The recent expansion to World of Warcraft, Cataclysm sold 3.3 million copies (retail + digital) on its first day. It’s gone one to sell even more copies, now totalling 4.7 million sold; making it the biggest selling PC game ever. While some might consider it unfair to consider it for such an accolade considering it’s an expansion, those that have …
The third expansion pack to the absurdly popular MMO World of Warcraft, Cataclysm, has broken previous records set by the series. Although no distinction between physical and digital sales was given, the expansion made its way in to 3.3 million homes in its first 24 hours on sale. Sure, it’s less than 5.5 million units Black Ops sold in its …
The Xbox 360 and PS3 are not known for their massively multiplayer online games. While there have been a few such games to grace consoles, like Final Fantasy X1 on the 360, and upcoming DC Universe online and Final Fantasy XIV on PS3, the nature of console’s peer-to-peer networking ensures that implementing and maintaining large online universes for consoles is …
World of Warcraft : Cataclysm, the expansion to the evergreen MMO that keeps agoraphobes in their chairs was released to retail at midnight. We were on hand at Greenstone Mall where there was not one, or even two – but three midnight launches for the game. The stores in question; BT Games, Exclus1ve books and Look & Listen were open …
Today will mark the biggest change to World of Warcraft’s landscape since the game originally launched. The game’s third expansion focuses on the transformation of Azeroth through the cataclysmic events resulting from evil dragon Deathwing the Destroyer’s return. It’ll bring with it around 3500 new quests, two new races, more classes, stats and other things MMO nuts go crazy for. …
Bioware’s MMORPG set in the Star Wars galaxy, The Old Republic, has been given a release window. This is the first official guesstimate from Electronic Arts, who has taken over as the publisher alongside Lucasarts. According to them, we can expect to Force choke people across the galaxy in EA’s  financial year 2012. Don’t panic; that isn’t as far off …
Many gamers were blissfully unaware that Exclusive books had entered the video game retailing business – until their Flashmob sale yesterday, where they pretty much gave away games including Fable 3, Dead Rising 2, FIFA 11 for the absurd cost of R50. Now that you know they’re in the game of getting you games, they’re going to try endear themselves …
Video games are increasingly becoming a factor in the crumbling of relationships. So says a Daily Mail reported survey by One-Poll.com, anyway. The survey polled 1500 gamers and their partners – and the conclusion is that video games break hearts. On out of 10 respondents claimed they’d skipped a date or rejected sex in favour of playing video games. I …
City life is a game of optimality. In the small studio apartments of Vancouver …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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