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Blizzard’s recent decision to block accounts deemed to have been using Hearthstone bots has forced one company to close its doors. Those visiting the Crawlerbots website, who make Hearthstone bot Hearthcrawler and World of Warcraft bot Warcrawler, are now greeted with the following message: This is our last official announcement. …
Read More »Blizzard bans ‘several thousand’ Hearthstone bot accounts
Card battler Hearthstone is now several thousand users lighter after Blizzard embarked on a bot-bashing spree. We’ve recently banned several thousand Hearthstone accounts that were associated with the use of third-party programs that automate gameplay, otherwise known as ‘bots’,” the developer said. These accounts will be banned until 2015. As …
Read More »Hearthstone producer making GAME appearance tonight
The executive producer of Blizzard’s card battle Hearthstone is making a UK retail appearance tonight. Hamilton Chu will arrive at GAME’s Westfield Stratford store tonight (October 23rd) from 5pm-8pm to sign posters and answer questions. It’s all designed to promote GAME’s upcoming Fireside Gatherings events that are scheduled for next …
Read More »Metallica to close BlizzCon 2014
American heavy metal band Metallica will play at BlizzCon 2014 in Los Angeles next month. The band will feature as part of the closing concert on November 8th, with virtual tickets available for those who haven’t got tickets for the sold out event but wish to access a stream. Performers …
Read More »Hearthstone delayed on iPhone and Android smartphones until 2015
Blizzard has revealed that both the iPhone and Android smartphone versions of Hearthstone won’t now arrive this side of Christmas. The card battler is already available on iPad but was due to hit other mobile platforms this summer. Instead, while the Android tablet version is still due out before year …
Read More »World of Warcraft subscriptions shoot up by over 600,000 ahead of Warlords of Draenor
It seems that World of Warcraft is regaining some of its previously lost users ahead of its next big expansion. Blizzard announced during its latest earnings calls that its MMO had seen subscriptions jump by over 600,000 ahead of the release of World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor on November …
Read More »Next Hearthstone expansion will include over 100 new cards
Blizzard has said that it hopes to offer over 100 new cards when it rolls out its next expansion to free-to-play card game Hearthstone. "I think we’re going to mix it up a little bit with this next release," production director Jason Chayes told Polygon. "It will have a lot …
Read More »Blizzard has cancelled MMO title Titan
Mystery MMO Titan has been scrapped by Blizzard after seven years of development. "We had created World of Warcraft, and we felt really confident that we knew how to make MMOs," Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime told Polygon. "So we set out to make the most ambitious thing that you could …
Read More »Blizzard cancels Project Titan
WoW firm’s unannounced MMO was “the most ambitious thing you could possibly imagine” but scrapped after seven years
Read More »Is the end nigh for World of Warcraft?
It’s taken almost ten years but it appears that World of Warcraft’s story is drawing to a close. Over the last four years the game’s subscriber base has shrunk from 12m to 6.8m. And even the game’s developer Blizzard isn’t convinced the game will grow again. It is possible, although …
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