Blizzard don't expect World of Warcraft subscriptions to grow again
World of Warcraft subscriptions have fallen again, Blizzard reported two weeks ago. WoW player numbers peaked in the wake of Wrath of the Lich King, but have been falling year-on-year ever since.
Mists of Pandaria offered a brief upsurge, but Blizzard aren’t even counting on one of those come Warlords of Draenor’s release in November. WoW is still the biggest subscription MMO in the world, but it might never see another peak.
How a working 1kb hard drive was built in Minecraft
Notch might not have finished his second intended opus, 0x10c, but it was far enough along for us to identify the common threads in his games: home, the frontier, and a love of coding.
Budding computer scientists long ago recognised that last part in Minecraft’s redstone circuits. Here’s their latest achievement: a functional hard drive, built without recourse to Minecraft mods.
Atari's latest PC reboot is Alone in the Dark: Illumination
Alone in the Dark is getting another reboot, and a subtitle that can’t be written in a sans-serif font without looking like roman numerals. Illumination is a PC-only game due out in the Autumn.
Jonathan Blow and friends to fund Rainbow Six-ish tactical FPS Due Process
The Indie Fund is the closest thing independent development has to a guardian angel. Founded by some of the beneficiaries of the very first indie boom (Braid’s Jonathan Blow, World of Goo’s 2D Boy), its loans are designed to help developers make enough money to self-fund their next game.
After Monaco, Dear Esther and Antichamber, the Fund's latest catch is Due Process: a multiplayer tactical shooter in which players spend as much time drawing up plans as they do shooting each other.
Valve voted the company developers most want to work for, ahead of BioWare and Ubisoft
More developers would like to work for Valve than be successful indies, a survey published this week reveals.
The International Game Developers Association asked more than 2,200 devs who the most desirable employer in the business is - and the sadistic minds behind City 17 and Aperture Science won out.
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