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Posted 06/30/08 at 07:07:48 PM | by Nathan Grayson

Everyone, I have huge news! Diablo III was announced. With the Internet drooling and licking its chops in eager anticipation of Blizzard's latest devil-puncher, I figured you wouldn't be needing me today. However, gaming news moves with blinding speed, and there is life after Blizzard's Big Day. Thus, I've brought you all kinds of stories -- and only one or two of them are about Blizzard. Promise! Jump past the break to read all about it.

Blizzard's Sams: Microsoft Should Put More Emphasis On PC Gaming

As Sams points out, Microsoft is both a hardware and software developer, and stands to gain a pretty penny (thing is like a mirror!) from both sides of their business. However, their entertainment division, which houses the Xbox brand, only recently began to rake in more cash than it spattered out, whereas Windows is the most prominent OS in the world. Could the Xbox pull in more money than Windows sometime in the future? Possibly, but come on -- we're talking about Windows here. I have to side with Sams on this one.

Treyarch producer: Gearbox making 'a crappy war game'

Wow, where'd this come from? Sure, Treyarch is creating Call of Duty 5 with a renewed sense of determination, but guys, you don't buy an "I survived The Mega-Twister" T-Shirt until after you've lost your lunch on the ride. Gearbox has released two spectacular war games, and Treyarch has slapped-together a single mediocre one. Treyarch's wild bunch even went on to say that Brothers in Arms "isn't even in the same league" as COD5. Fightin' words? No, this means war.

Funcom: AoC is “undisputed #2 subscription MMO in the western world”

700,000 subscribers already. Does Blizzard have something to worry about? Probably not, but at least Conan has violently carved out a niche in the ever-expanding crowd that is the MMO market. It'll be interesting to see what happens when WoW: Wrath of the Lich King hits the shelves, though. Are Conan's mighty forces simply jaded WoW players? We'll find out sooner or later.

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TAGS:: gaming, Software, news, blizzard, activision, esa

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WE loyal fans of Blizzard will wait
Submitted by Larzs13 on Sun, 2008-07-06 20:48

We proud few will wait for Blizzard to give us the closets thing to perferction that we know here on this earth for they have never given us any thing that is bugy or any thing else unlike other game makers so if you want to speak ill of Blizzard stow it where the sun dont shine.

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Blindsided
Submitted by BloOdymAN666 on Tue, 2008-07-01 12:18

Woa I just got blindsided by that bit about Starcraft 2 not being released in '08. At least they aren't going to ...rush it out. bazing.

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I was wanting some Xbox
Submitted by praetor_alpha on Mon, 2008-06-30 21:08

I was wanting some Xbox smack talk in this article, but alas, there is none. Everyone has wanted MS to invest more in PC since ever, this is no news.

"No Starcraft 2 release in 2008": I can hear souls being crushed. Like anyone was seriously expecting it to come out this year anyway: IT'S BLIZZARD, PEOPLE, get real. Blizzard announces a game, then releases it about three or four years later, not 18 months later.

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Haha, I was thinking the
Submitted by Vahn16 on Mon, 2008-06-30 19:08

Haha, I was thinking the exact same thing earlier today. Also, they're just about the only company that's still running full steam ahead on PC exclusives.

With the "good games only" thing, though, Blizzard's trend sort of feeds itself. Can you think of any other company that waited nearly a decade to re-deploy one of its three pillars? Blizzard can afford it. But hey, quality over quantity works for me. The real question is, can anyone successfully imitate Blizzard's business model?

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WoW
Submitted by Lawrence Chang on Mon, 2008-06-30 18:40

AoC was a bigger hit than i thought. With other attempts at it such as Fury and other failed projects, I'm quite pleased that it has even stayed on xfire top10 for quite this long...

Anyways, has anyone realized that Blizzard has never released a "bad" game? Just a thought.

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they just never finish
Submitted by norman on Mon, 2008-06-30 19:32

they just never finish making the games that they think will end up bad.

-- Norm

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ghost
Submitted by austin on Tue, 2008-07-01 07:06

:'( I was really looking forward to SC Ghost. I don't see how it could have possibly been a bad game.

I was extremely disappointed when they switched it from PC to consoles. When they canceled it, I didn't care that much since it wasn't going to be on PC anyway.

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Apparently, it was actually
Submitted by Vahn16 on Mon, 2008-06-30 18:28

Apparently, it was actually an Activision spokesperson who said it -- not someone from Treyarch. I'll be covering that tomorrow. Still though, it's a pretty stupid comment to make. This isn't professional wrestling.

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Treyarch producer: Gearbox making 'a crappy war game'
Submitted by pepper_roni on Mon, 2008-06-30 18:21

LOL. Fuck them. COD3 was ass compared to COD2 and Brothers in Arms focus on characters is a great angle for a game.

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