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World of Warcraft Gamespot GOTY 2004

Posted by Zonk on from the for-gnomeregon! dept.

Gamespot's annual awards have drawn to a close, with the Reader's choice awards finishing up tomorrow. Announced on Wednesday, Gamespot's Game of the Year for 2004 is World of Warcraft. Relatedly, there is an interview with the WoW composer at World of Warcraft Guru, and a piece on Wired.com about Virtual Trade and Blizzard's efforts to combat the trend. Finally, Blizzard's annual holiday festivities have resulted in a hilarious holiday mp3 being made available on the official World of Warcraft site.

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  1. Blizzard is known for it's festivity! by ShallowThroat · · Score: 3, Informative

    Blizzard's annual holiday festivities have resulted in a hilarious holiday mp3 being made available

    Not only that, Blizzard has also made avaliable many in-game festivities, such as snowmen and snowballs. Perfect for whiping at the neighbouring horde villages. :)

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  2. IGN and Gamespy GOTY by WizardRahl · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gamespy GOTY 2004 was Halo2 and IGN PC GOTY was HalfLife2. You've got to thank slashdot for their impartiality... >:E Flame: Gaypot blows compared to ign and gamespy, and to think they make you pay to download compared to free fileplanet is laughable.

  3. Re:WoW by Teckla · · Score: 3, Informative

    As someone who's played WoW religiously (2 lvl16 characters on Shattered Hand), I think it's a truly awesome game. It's gigantic, first off, and it's extendable. I like most of the stuff Blizzard comes out with so that may be a bit of a bias. MMORPG's are fun, some of them...I'm really excited about Matrix Online but this is the same thing that happened when SWG came out...Can we have *one* good Sci-Fi MMORPG please?!?

    You might want to check out Anarchy Online. It's a sci-fi based MMORPG, and they're currently offering a free client download and free year worth of online play. You don't even have to give them a credit card number.

  4. Re:oh well. by Phosphor3k · · Score: 2, Informative

    The public has been playing the beta for the better of the year. Granted, the open beta only started 6 or 8 months ago.