The Big WoWThe Big WoW

Should people be allowed to be anonymous online? World of Warcraft developer Blizzard seems somewhat unde­cided. Earlier this week, it intro­duced a Real ID scheme that would force people to post under their real names on its forums. Following wide­spread protests at this movement of goal­posts — from pretty-​​​​much 12mn of

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Viral WoW

Blizzard, the company behind the most suc­cessful and prof­it­able enter­tain­ment fran­chise in the world*, World of Warcraft, held a mini-​​​​conference in Paris last week to announce that a second sequel to its Diablo series — Diablo III — was in devel­op­ment. Unlike a lot of press con­fer­ences, they invited along lots of fans, active forum members

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