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Day 7 of Amazon’s 17 Days of Deals is all about Blizzard

Amazon’s 17 Days of Deals video game sale continues, and it’s time for the seventh day update! Today (December 6, 2010) is the perfect day to shop for Windows or Mac gamer. It’s a Blizzard-centric sale, with all kinds of World of Warcraft, Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft sales available.

Here’s the full list of Blizzard goodness you can pick up on sale at Amazon today, complete with the sale and normal prices. All are playable on both Windows and Macs…

Gamertell Review: The Shattering: A Prelude to Cataclysm by Christie Golden

Title: The Shattering: A Prelude to Cataclysm (aka World of Warcraft: The Shattering: A Prelude to Cataclysm) Authors (Editor): Christie Golden Publisher: Simon & Schuster Release Date: October 2010 Price: US $26.00 (Hardcover list price) Rating: One thumb Up, One thumb Sideways; 85/100; B; * * * 1/2 out of five. Pros: Strong characters, great more »

World of Warcraft: More than 11.5 million served

World of Warcraft has reached another milestone thanks, in part, to the success of Wrath of the Lich King. Over 11.5 million people paying to play World of Warcraft – isn’t that kind of crazy? Amazing.

Blizzard announced this huge figure today, and also gave credit to the expansion for helping to give a little extra boost to the MMORPG’s success. After all, over 4 million copies of Wrath of the Lich King were sold. The expansion probably helped to not only attract new fans, but even lure in old players who had previously kicked the habit.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King costs $39.99 (unless you manage to find it on sale somewhere this holiday season). Of course you’ll also need the original World of Warcraft

7-Eleven getting into video game retail biz for the holidays, possibly longer

Ever have one of those nights where you just can’t seem to sleep? There’s nothing on the tube and you just have the itch to play a game, but none of the ones on your shelf. Now, there might finally be a place to accommodate your late night gaming and muchie binges. Since GameStop feels the need to close so early, 7-Eleven has taken upon itself to be your late night gaming fix.

With the earliest foray into the gaming market being the release of mega-popular alien shooting, Mountain Dew branding, Halo 3, for the company, their latest exploits in, um, selling Gears of War 2 and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King before their respective street dates, the company has been getting a lot of attention in the gaming media.

Now it seems, according to an article by GameSpot, 7-Eleven will be getting into the video game retail market full-time, starting with some of this holiday’s big releases including…

Swedish teen suffers seizure after 24-hour World of Warcraft: Lich King marathon

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King has been out for less than a week and it seems the expansion has already claimed its first official casualty.

Right off the heels of a European gamer reaching level 80 in Wrath of the Lich King in 27 hours, Kotaku reports that a 15-year-old boy from Sweden suffered an epileptic seizure after playing Wrath of the Lich King for 24 hours straight.

According to the boy’s doctors, his bodily functions had been…

11 Million served in World of Warcraft

Holy gilded Loincloth – World of Warcraft, already hailed as the best and most ambitious massive multiplayer game of our time, has just reached 11 million subscribers worldwide – that’s a whole hell of a lot of grinding. We all know that the game is huge (huge isn’t big enough of a word to describe more »

BlizzCon 2008: World of Warcraft to get character upgrade microtransactions

Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson and World of Warcraft (WoW) production director J. Allen Brack recently took to the stage at a BlizzCon 2008 press conference in California to answer fan questions about Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated sequel and its ever popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) respectively.

In addition to confirming that Blizzard is looking to monetize Battle.net — news that was later elaborated on with confirmation that Diablo III won’t be subscription based — Brack responded to the recent confusion regarding the discovery of…

Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational heading to Europe in June 2008

After already touring across the United States and Asia, Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational is making its way to Europe. This will be the fourth such Invitational, which will take place at Porte De Versailles Exposition Center in Paris, France, June 28-29, 2008.

Fans at this year’s event will get the chance to rub shoulders with Blizzard’s key artist, writers, developers and masterminds behind such epic titles as World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. Attendees will also be able to take part in a silent auction while listening to musical performances of many classic Blizzard tracks.

The highlight of the two-day event will no doubt be the…