Blizzard Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Former Blizzard devs at Booyah plan iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (May 1st, 2009)

Booyah is a company put together by former Blizzard devs (makers of classic games like World of Warcraft and Diablo) and funded by the iFund, and they've been keeping fairly mum on what they've been up to. Until now, that is -- they've updated their website and dropped a press release, and it looks ...

Blizzard releasing Mobile Authenticator for iPhone, iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (Mar 19th, 2009)

Blizzard is one of the biggest software developers in the world -- they're behind some of the most popular games of all time, including the Diablo series, and of course their legendary MMO World of Warcraft (full disclosure: I'm a senior editor over on TUAW's sister site about that game, WoW ...

Blizzard announces Diablo III for Mac

by Mat Lu (Jun 29th, 2008)

Blizzard has always been a (the?) Mac-friendly game developer and they have now officially announced the forthcoming release of Diablo III. Nearly a decade after the last installment of the popular action-RPG, Blizzard plans a simultaneous release for Mac and PC (just like StarCraft II). As of yet ...

iPod easter egg in Starcraft II

by Mike Schramm (Aug 15th, 2007)

AJ noticed something funny at BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment's big gaming convention out in Anaheim, CA the other week-- hidden inside Starcraft II, Blizzard's upcoming RTS game, is this little nod to the iPod. Hidden on a little billboard in the game's futuristic setting is an ad for the ...

World of Warcraft Mac client adds builtin movie capture

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2007)

Some of you might already know that I do some other blogging work on another Weblogs, Inc. blog called WoW Insider, all about World of Warcraft, the MMORPG videogame. Most gaming companies tend to shy away from the Mac, but Blizzard has always been the exception. And with World of Warcraft, there ...

Starcraft II will be on the Mac (and PC)

by Scott McNulty (May 19th, 2007)

Let me start this out by saying that I am not a gamer, which usually isn't a problem given I use a Mac (let's be honest, the Mac isn't the best platform for gaming). Despite my non-gamer status I loved StarCraft. I spent many, many more hours than I should have sending my brave Marines off to ...

Blizzard: We won't stop Mac development

by Dave Caolo (Apr 14th, 2006)

Blizzard Entertainment, creators of highly addictive cross-platform games like World of Warcraft (among others) have announced their intentions to continue work on Mac-native games. In a statement earlier in the week, the company said, “We have a recognized track record of native Mac OS ...

Blizzard says Universal Binary for WoW by late January

by Damien Barrett (Jan 11th, 2006)

We all know that Apple announced the release of the first Macs to use Intel chips. To get full speed and compatibility out of applications that run in Mac OS X on Intel-based Macs, programs need to be recompiled to run natively on the Intel processors. Apple's coding tools allow for a program to be ...