venturebeat.com - 22 days ago
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The Chinese version of World of Warcraft is a cash machine for Activision Blizzard. But the massively multiplayer online game’s fate is up in the air again.
A Chinese government agency, the General Administration of Press and Publication, has once again revoked the permit required to ...
World Of Warcraft Race Change Now Available
insidemacgames.com 28 days ago — October 28, 2009 6:00 AM Blizzard Entertainment has announced the availability of a new race change service for its popular fantasy MMO, World of Warcraft . For a $25 fee per use players can change the race of a character to any race of their same ...
NetEase Slides: China Agency Rejects World of Warcraft
blogs.barrons.com 24 days ago — As several analysts note this morning, China’s General Administration of Press and Publication (known as GAPP) has rejected an application from NetEase (NTES) seeking approval for World of Warcraft . The review process is now officially ...
Update: OS 10.6.2 now working on Atom processors
9to5mac.com 22 days ago — Last week, there was a bit of a fuss made over prominent Hackintosher Stell's contention that new 10.6.2 beta builds were killing support for Atom chips. It appears that fears of the loss of Atom's support were unfounded because the latest ...
China shuts down World of Warcraft —
The Inquisitr » Technology
Previously, we knew that the Chinese government was censoring World of Warcraft . Now, a separate non-governmental authority has wielded its Banhammer +42 (or whatever) and ordered that the game be shut down throughout the country.
This order comes direct from the General Administration of ...
Forum Post of the Day: WoW is ruined (again!) —
WoW.com
Yeah, here at the WoW.com high-rise, we were all a little surprised by the announcement of the Pet Store and its microtransactionalized non-combat pets -- but seriously, it's not that big a deal, people . Hitch your bandwagons to that slippery slope fallacy all you want, but pets offer no ...
Breakfast Topic: How far would you let WoW microtransactions go? —
WoW.com
One of the hottest topics in the past week was Blizzard's foray into the microtransactions game. By announcing the Blizzard pet store, World of Warcraft had officially come on par with other MMOs and online games that sold in-game items for real world money. Our informal survey showed that ...
Pandaren in the World of Warcraft —
WoW.com
In among all of the "omg fake pets for real money" scandal from this week's announcement , we may have missed something big: the Pandaren are now live in the World of Warcraft . The Pandaren are my favorite Azerothian race, even though they're essentially a joke -- Samwise Didier just loves ...
Sunday Morning Funnies: Dark Lord of Profits —
WoW.com
Aside from the usual laughs and story developments, this week's hot topic seems to be the new virtual pets for real money feature from the Blizzard store . There is also some amazing artwork this week, so read on!
Battlemasters: Pulling Rank . This marks the end of the Prologue.
Dark ...
Breakfast Topic: How random your dungeon is —
WoW.com
The new random dungeon feature in patch 3.3 promises to change how we PuG. Not only will you be able to run the same heroic more than once in a day if that's how the luck of the draw works out (a feature that would have been very handy for me back in the days of farming CoS for a fist weapon ...
World Of Warcraft: Update patch 3.3 release coming soon —
PR News:
We have an update for World of Warcraft fans now who are waiting patiently on news of an update, as Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime revealed that the next World of Warcraft update (patch 3.3) will be released in the ‘next few weeks’.
As reported from Eurogamer , Morhaime was ...
Blizzard starts selling in-game pets for real world money —
CrunchGear
Really big World of Warcraft news today, friends. (Why do I write so much about WoW ? Oh, you know, it’s just the biggest, most successful MMO in history. Not writing about it would be like covering tech with mentioning Microsoft or Apple.) Blizzard is now selling in-game pets that you ...
WoW Rookie: Add-ons for rookies —
WoW.com
New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW's newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft . Send us a note to suggest a WoW Rookie topic, and be sure to v isit WoW.com's WoW Rookie Guide for links to all our tips, tricks and how-to's.
Want to add high-powered ...
China Blocks Access to 'World of Warcraft'... Again —
Switched
'World of Warcraft' ( WoW ) is painfully popular in China . So much so that, out of WoW's roughly 13 million subscribers, 4 million are in China -- almost a third of the company's customer base. Considering the large portion of revenue coming from the psuedo-communist country, WoW publisher ...
15 Minutes of Fame: Caitlin R. Kiernan —
WoW.com
15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com's look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes -- from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you'd like to hear more about.
I've wandered around inside the fiction of ...
The best of WoW.com: October 27 - November 3, 2009 —
Joystiq
That right there's a big ugly frost dragon named Sindragosa , and with the newest patch headed to the World of Warcraft (we expect it sometime this December), we'll be bringing her down. It won't be easy, but then again, WoW players have Joystiq's own WoW.com to guide them. You can read all ...
The Daily Quest: It's 8:30 a.m., on a Tuesday, in Stormwind. —
WoW.com
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW -related links from around the blogosphere.
All Things Azeroth is doing a podcast a day during the month of November.
Myth Busted: Fast Weapon Upgrades at Big Hit Box.
World of ...