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Paris getting hit by Blizzard Invitational '08 Paris getting hit by Blizzard Invitational '08 (10-05-2008)
"For most developers, hosting a convention dedicated solely to the company's
wares would be considered audacious at best. Of course, when that developer is
Blizzard Entertainment, and every game touched turns to gold--irrespective of
how long that alchemical process takes--one massive event per region is hardly
enough. With BlizzCon and the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational occupying North
America and Asian markets respectively last year, the Irvine, California-based
superdeveloper is pitching camp in Europe for the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment
Worldwide Invitational convention and tournament. The first-of-its-kind Blizzard
event for Europe is slated to run June 28-29 at the Porte de Versailles
Exposition Centre in Paris, France. Tickets are priced at €70 (about $110), and
go on sale Thursday, March 20 on the developer's official Web site for the
event. In addition to invite-only tournaments in which professional gamers will
vie for $100,000, the 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational will host a number of
casual tournaments, cosplay contests, live musical performances, and developer
meet and greets. Attendees will also receive a swag bag that contains an
exclusive WOW in-game pet as well as ""a beta key for an upcoming Blizzard
Entertainment game."" At last year's events, Blizzard's devout were first
enraptured by the long-awaited reveal of Starcraft II in Seoul and then sent
into a bona fide tizzy on the debut of World of Warcraft's next expansion--Wrath
of the Lich King--in Anaheim. This year, speculation is rife over whether
Blizzard will use the event to unveil its new, original massively multiplayer
online game. There's also speculation, fueled by several job postings on the
developer's Web site, that the next installment in the infernal Diablo franchise
could debut. In a study conducted by Jane Barnett and colleagues at Middlesex
University, psychologists found that gamers were more likely to be calm or
simply tired after playing, rather than itching to go outside and kick someone's
head in.
The researchers surveyed 292 male and female online gamers aged between 12 and
83 and had them play the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of
Warcraft. They were asked to complete a survey about anger, aggression, and
personality prior to and following a two-hour session of WOW, which is only
rated T for Teen in the US and 12+ in the UK. Mostly, the researchers found that
people were more tranquil after a good bout of Azerothian bloodletting. ""There
were actually higher levels of relaxation before and after playing the game, as
opposed to experiencing anger,"" Barnett said in a statement before adding the
caveat, ""This did very much depend on personality " "In February, game industry
luminaries congregated en masse on two separate occasions to share ideas,
schmooze, and honor the best games of 2007. or wow
For the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' part, top award winners at the
D.I.C.E. Summit included Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 and Blizzard
Entertainment's World of Warcraft. Two weeks later, the Game Developers
Conference counsel heaped accolades upon Valve Corp. world
of warcraft powerleveling for the deranged first-person puzzler Portal,
which came packed in with The Orange Box. Not content to just make great games,
it now appears many of these award winning studios are also great places to
work, according to a recent study conducted by Game Developers Conference
organizers CMP Group by way of Think Services for Game Developer magazine and
its Game Developer Research division. In conducting its study, Think Service
combined sales and marketing stats with survey data gleaned from game developers
and other professionals within the industry. wow po
Perched atop the rankings was Nintendo's Kyoto studio, which is responsible for
top-selling Nintendo DS and Wii titles Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Brain Age and
its sequel.
According to CMP, survey respondents called out the studio's focus on quality in
particular. Coming in at second was the Activision-owned studio Infinity Ward,
which was praised for its working conditions, professionalism, and attention to
quality. eve isk
Rounding out the top five were World of Warcraft purveyors Blizzard
Entertainment; Electronic Arts' Canada outfit, which handles FIFA Soccer 08 and
NBA Street: Homecourt; and Valve, which most recently developed The Orange Box
and operates the online distribution mainstay Steam. Bethesda, you're kidding me
right. The same developer that lets you manipulate the world of lame AI in
Morrowind and Oblivion. wow
powerleveling Sure they have a great idea, and because of the sheer scope
and size of the world people tend to be more forgiving, but really the only way
to play those games is to define your own rules. Otherwise it is just too easy
to manipulate the AI and all that is broken... And bioware hasn't had a game
worth talking about since KOTOR. " .
wares would be considered audacious at best. Of course, when that developer is
Blizzard Entertainment, and every game touched turns to gold--irrespective of
how long that alchemical process takes--one massive event per region is hardly
enough. With BlizzCon and the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational occupying North
America and Asian markets respectively last year, the Irvine, California-based
superdeveloper is pitching camp in Europe for the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment
Worldwide Invitational convention and tournament. The first-of-its-kind Blizzard
event for Europe is slated to run June 28-29 at the Porte de Versailles
Exposition Centre in Paris, France. Tickets are priced at €70 (about $110), and
go on sale Thursday, March 20 on the developer's official Web site for the
event. In addition to invite-only tournaments in which professional gamers will
vie for $100,000, the 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational will host a number of
casual tournaments, cosplay contests, live musical performances, and developer
meet and greets. Attendees will also receive a swag bag that contains an
exclusive WOW in-game pet as well as ""a beta key for an upcoming Blizzard
Entertainment game."" At last year's events, Blizzard's devout were first
enraptured by the long-awaited reveal of Starcraft II in Seoul and then sent
into a bona fide tizzy on the debut of World of Warcraft's next expansion--Wrath
of the Lich King--in Anaheim. This year, speculation is rife over whether
Blizzard will use the event to unveil its new, original massively multiplayer
online game. There's also speculation, fueled by several job postings on the
developer's Web site, that the next installment in the infernal Diablo franchise
could debut. In a study conducted by Jane Barnett and colleagues at Middlesex
University, psychologists found that gamers were more likely to be calm or
simply tired after playing, rather than itching to go outside and kick someone's
head in.
The researchers surveyed 292 male and female online gamers aged between 12 and
83 and had them play the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of
Warcraft. They were asked to complete a survey about anger, aggression, and
personality prior to and following a two-hour session of WOW, which is only
rated T for Teen in the US and 12+ in the UK. Mostly, the researchers found that
people were more tranquil after a good bout of Azerothian bloodletting. ""There
were actually higher levels of relaxation before and after playing the game, as
opposed to experiencing anger,"" Barnett said in a statement before adding the
caveat, ""This did very much depend on personality " "In February, game industry
luminaries congregated en masse on two separate occasions to share ideas,
schmooze, and honor the best games of 2007. or wow
For the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' part, top award winners at the
D.I.C.E. Summit included Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 and Blizzard
Entertainment's World of Warcraft. Two weeks later, the Game Developers
Conference counsel heaped accolades upon Valve Corp. world
of warcraft powerleveling for the deranged first-person puzzler Portal,
which came packed in with The Orange Box. Not content to just make great games,
it now appears many of these award winning studios are also great places to
work, according to a recent study conducted by Game Developers Conference
organizers CMP Group by way of Think Services for Game Developer magazine and
its Game Developer Research division. In conducting its study, Think Service
combined sales and marketing stats with survey data gleaned from game developers
and other professionals within the industry. wow po
Perched atop the rankings was Nintendo's Kyoto studio, which is responsible for
top-selling Nintendo DS and Wii titles Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Brain Age and
its sequel.
According to CMP, survey respondents called out the studio's focus on quality in
particular. Coming in at second was the Activision-owned studio Infinity Ward,
which was praised for its working conditions, professionalism, and attention to
quality. eve isk
Rounding out the top five were World of Warcraft purveyors Blizzard
Entertainment; Electronic Arts' Canada outfit, which handles FIFA Soccer 08 and
NBA Street: Homecourt; and Valve, which most recently developed The Orange Box
and operates the online distribution mainstay Steam. Bethesda, you're kidding me
right. The same developer that lets you manipulate the world of lame AI in
Morrowind and Oblivion. wow
powerleveling Sure they have a great idea, and because of the sheer scope
and size of the world people tend to be more forgiving, but really the only way
to play those games is to define your own rules. Otherwise it is just too easy
to manipulate the AI and all that is broken... And bioware hasn't had a game
worth talking about since KOTOR. " .
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