World of Warcraft Has Lost Over a Million Subscribers Since May 2012

One forlorn looking Pandaren and what the servers will look like one day.

No one can say that World of Warcraft isn’t the master of subscription based MMORPGs but the games number to fluctuate and this is one of those times again. The most recent subscriptions numbers for World of Warcraft were released yesterday in the Activision Blizzard earnings report for the second quarter of 2012.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Dawnguard is Now Available for PC but Not PlayStation 3

What PlayStation 3 players will look like when Dawnguard finally comes out.

Bethesda Softworks have announced today that the first official Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC Dawnguard is now available on PC. It can be bought on Steam purchased through Steam for £13.99 which I think is more than Xbox 360 version was on the Xbox Live Marketplace. However the PlayStation 3 versions has been indefinitely delayed.

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My Opinion: Star Wars The Old Republic Subscriptions Plummet and is Now Going Free-To-Play

Cartel Coins the birth of a new conspiracy logo.

BioWare have announced yesterday that its top budget MMORPG will be adding a free-to-play option by this Autumn. The game will also be going on sale in August for $14.99 (£9.61) with a free one month subscription included for people who might want to get involved in the game before free to play changes happen. As Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to free to play get ready to hear about Cartel Coins a lot.

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Minecraft Patch 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 is Now Available

This isn’t what I thought desert villages would look like.

Minecraft version 1.3.1 is now officially released for all you Minecraft fans to try out. This update is quite big and adds plenty of new features such as “demo mode for non-premium users”, “Adventure mode”, “trading”, various “Tempel” types, “Emerald Ore” and much more. They have also added cool little subtlety things like “water slowly drips through them when it’s raining” on leaves and cauldrons “slowly fill up when it’s raining”.

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Battlefield 3 Now has Over 1.3 Million Premium Members

Look at how happy he is and they say war is hell.

Electronic Arts announced yesterday that Battlefield 3 Premium subscriptions have passed way over the one million mark. According to Electronic Arts fiscal report for the first financial quarter of 2013, the number of Battlefield 3 Premium subscriptions our around 1.3 million. Last month around 800,000 players had signed up for Battlefield 3 Premium in its first two weeks of availability.

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Steam Sale: Save 75% of the Summer Indie Bundles

Way too many games for one single person to play.

As part of Steams Midweek Madness you can once again get the Summer Indie Bundles. The Summer Indie Bundles? It is a load of indie games at reduced prices on Steam all put together into several different indie bundles. Each bundle normally cost £27.99 but now they are £6.99 each. Be warned you can’t save money on individual games you have to buy the whole indie bundle.

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Rumor: Bethesda Now Owns S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Franchise Rights

Hopefully the future games will again be similar in tone to the 1979 film.

A Ukraine report has announced that apparently Bethesda Softworks the publisher of great games such as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3 have gained the publishing rights to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise. The new S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 game was canceled earlier this year when the developer GSC Game World when out of business.

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