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Activision-Vivendi merger completed!

Jul 10, 2008

As title says, u can see the new official site below:
http://www.activisionblizzard.com/corp/index.html

"Paris, France and Santa Monica, CA - Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the completion of the transaction announced on December 2, 2007 to create Activision Blizzard, as the world's most profitable pure-play online and console game publisher. Activision Blizzard was formed by combining Activision, one of the world's leading independent publishers of interactive entertainment, and Vivendi Games, Vivendi's interactive entertainment business, which includes Blizzard Entertainment's® World of Warcraft®, the world's #1 subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Activision Blizzard will continue to operate as a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker ATVI. "

Both of these two companies are giants in game industry, with many famous games. And what could we expect from this "new" company? I wish there will be more and more awesome games developed soon. WOW, anyway, diablo3 must go first! lol

Blizzard's Fourth Unannounced Project Confirmed

Jul 02, 2008

What's the next?

Next to StarCraft 2, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Diablo III, Blizzard Entertainment has another unannounced game in the making. The project was confirmed during the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, which took place a few days ago in Paris. "There is still one unknown project," said Blizz exec VP Rob Pardo to OnlineWelten. "We have another development team."

Pardo also mentioned Blizzard's recent job listings for an "unannounced next-gen MMO." Earlier they made it clear that this new project is not another add-on for World of Warcraft.

At this point, fans are speculating it could be a new MMOG set in the StarCraft universe, while others seem to think that Blizzard means to spice things up a completely new franchise.

"The idea of a new franchise is very intriguing to employees of the company," explains Blizzard COO Paul Sams. "Are we ever going to release a new one? I would absolutely say we will at some point. I just don't know when that day will be quite yet."

The thought of Blizzard announcing new game license is certainly very app

WOOOOT!!! Yes! It's coming!

Jun 28, 2008

You must have know the exciting news as me: yes! DIABLO3 is coming!

"Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today revealed Diablo® III, the newest entry in its critically acclaimed action role-playing-game franchise. The announcement was made during the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment® Worldwide Invitational at the Porte de Versailles Convention Centre in Paris, France. A cinematic trailer and an extended gameplay demonstration with commentary from the development team introduced the game to the thousands of players in attendance. "

After 6 days intension and guess, we finally got the answer. It's worthy to wait such a long time for its release.

I'm just watching the videos and screenshots now, the gameplay video of barbarian is awersome.

So, I think I may not sleep well tonight, maybe u r the same lol. The only thing I wanna know is when will it be released?

Will Diablo3 come on WWI2008?

Jun 24, 2008

You may have noticed there's a mysterious wallpaper that in blizzard's official site two days ago.

What does it mean? A rune was found in the wallpaper. Someone guess it's belong to rune of Frostmourn, and someone think it's the rune in diablo2. That's interesting because if it's the latter one, that means .... right, DIABLO3!!!

And official site updated the wallpaper yesterday, just the same scene, with two runes in it.

PS: In addition, there's a post on Gamespot that analyse why it's diablo3 not WOTLK.

Well, of course, I do expect it's the latter one. I've tried some diablo like game such as Titan Quests, Hellgate: London, Dungeon Siege and so on. They are good games too, but none of these games give me the feeling when I was addicted in diablo series.

So, what's the answer? Let's expecting it on WWI2008!

Runescape developer Jagex working on new MMO

Jun 22, 2008

Runescape developer Jagex has revealed it is working on a brand new MMO due for launch in March 2009.

The unnamed MMO was revealed by CEO Geoff Iddison during a panel discussion at today’s GameHorizon Conference in Newcastle.

Dubbed ‘Nextscape’ by Iddison, the game was said to incorporate – as Runescape does – a variety of business and subscription models to drive consumer engagement, he said.

However, although the company has run its successful Runescape MMO since 2001 – offering biweekly content updates - with the new property due to join it early next year, Iddison said that Jagex’ real value isn’t its IP, but its infrastructure.

“We’ve got an infrastructure behind Runescape which is the real silver of the Jagex, the value of the company,” said Iddison. “It’s not the game, the game is going to come and go,” he said.

“The infrastructure is the thing that can scale. Runescape has 10 years of good growth – but the infrastructure is infinitely scalable,” he added of Jagex’ vast operation of servers and online support teams.

Although Jagex employs 400 people at its Cambridge, UK HQ,

Spore Creature Creator is available now!

Jun 18, 2008

What is spore? Maybe some of u have heard it, but for those who didn't, it's too hard to describe what is spore in some words. Because it's a complicated game with much fun.

Spore is a multi-genre "massively single-player online game" under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The games and films with which Wright associated the various phases are:

   1. Pac-Man for the cell phase
   2. Diablo for the creature phase
   3. Populous for the tribal phase
   4. Simple versions of SimCity, Risk, and Civilization for the civilization phase
   5. SimEarth, Destroy All Humans!, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey for the space phase, with elements of sandbox gameplay.

And recently Spore Creature Creator is released and I just tasted it yesterday. It's very funny I could say! So I even kept playing it until 4 am this morning.

U can see what creature other ppl have designed here:
http://www.youtube.com/spore

The full version of the game is due to be released on September 5, 2008 in Europe, and September 7, 2008 in North America and other territories. So I'm looking forward to this great

My game life in AOC and a short review

Jun 13, 2008

After long time waiting, I started my adventure on anticipated game AOC several day ago.

I should say it's a nightmare that to dowload nearly 2G patches online. It's quite annoying when you see the speed 4-10 KB/S ... I wonder why didn't they make a manual patch to download?

Anyway I finished updating at last, and enter the world with excited heart. After type in my account and password, I need to create a new character. Yup u can customize many things as hair, eyes, chest, height... I can't count them all lol and I have no interest to waste time on customization. So I choose a Aquilonian Barbarian and click "play" immediately!

WOW! I should say I was shocked by the graphic first. Of course u should have a good comptuer spec to set graphic to "High" quality. Unlike the cartoon style in WOW, the AOC's graphic is reallife style. So u can enjoy beautiful scene here.

Then I pick my first quest, free Casilda by finding key on some mobs. So the first combat in AOC start! I simply click 1, 2, 3 on my keyboard to attack monsters, and they are killed rapidly. I feel myself full of power lol, well it's just level 1 monster, should I be so proud? Ca

World of World of Wacraft, WTF?

Jun 12, 2008

'Warcraft' Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing 'Warcraft'

The sequel to Blizzard's megahit lets gamers role-play as someone playing WoW, simulating keystrokes and featuring Hot Pockets eating support.

I cannot help laughing after watching this video. World of World of Wacraft, WTF? Just let u see how you play "World of Wacraft"? Yes maybe it's funny at first, but I believe I will bored soon.

AION US website alive! - Will it coming soon?

Jun 05, 2008

Yes, it's ture, visit http://www.aiononline.com/us, the new website of US AION.

"When there are so many exciting things happening, it is hard to pick one or two topics to blog about. Aion’s development is progressing nicely, and will be showcased at a number of conventions in coming months, more staff will be brought on the team in the near future, and today marks the launch of the new US and European Aion websites. The former three topics are more appropriate for blogs from others on the team or future announcements; the latter is a topic I want to chat about." ------------- NC Austin’s Community Relations Manager: Charles ‘kieron’ Dane

So, after long time waiting, it's approaching. I'm looking forward to it although I'm playing Age of Conan now. I'm ready to start a fresh adventure.

Let's enjoy some new screenshots on the official site together:

NHN To Publish MMO FPS Huxley In Europe, U.S

Jun 04, 2008

There's a rumor that NHN Games will acquire Webzen several days ago. They denied it through announcement though, Webzen is still in a predicament.

And whether the rumor is ture or not, they are joining hands with each other this time at least. Hope Webzen can survive and make more good MMOs for us.
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Publisher NHN USA, a subsidiary of Korean internet company NHN, has announced that it has secured the rights to publish the PC release of MMO first-person shooter Huxley in North America and Western Europe in late 2008. The title will arrive via gaming portal ijji.com. Details for publishing the Xbox 360 release were not revealed.

Developed by Seoul-based studio Webzen, Huxley combines the fast-paced gameplay of the first-person shooter genre with the character development of MMOs. The developer sold Huxley’s Chinese rights to MMO operator The9 for $35 million in February 2007.

NHN USA’s ijji.com portal claims over six million registered gamers. The site hosts a diverse selection of free-to-play online titles, each with optional micro-currency models offering purchasable in-game items. ijji.com currently hosts Gunbound Revolution, D