Riot Games today announced League of Legends, a PC game based on the popular Warcraft 3 multiplayer mod Defense of the Ancients. Riot was co-founded by original DotA Allstars co-creator Guinsoo, and the team reportedly includes other DotA veterans. As such, League of Legends is staying true to the DotA formula, where players level up [...]
Warcraft Mod Creators Ready LOLs
November 17th, 2009
World of Warcraft (Not Miis) Influenced 360 Avatars, Says Microsoft
November 12th, 2009
Microsoft has finally confronted the criticism–whether fair or not–that the company cribbed Nintendo’s Mii avatars for inclusion in its upcoming New Xbox Experience, the dashboard overhaul coming in November.“It’s not like Nintendo created the concept for having a virtual character,” Xbox director of marketing Albert Penello said to MTV Multiplayer. “A lot of people want [...]
Blizzard Uses Positive Words to Describe Next MMO
November 6th, 2009
Blizzard used last night’s launch of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to do a little more teasing about its “next-gen MMO” in the works, adding “cool” and “new” to the list of words deemed appropriate to describe the project about which little is known.“We want to create a great game,” said Blizzard [...]
Blizzard Likes Star Wars MMO, Continues Describing Next
November 3rd, 2009
Blizzard sees it as “a fact” that BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC) will be a great game. From the house of the world’s largest game, that’s quite a compliment, but COO Paul Sams was quick to offer some advice to the Austin, TX, studio looking to become Blizzard’s rival. Sams warned that BioWare [...]