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“Nongamers slow to join next-gen party

Written on May 16, 2008 – 8:44 am | by wowhunterzone

“Everyone and their mother knows that the gaming industry is the tech du jour. The next generation of consoles is upon us, and companies are focused on expanding the gaming population with eye-popping graphics, multimedia functions, and interconnectivity of both communities and machines. With such seemingly unlimited potential, many think that gaming is geared up for an explosion into the mass market. Not so fast, says independent research group Forrester Research. The latest report from the group says that gaming companies are set for some hurdles as the industry attempts to scoop up new consumers. The current approach of turning the latest Xbox or PlayStation into an all-in-one entertainment hub in order to attract nongamers may not be enough to draw in nongamers–yet. “”While gamers will increasingly use their new consoles for non-gaming activities, this functionality will not be enough to convince non-gamers that buying a console is the answer to their digital convergence dreams,”" Forrester analyst Paul Jackson told the BBC. It’s no secret that developing games for the next generation costs an arm and a leg. To make more money, companies may use subscription-based models, in-game advertising, and products aimed at wider demographics. However, the impact of bringing in more gamers may not be as high as some would hope. “”More young female gamers will use portable and home console platforms; older gamers will tap into game subscription services and casual multiplayer games like poker or bridge but it will only have an incremental effect on the industry,”" says Jackson. Although recent trends say that portable gaming is on the increase and PC gaming is on the decline, Jackson sees differently. “”[Portable game consoles] look like one-trick ponies compared with multifunctional mobile phones that play games or game-capable portable media players. They could well be replaced in consumers’ pockets,”" writes Jackson.

wow gold According to Forrester, PC gaming will grow with the continuing popularity of online gaming and mass-market games. However, even with new users, PC gaming companies will still find it difficult to turn a profit. For every megapopular World of Warcraft, there are several flops in the massively multiplayer online genre. wow gold Jackson also believes that most new PC gamers will be of the casual variety, and they’ll play simple online Web-based options instead of full retail games. ” “LOS ANGELES–The “”First Network for Men”" taped its third annual awards show for games Friday night in a star-studded affair set to air next month. Spike TV held the 2005 Video Game Awards at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles with a variety of rappers, rockers, and movie stars praising the winners of categories voted on by industry veterans and Spike viewers. wow This year, Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Snakes on a Plane) served as MC, delivering award show banter with a gaming twist and introducing performances by Missy Elliott and Def Leppard. 50 Cent, the first musical act to perform on the show, apparently needed no introduction. wow gold Also appearing on the show were Snoop Dogg (last year’s host), Carmen Electra, The Rock, Vin Diesel, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Carson Daly. Based largely on the formula of the Video Music Awards on Spike’s fellow Viacom network, MTV, the show featured plenty of celebrity presenters, several musical acts, and a less-than-formal approach to the show in general. Another thing it had in common with MTV’s awards show, and most awards shows for that matter, was scripted banter between the presenters. mp3 player A number of innuendo-laden (or outright profane) jokes drew sizable laughs throughout the night (Jackson’s gag about one Katamari Damacy code that lets players “”roll their balls over Paris Hilton”" and another to cure them of whatever ailments the first code brought got the best reaction), but they were rare.

More common was the sight of celebrities distancing themselves from material that bombed, noting for the record that they didn’t write the jokes. A certain irreverence regarding not just games but the awards show itself saturated the taping. wow gold Jack Black, in a taped segment accepting the award for Best Performance by a Human–Male, thanked “”all the people of the b******* academy over there,”" before wondering aloud, “”Who votes on this thing. “” And like at other award shows where winners are given time to speak afterward, some chose to use the moment as a platform for a cause.RELATED LINKS:

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Circuit City selling World of Warcraft 60-day prepaid cards for US$ 20

Written on May 16, 2008 – 8:43 am | by wowhunterzone

” Hoping to save some extra cash the next time you top up your World of Warcraft account. Then you might want to take a look at a recent deal being offered by Circuit City. The game retailer is offering a 60-Day WoW pre-paid game card for just U$ 20. By comparison a 30-day prepaid card will usually cost you US$ 15, meaning you’ll be saving 10 bucks worth if you decide to take up this deal. This is a pretty good deal, at least if you’re the type who will be playing regularly for that long (barring unexpected absences) Unfortunately, the card’s already sold out on Circuit City’s site. The card is still available in their stores, so you will want to check with your local outlet in case they’ve got stocks. That appears to be the deal for the day for the WoW players - drop by again in case we run into any further news. Circuit City’s WoW card deal is available for viewing via the source link below. Okay, first and foremost, we’d like to reiterate what Blizzard means by the “”end of the Arena round”": only the qualifications for the Ladder round end on April 15. The Arena season itself isn’t going to end anytime soon. That said, the tournament and the season will continue until their actual determined end dates. But thanks to curious TseTse, a Level 70 Orc Warlock, we now have more information to divulge to you regarding the Arena. As far as Blizzard is concerned, there won’t be any huge gaps between Arena seasons, so you can expect that when this first season does end, the next won’t be far from sight. There has been no further word about the new Arena maps supposedly coming soon. Also, new Arena gear is likely to be added at the end of the Arena season.

But Blizzard isn’t guaranteeing that at the end of this season, whenever it may come to end, Arena participants can expect to see new gear added to the Arena rewards. Also you can expect that if new gear is added, prices can always be adjusted. ” “Few development houses command a devoted fan base large enough to warrant its own fully fledged convention, let alone two meetups, in a single year. Of course, few gamemakers possess the clout to be cited as the impetus behind a near-$19 billion merger, either. wow gold However, such is the case for Blizzard Entertainment, and with the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational ‘08 scheduled for June 28-29 in Paris, the Irvine, California-based developer today took the wraps off its second major convention of the year, BlizzCon 08. Returning once again to the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, BlizzCon 08 is scheduled to run October 10 and 11 and will expand from two to three convention-center halls to accommodate growing demand. Tickets run for $100 apiece, and Blizzard plans to entertain showgoers with a variety of activities. wow gold As with past shows, the developer will be offering hands-on time with a few of its upcoming games, as well as panel discussions, tournaments, costume and other talent contests, and a silent auction. Blizzard plans to dish out more activity details in the coming weeks and months via the official BlizzCon Web site. Blizzard has in the past taken advantage of the large gatherings of its fan base to announce new games. cheap wow gold As part of the Blizzard World Invitational in Seoul, South Korea, last May, the developer debuted the much-requested Starcraft II. At BlizzCon 07 later that year, Blizzard officially announced Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion to its phenomenally popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

This year, speculation runs rampant on what news, if any, will arise during the events. wow gold Already, rumors have sprung up that Wrath of the Lich King is approaching finalization, having entered a closed alpha-testing phase, and may appear as early as November. Speculation on whether Blizzard will revive its long-dormant Diablo franchise has also reached a fever pitch, most recently thanks to the developer acquiring the diablo3.com domain name earlier this month. ” “Overall, 2005 was a record-breaking–but not earth-shattering–year for the gaming industry. mp3 players US retailers sold $10.5 billion of gaming hardware, software, and accessories, some 6 percent higher than the $9.9 billion they flogged in 2004. However, the figures from 2005 appeared grim for one game platform in particular–the PC. According to a report released late yesterday by the industry-research group NPD, 2005 saw PC-game revenue slide from 1.1 billion in 2004 to just $953 million, a 14 percent decline. wow gold By volume, the drop-off was even greater, going from 47 million games sold in 2004 to just 38 million in 2005–a slump of 19 percent. How can PC gaming be going down in flames when World of Warcraft is topping five million players by itself. The short answer: it isn’t.RELATED LINKS:

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World of Warcraft lead producer on Death Knights in Wrath of the Lich King

Written on May 16, 2008 – 8:41 am | by wowhunterzone

“The lead producer of World of Warcraft, J. Allen Brack, was recently interviewed regarding the role of Death Knights in Wrath of the Lich King. He gave out more details about the role of the new hero class, its talent trees, as well as the character’s racial abilities. Brack confirmed that the Death Knight will be filling multiple roles in a party such as a raid tank which specializes in magic damage-dealing bosses but can also function as a main tank for other raids. In addition, the hero class can also act as a DPS character and summoner, sort of like a Warlock in plate mail: There’s a disease damage over time effect, there’s physical abilities, a lot of summon-type creature abilities where you have creatures brought in to deal additional physical damage. Like most experienced players would expect, the roles a Death Knight will be able fill in the game depends heavily on its spec. This has also been confirmed by Brack who discussed the different runes the class will be able to use to customize their character: We think of Blood runes as being the more tanking-type runes. We’ll have Frost as more of a crowd-control type rune. We haven’t really gotten into what the ideal specs are going to be for the blade configuration, in terms of whether you’re going to have Unholy, Frost, Blood and how many of each. You’ll have six slots, and I’m sure there’ll be a lot of theory-crafting as to what the best options will be. Finally, he discussed the character’s racial abilities. When Arthas became a Death Knight, he became a member of the Scourge which turned him undead. This poses the question on how they will be handling this transformation, including the base racial abilities that a race has: We’re not going to let you have double racials.

The way we’ll handle that is with spells and abilities. Death Coil is a great example. Death Coil is a Death Knight ability that either deals damage to an enemy, or heals a friend. Part of allowing all the races to be Death Knights is so that players can choose whatever racials make the most sense for them. He discussed other aspects of the Death Knight including blade respeccing and talent choices for the class. wow gold To read more on this, feel free to follow our source link which will take you to the three page Gamespy interview. ” ” It looks like Blizzard has been busy handing down the law to players involved in win trading on World of Warcraft’s Arena. Apart from giving the Arena rules a bit of a tweak to cut down on violators, WoW Insider reports that the company has also been handing out bans. The reported banhammering incidents have ranged from suspensions of as long as 72 hours to outright permanent bans. wow gold People who bought points from win-traded teams have also been affected by the crackdown, with some getting banned as well. While a lot of players have applauded Blizzard’s decision, quite a few have also been critical of what they see as extreme actions. We’ll be using the case of Lonecrow as an example, who gained infamy at the WoW forums after he accused the company of hacking his character, and stealing all of his 850 gold and gear. wow gold Going into detail into this incident, Lonecrow explained that the hack occurred a day after he updated to new game patch - a patch that set off alarms on his AVG application. Lonecrow further noted that a total of three files supposedly infected with trojans were detected - mp3 players these files are among those that Blizzard labelled as false positives. And while the prospect that Blizzard as a company may have hacked Lonecrow sounds absurd, the incident does leave room for speculation.

For one, why did the hack only occur after the patch download. buy wow gold Such a short time span between the patch update and the (possible) crime entails that the patch may have something to do with the hack. Secondly, Lonecrow indicated that he didn’t visit any 3rd party sites, which in turn means his patch updates were directly from Blizz. wow gold As the victim himself stated, this may be the work an insider - somebody who may have a good reason to steal his loot and had access to Blizzard’s database. Of course, this is pure speculation on our part - whether the readership decides to dismiss this as yet another tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory or a possible glimpse of a possibly bigger fish…we’ll leave for future discussions. ” .RELATED LINKS:

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World of Warcraft: Zul’Aman to lose bear mounts by Wrath of the Lich King

Written on May 16, 2008 – 8:36 am | by wowhunterzone

“Bear Cavalry. You’ve heard the net meme, and some of you probably even managed to bag one of these fine beasts during your last run on Zul’Aman’s timed events. Now, if you haven’t just picked up an Amani War Bear just yet, then you may want to try to do so before World of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion goes online. According to an update by Slorkuz over at the WoW Europe forums, Blizzard is planning to remove this mount come WotLK. The good news is that the timed event wills till be there, although players will instead be rewarded with equally high-level items. As Slorkuz explained regarding this move: We want players who have earned it during the appropriate era (aka before the level cap gets raised) to be recognized for their accomplishment. We have absolutely no problem with higher level players (above level 70) going back and doing Zul’Aman after Wrath of the Lich King is live. We just want to preserve the accomplishment of having saved all 4 prisoners at the intended difficulty level. As we said, now may be a good time to try getting your own bear mount. In relation to this news, we’ve also come across a video posted by Thugs over at the forums, demonstrating one of the many ways to clear ZA’s timed events. Enjoy the clip! Circuit City selling World of Warcraft 60-day prepaid cards for US$ 20 Hoping to save some extra cash the next time you top up your World of Warcraft account. Then you might want to take a look at a recent deal being offered by Circuit City. The game retailer is offering a 60-Day WoW pre-paid game card for just U$ 20. By comparison a 30-day prepaid card will usually cost you US$ 15, meaning you’ll be saving 10 bucks worth if you decide to take up this deal.

This is a pretty good deal, at least if you’re the type who will be playing regularly for that long (barring unexpected absences) Unfortunately, the card’s already sold out on Circuit City’s site. The card is still available in their stores, so you will want to check with your local outlet in case they’ve got stocks. wow gold That appears to be the deal for the day for the WoW players - drop by again in case we run into any further news. Circuit City’s WoW card deal is available for viewing via the source link below. ” “If you’re one of the many adventurers trekking the digital plains of Azeroth in Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, here’s some new info regarding the highly-anticipated expansion: a bevy of new details concerning the first ever Hero class in the game, namely the Death Knight. Let’s check out the new info about what could be one of the more legendary classes of World of Warcraft. So, what’s been revealed. wow gold Well, first off, any player with a level 55 character will be able to create one Death Knight per realm, per account. And yes, before you ask, you can create a Death Knight belonging to any of the game’s playable races - be it Tauren or Gnome. We expect the latter to be quite the popular choice, if only to see a diminutive Death Knight sowing terror upon hapless mortals. What happens after you earn your armor, then. world of warcraft gold Well, you’ll be presented with a series of quests that provide a back story, as well as get you acquainted with your new abilities. Speaking of which, when you start off as a Death Knight, you’ll be presented with a full suite of Death Knight abilities right away, so you can start the carnage as soon as possible.

The rationale behind this. wow gold The designers at Blizzard believe that any player who’s already reached level 55 would have an easy time getting around to using those abilities. Now for the specifics. Death Knights are classified as a plate-wearing class, with their own mount that comes in the form of a Deathcharger(think Paladin charger, but more brooding and dark and deep). Their skills pretty much revolve around runes, which you slot into a new skill bar underneath your health bar called the “”blade.”" The blade has six slots in it, and the player is free to fill up those slots with any number of Blood, Unholy, or Frost runes. mp3 player Runes, when used, will refresh after a set period of time, similar to a Rogue’s energy bar. Next we learn about Presences. Presences are pretty much the Death Knight version of auras or stances, and you can choose to activate one at any given time. While the usual differences play out, they function the same way as their counterparts: they buff you up with powerful effects, so long as they’re activated. More about how Death Knights kick some major class ass is Runic Power. wow gold Just like how a Warrior can build Rage the more they hit something, Runic Power increases over the course of a fight, and you can execute moves to make use of all this pent-up Rage–er, Runic Power. Death Knight version of Rogue finishers, perhaps.RELATED LINKS:

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