release of Diablo II patch 1.13 into the live realms. Blizzard Quote: We will be resetting the Diablo II ladder on Tuesday, March 23 with the release of patch 1.13. We anticipate all Diablo II realms to be down for approximately six hours during the reset. More specific information on realm availability on the...

    Diablo II Ladder Reset 3/23

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Hey, folks. Bashiok announced today that the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction ladder will be reset on March 23, marking the release of Diablo II patch 1.13 into the live realms. Blizzard Quote: We will be resetting the Diablo II ladder on Tuesday, March 23 with the release of patch 1.13. We anticipate all Diablo II realms to be down for approximately six hours during the reset. More specific information on realm availability on the...

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  • The Starcraft II Beta Developer Twitter Chat # 1 revealed several details about beta testing. Blizzard plans to release a major content patch mid-April to enable some basic achievements and improved voice chat, 3v3 and 4v4 maps, among other unidentified features. A Mac beta client will be available in April, when it’s ready. The Map Editor will be out before late-April. No new races are planned for the three episodes of Starcraft II. The roach,...

    Starcraft II Beta Developer Chat # 1 Transcript

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
    The Starcraft II Beta Developer Twitter Chat # 1 revealed several details about beta testing. Blizzard plans to release a major content patch mid-April to enable some basic achievements and improved voice chat, 3v3 and 4v4 maps, among other unidentified features. A Mac beta client will be available in April, when it’s ready. The Map Editor will be out before late-April. No new races are planned for the three episodes of Starcraft II. The roach,...

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  • Do you have the talent and the passion for games to join Blizzard Entertainment? Do you live near San Francisco? This could be the opportunity of your life. Blizzard Entertainment will be accepting resume and reels at the Game Developers Conference in Moscone Center at the Career Pavilion Booth Number CP 272 through March 9-13, 2010. Not attending GDC? No problem. Go online at http://jobs.blizzard.com Four Blizzard developers will be attending GDC 2010 as speakers:...

    GDC 2010 Blizzard Entertainment Schedule

    Posted on March 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Do you have the talent and the passion for games to join Blizzard Entertainment? Do you live near San Francisco? This could be the opportunity of your life. Blizzard Entertainment will be accepting resume and reels at the Game Developers Conference in Moscone Center at the Career Pavilion Booth Number CP 272 through March 9-13, 2010. Not attending GDC? No problem. Go online at http://jobs.blizzard.com Four Blizzard developers will be attending GDC 2010 as speakers:...

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