Tag: BLIZZARD

It looks like at least one security team has their finger on the pulse: LinkedIn, after hearing about the Gawker Media hack, obtained the database of email addresses and cross-checked it against every member of LinkedIn. If a match was found, the account was immediately deactivated and an email sent to the user, forcing them to change their password. Judging by a thread over at Hacker News, ...

Yup, it's been a long time coming, but the out-of-game value-added services for World of Warcraft are finally emerging. The subscriber base has seemingly stagnated at a meager 13 million, and Blizzard [or Activision...] is looking for other creative ways of milking its bulbous bovine. First we saw in-game vanity items -- like pets and mounts -- and now we're actually seeing the start of an ...

Did you know that four million Chinese play World of Warcraft? You probably knew that a lot played it -- and that WoW has 13 million subscribers or so -- but four million? That's almost the population of Denmark or Scotland. And they're all having to go without their Warcraft fix... again! After a relaunch in September, the operators NetEase have been forced to shut down the realm of Azeroth yet ...