Kotaku: Warcraft Iii

Can Valve Really Make a Sequel For a Game They Didn't Create?

Brian Crecente — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EDT

Gabe Newell has a problem. More »

Warcraft III-Inspired Heroes of Newerth Goes Free-To-Play

Brian Crecente — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EDT

Warcraft III-Inspired Heroes of Newerth Goes Free-To-Play" alt="Click here to read Warcraft III-Inspired Heroes of Newerth Goes Free-To-Play" src="http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/9/2011/07/small_kill_stealers_full.jpg"/>

Multiplayer, action role-playing game Heroes of Newerth is now free-to-play, with developer reorganizing the Warcraft III Defense of the Ancients inspired game to include three types of accounts, developer S2 Games tells Kotaku. More »

Blizzard Says Valve's DOTA Trademark "Doesn't Seem The Right Thing To Do"

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:30:00 EDT

Defence of the Ancients Allstars was a Warcraft III mod. Now, Valve is trying to trademark the name. That doesn't sit very well with Blizzard, the developers of Warcraft III. More »

Trash-Talking Warcraft III Gamer Gets Fingers Broken In Revenge Beating

Owen Good — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:30:00 EDT

A Canadian high schooler playing Warcraft III gloated a little too much over a recent victory, and his opponents found that so unsporting they decided to do something even more unsporting: track him down at lunch and beat his ass. More »

New Defense of the Ancients Trademark Points To Valve

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:40:00 EDT

Rumors that Valve is planning on doing more with ultra-popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients All-Stars—or DotA—feel a lot less rumor-like now. The Half-Life developer recently trademarked "DOTA" for future use. More »

League of Legends Going Mac

Brian Crecente — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:02:20 EDT

Popular Warcraft III spin-off League of Legends is coming to the Mac this summer. Players will be able to download the game for free once it hits. More »

Blizzard Bans 320,000 Cheaters From Warcraft, Diablo

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:30:00 EDT

Blizzard, the company behind the Warcraft and Diablo franchises, does not screw around when it swings the banhammer, booting 320,000 online accounts tonight from some of its most popular games. More »

Relax, Warcraft III Just Got Patched

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:00:00 EDT

Warcraft III, a PC (and Mac!) game released almost eight years ago, just got a couple of new, official patches. Now that's some post-release support. More »

World of Warcraft Turns 5: How Blizzard Built A Nation

Mike Fahey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:40:00 EST

World of Warcraft was launched five years ago today, and Kotaku is celebrating all week long, starting with a look at the Warcraft franchise's fifteen-year history with key members of Blizzard's development team. More »

League of Legends Review: Free, Addictive, Worthy

Brian Crecente — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST

What started as a modification of Warcraft III by a group of fans has turned into an ambitious free-to-play PC strategy title packed with a surprising amount of tactics in an easy to pick-up-and-play package. More »

Valve Snaps Up Defense of the Ancients Dev

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:40:00 EDT

Valve has made a hire that should perk up the ears of the Warcraft III mod community, as "IceFrog," the current developer of ultra popular Defense of the Ancients Allstars, has found gainful employment at the house of Half-Life. More »

League Of Legends Won't Cost You A Dime

Mike Fahey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:20:00 EDT

Riot Games announces today that its upcoming Warcraft III mod turned full game League of Legends will be free-to-play, with a premium retail edition available for those that would rather pay. More »

Korean Player Getting Over $470,000 To Play WarCraft III

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:00:00 EDT

Professional gaming is big in Korea. How big? Over four hundred thousand smackeroos big. Player Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang has signed a contract for US$473,037 to play WarCraft III. More »

Halo Wars Gets Korean TV Show

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:00:00 EST

Korean gamers don't just love playing, but watching others play games, too! Korean network MBC Game has been broadcasting real-time-strategy game StarCraft matches for year. So broadcasting RTS Halo Wars makes sense. More »

From Warcraft Obsession to Game Creation

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:30:00 EST

What do you get when you take one of the world's most popular player-made Warcraft III mods and break it out into its own game? League of Legends: Clash of Fates. More »

Blizzard Bans 350,000 Dirty, Cheating Battle.netters

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:40:24 EST

Microsoft isn't the only one swinging the account crushing banhammer just before the holiday rush. Blizzard has suspended an impressive 350,000 Battle.net accounts identified as using "third-party hacks" in both StarCraft and Diablo II. According to folks at Blizzard, this is on top of an additional 7,700 Warcraft III accounts getting the same treatment. We won't miss you, you cheating sons of bitches — no postcards necessary. The full warning statement and explanation for banning follows. More »

China Getting StarCraft II, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Blizzard is rolling out a bunch of its MMOs in China. Striking a joint venture with NetEase.com affiliate Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology Limited, Blizzard will be introducing StarCraft II, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, and Battle.net platform. Says Blizzard's CEO Mike Morhaime: More »

Amazon Gold Boxes Blizzard's Best

Mike Fahey — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:40:00 EDT

As I am writing this I am watching the clock slowly tick down on the Diablo Battlechest for $27.99, wondering whether or not I should just go ahead and make the purchase or spend hours sorting through my collection of over a thousand PC CDs and DVDs, searching for the copies I already own. Today Amazon.com is all about Blizzard's big games, which makes sense considering Blizzard isn't exactly known for their small ones. The Deal of the Day is the World Of Warcraft Battlechest for $26.99, which is nice considering the expansion alone still goes for $30 in most stores. More »

Warcraft III Patch Rap Battles

Mike Fahey — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:20:10 EST

This could be the beginning of a huge trend. Eagerly awaiting news of a patch for Warcraft III, official forum poster TowerPowerNerf was getting increasingly frustrated. When the Blizzard RTS Community Manager Karune posted news that there would be no WCIII patch before 2008, something inside TPN broke, and he did the only thing a man with nothing else to lose can do. He created a rap video. Not a particularly good rap video mind you, but he certainly put a lot of effort into, breaking out his best approximation of the English language to make sure his point was heard. Imagine if all heated forum posts eventually jumped from flame war directly to rap off! The internet would be a better place, especially if the company's employees started responding in kind. Karune did. More »

MMO Jumper Wasn't a WoW Player

lsmith — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:03:43 EST

WoW Player" alt="Click here to read MMO Jumper Wasn't a WoW Player" src="http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/9/2005/11/72akopa-original-thumb.jpg"/>

Gamepolitics clears up what many sites (us included) reported on a Chinese MMO player who flung himself from a window. It seems that the 13-year-old wasn't playing World of Warcraft, but instead was playing Blizzard's RTS Warcraft III. Big difference, hopefully other sites will pull WoW's name from the mud. More »