"The History Of
WarCraft"
Blizzard
Entertainment's most recent release was the
World of Warcraft: The Burning
Crusade®
expansion set for Blizzard's
award-winning subscription based super multi-player online
role-playing game, World of
Warcraft.
Launched in January 2007 simultaniously in
North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia,
and Thailand much to the delight of the gaming community around the
globe.
The Expansion pack
- World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade sold a
record-setting 2.4 million copies
in its first 24 hours of
availability, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all
time -- a mark previously held by Warcraft III:
Reign of Chaos , it
went on to sell 3.5 million copies within its first month
making it the World most played online game EVER in the
history of Man, Elf, Wizard or Demon .
Since then the game has achieved
popularity on a global scale, with currently more
than 10 million
subscribers worldwide. It's available in seven different
languages based on players global regions and has
continously earned awards and high praise around the
world for graphics, playability and popularity just to name a
few.
Hold on Comrades it's coming to a computer
terminal near your soon, they are currently developing a
Russion language version.
At the 2007
BlizzCon™
convention, Blizzard announced they are
currently working on the second World of Warcraft expansion
the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich
King™.
We are all waiting with greedy little hands and
flaming breath, determined to be the first to get our hands on a
copy. At least I am!
The original
Warcraft game, Warcraft®: Orcs &
Humans™
voted one of the best strategy games of 1994,
(in my humble opinion THE BEST) and the sequel,
1995's Warcraft® II: Tides of
Darkness™, won several awards, including
"Game of the Year". (Imagine that!)
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, was
released in July 2002. It has also won
several w00ts and become one
of the standards of professional gaming, along with its
expansion pak Warcraft® III: The Frozen
Throne™, released in July 2003. Since
then they have literally become a part of our every
day lives. Yes boss, even around the water cooler!
As for the future of Blizzard Entertainment, I
don't see it fading out any time soon, so put on your
gtauntlets get out your sword, call in the team, get online and
Get It On!
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