Blizzard Entertainment® Soundtracks Now On iTunes

IRVINE, Calif. -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that a wide selection of music from its popular games has been added to the iTunes store. Much of this music was originally available only in collector's editions of the games, or at special events such as the company's BlizzCon® gaming convention. Six Blizzard Entertainment® soundtrack albums are currently available:

StarCraft® Original Soundtrack

Diablo® II Original Soundtrack

Warcraft® III: Reign of Chaos® Original Soundtrack

World of Warcraft® Original Soundtrack

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade® Original Soundtrack

World of Warcraft: Taverns of Azeroth Original Soundtrack

The albums have been placed on a new Blizzard Entertainment hub page within the iTunes store. This page also hosts content such as the BlizzCast™ podcast and trailers and gameplay footage from upcoming Blizzard Entertainment games, with more material to be added in the months ahead. In addition, the "Diablo III Overture" from the company's recently announced action role-playing game, Diablo III, is available as a single and has been highlighted as a Discovery Download, making it free to download until Tuesday, September 9.



Players in the regions iTunes serves (North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan) can purchase the music at standard rates for each of those regions. For more information, please visit www.blizzard.com.

Blizzard working on Next-Gen MMO?

I saw this in my e-mail from Game Informer and had to tell all who are Blizzard fans!!!

Blizzard Working On "Next-Gen MMO"?
by Jeff Cork
POSTED: 4/27/2007 1:20 PM

Blizzard has added a trio of positions to the job-opening section on its Web site, fueling speculation on what exactly the software giant has up its mighty sleeve. The positions—for a lead engine programmer, lead tools programmer and lead technical artist—all mention a focus on "next-generation massively multiplayer online games." This is where nerd minds start racing to fill in the information gaps. Of course, with a planned May product announce in Korea of all places, as well as one of Blizzard's vice president's own enthusiasm for the series, StarCraft seems like a franchise ripe for an MMO treatment...