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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Blizzard Archive
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The parade of StarCraft II accessories begins with customized SteelSeries Zboard keyboard
Posted on June 22, 2010 | No CommentsT-minus one month and counting till the release of StarCraft II, and we're starting to see officially branded peripherals hit the store shelves. Here's one such peripheral: the SteelSeries StarCraft II Limited Edition Zboard. As the name suggests, it's based on the company's Z Board, except, you know, StarCraft-ified.
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Blizzard: DRM is a waste of everyone’s time
Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments"We need our development teams focused on content and cool features, not anti-piracy technology." Thank you, finally! See, Blizzard gets it. The company's co-founder, Frank Pearce, recently told the good folks at Video Gamer that he thinks the fight against DRM is misguided. Not that he supports end-users going around torrenting his games till the end of time, but that the way to "beat" piracy is to embrace gamers and treat them like complete jerks.
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World of Warcraft Auction House heads to iPhone; Blizzcon tickets on sale next month
Posted on May 19, 2010 | No CommentsYou can now monitor your World of Warcraft auctions using your iPhone (or iPod touch). A new version of Blizzard's Armory App now gives users the ability to tap into the game's Auction House, wherein gamers can keep tabs on their sales of copper stacks and see how much Spellweave is going for.
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Blizzard will add Facebook integration to Battle.net
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No CommentsWhoa there. Blizzard just announced that its Battle.net service will soon hook into Facebook, "linking the world's premier online gaming platform with the world's most popular social platform." The synergy begins with the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, which is currently scheduled for release in July.
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StarCraft II official release date has been set: July 27, 2010
Posted on May 3, 2010 | No CommentsHold onto your knickers, everyone, for Blizzard has announced, via fancy e-mail, the release date for StarCraft II: July 27, 2010. So, slightly less than three months from now. You may freak out now. -
Blizzard selling World of Warcraft mounts now
Posted on April 15, 2010 | No CommentsYup, Blizzard is selling World of Warcraft mounts now. Two of them have just gone live on their little online store there, Celestial Steed and Lil'XT. The former is $25 and the latter is $10.
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There will be a collector’s edition of StarCraft II
Posted on April 8, 2010 | No CommentsBlizzard just announced, via fancy e-mail, that there will, indeed, be a collector's edition of StarCraft II, whenever it comes out. (No, Blizzard has not announced a release date yet, but says it will "soon.") Anyhow, the collector's edition will come with a 176-page art book, a USB thumb drive loaded with the original StarCraft and its expansion pack Brood War, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a CD soundtrack, a comic book, and a World of Warcraft in-game pet, plus other bonus downloadable content (aesthetic stuff, not like mega-powerful guns or anything). Total cost: $99.
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta pre-invites incoming!
Posted on April 7, 2010 | No CommentsLook what just showed up in my inbox! No details were mentioned, dates or anything like that, but I did submit my Battle.net account to the giant database in the sky. ¡Muy emocionante! -
Blizzard-ahoy on Amazon Gold Box deals
Posted on April 1, 2010 | No CommentsJust a friendly heads-up: today is Blizzard day on Amazon Deals or whatever it’s called. You know, new deals on the hour, every hour till 9pm PT. The deals are only revealed as they go live. I’m thinking Blizzard-related keyboards and mice and the like, probably even a game or two in there. -
Man alive, the World of Warcraft economy is quite elastic!
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsThere are people out there who take to World of Warcraft's Auction House like NYU Stern graduates take to Wall Street. The Auction House, for those unawares, is a place where WoW gamers can buy and sell in-game items using in-game currency. It can be incredibly complicated, and there are entire guides dedicated to "playing" the Auction House in order to make money. I've made a fair bit of coin by merely buying items at one, low price, then re-listing them on the Auction House for a new, higher price.
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Yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year
Posted on February 11, 2010 | No CommentsIt's earnings call season, and while no news is more shocking than the fact that WWE will drop the Survivor Series, there's something for World of Warcraft fans. And, really, who isn't a fan of World of Warcraft. Anyhow, yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year. We've (and by "we" I mean the WoW community) pretty much assumed as much since the expansion was first announced, but now the money men have made it official.
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Let’s talk about the World of Warcraft: Official Magazine for a bit
Posted on February 1, 2010 | No CommentsYou'll recall that, a few months ago, we mentioned that Blizzard, in collaboration with Future (the publisher responsible for Edge in the UK, among other magazines), would be creating a World of Warcraft-themed magazine. It's called World of Warcraft: Official Magazine and I just received the very first issue, Winter 2009. From a visual standpoint, the magazine is gorgeous. It's like looking at a work of art. These guys clearly know their way around Adobe InDesign.
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SteelSeries announces StarCraft 2 keyset, March of the Scourge mouse pad
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
SteelSeries continues to work that IP license with Blizzard by announcing two new products aimed directly at gamers: a Zboard StarCraft 2 keyset, and a World of Warcraft: March of the Scourge mouse pad.
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Blizz helps bust WoW playing drug dealer
Posted on January 2, 2010 | No Comments
You can run, but you can't hide (in cyberspace). In one of the strangest stories of 2009, it's been reported that Blizzard worked with law enforcement to help catch a drug dealer.
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No, Blizzard doesn’t hate your console, leaves open the possibility of developing console games
Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
Oh, look, I'm taking a single remark from a lengthy interview and making an entire post about it. It concerns Blizzard, the famed developer of World of Warcraft and Diablo. You may think of Blizzard as a PC developer, but that ignores games like The Lost Vikings. Anyhow, Blizzard has said in an interview with Gamasutra, which always does good stuff, that it is not averse to making a console game in the future, just that it needs to be the right game.