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DICE 2012: Blizzard's Pearce on World Of Warcraft's launch hangover

9 Feb 2012

Talking alongside Insomniac's Ted Price and Epic's Mike Capps during the DICE executive summit in Las Vegas, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce discussed the amazing launch of World Of Warcraft and the growing pains the company has dealt with ever since. In a wide-ranging panel, Pearce noted that the Blizzard team now includes an eye-opening 4,700 employees, across 11 cities. Although the majority ...

DICE: Why Asteroids, Battlezone Creators Are Going Mobile

9 Feb 2012

by Kyle Orland, Ars Technica If there are any people who can make sense of the recent, meteoric rise of mobile and social games, it’s probably the people behind the golden age of arcade gaming in the early ’80s. Just such a group drew a lot of parallels between the two gaming eras at a [...]

DICE 2012: Putting story before gameplay 'a waste of time' says Jaffe

9 Feb 2012

"I don't have any slides," Jaffe apologized at the start of his DICE 2012 speech in Las Vegas on Thursday. "I've been spending the last few days offending women," he joked. Known for his outspoken, open approach to interacting with the video game community, Jaffe was in hot water recently for saying in an interview, that if you buy his upcoming game Twisted Metal, your girlfriend would "suck ...