In CVG's latest instalment in their Creative Minds series, they quiz Bill Roper on life at Blizzard, World of Warcraft, his industry highs and lows and what he hopes to achieve with the studio that's just brought us its debut game Hellgate: London...
CVG: We remember interviewing you back in the day about StarCraft: Ghost. Would you have liked to have seen that game released?
Bill Roper: Definitely, but I also respect and support their decision to put it on the indefinite back burner. I still think the concept is very solid, but Blizzard isn't a console company. And as the requirements and demands of console gamers are very different, they realized that the experience they were crafting wasn't quite right.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
Danish from eXputer: "Despite Blizzard's attempt to give a fresh new spin to World of Warcraft, some fans still seem to be stuck in the past."
HG writes: "Blizzard is usually pretty bad at keeping secrets, but the company somehow managed to keep this one under wraps until now. Plunderstorm is a special limited-time event that’s basically World of Warcraft’s take on the Battle Royale genre."
