World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the third expansion pack for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following the last expansion Wrath of the Lich King. It was officially announced at BlizzCon on August 21, 2009, although dataminers and researchers discovered details before it was officially announced by Blizzard.^[2] The expansion was officially released on December 7, 2010.

Shortly after the announcement of the release date, on October 12, Blizzard implemented patch 4.0.1, which included the overhaul of the game's playing systems.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, often referred to as WotLK, WLK or Wrath^{[citation needed]}, is the second expansion set for themassively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following The Burning Crusade. It adds a substantial amount of content to the game world, including the continent of Northrend, home of the eponymous Lich King, and a new character "hero" class. It was announced on the first day of BlizzCon 2007, August 3, 2007.^[4][5]

Wrath of the Lich King was released on November 13, 2008, selling 2.8 million copies within the first 24 hours of availability. This made it the fastest selling computer game of all time, beating the record set by the previous World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade, which sold 2.4 million within its first 24 hours. ^[6] It later lost its rank as number one after the third expansion set, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, which was released on December 7, 2010, and had sold over 3.3 million copies within its first 24 hours on the market. 

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, often referred to as TBC or BC, is the first expansion pack for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. It was released on January 16, 2007 at midnight (12:00 AM) in Europe and North America, and sold nearly 2.4 million copies that day to people who waited over night in long lines to get the expansion, making it the fastest-selling PC game in those regions.^[2] It was released on January 17, 2007 in Australia and New Zealand;^[2] in total, approximately 3.53 million copies were sold across these territories in the first month of release, including 1.9 million in North America, over 100,000 copies in Australasia, and nearly 1.6 million in Europe.^[6] It was also released in Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia on January 16, 2007.^[2] It was later released in South Korea on February 1, 2007; in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on April 30, 2007.^[7][8] The game was released in China on September 6, 2007. On June 28, 2011, Blizzard released the game for free to all users who purchased the original game.

World Of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994.^[5] World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous Warcraft release,Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.^[6] Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001.^[7] The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.

The first expansion set of the game, The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16, 2007.^[8] The second expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King, was released on November 13, 2008.^[9] The third expansion set, Cataclysm, was released on December 7, 2010. At BlizzCon in October 2010, lead producer J. Allen Brack announced that there would be a fourth expansion set for the game, though the developers did not yet know what it would be about.^[10]

With 11.1 million subscribers as of June 2011,^[11] World of Warcraft is currently the world's most-subscribed MMORPG,^[9][12][13] and holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular MMORPG by subscribers.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Playstation 3

The PlayStation 3 (プレイステーション3 Pureisutēshon Surī^?, officially abbreviated as PS3.^[6]) is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes withMicrosoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan,^[7] with international markets following shortly thereafter.^[8][9][10]

Major features of the console include its unified online gaming service, the PlayStation Network,^[11] its multimedia capabilities,^[12]connectivity with the PlayStation Portable,^[13] and its use of the Blu-ray Disc as its primary storage medium.^[14]

xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony'sPlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. As of March 31, 2011, there are over 53.6 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide.^[3]

The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at theElectronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The console sold out completely upon release in all regions except in Japan.^[8][9][10]

Several major features of the Xbox 360 are its integrated Xbox Live service that allows players to compete online, download arcade games, game demos, trailers, TV shows, music and movies and its Windows Media Center multimedia capabilities. The Xbox 360 also offers region specific access to third-party media streaming services such as Netflix and ESPN in the US or Sky Go in the UK.

At their E3 presentation on June 14, 2010, Microsoft announced a redesigned Xbox 360 that would ship on the same day.^[11] The redesigned console is slimmer than the previous Xbox 360 model and features integrated 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, TOSLINK S/PDIF optical audio output, 5USB 2.0 ports (compared to the 3 from older versions) and a special AUX port.^[12] Older models of the Xbox 360 have since been discontinued.^[13] The first new console to be released features a 250 GB hard drive, while a later, less expensive SKU features 4 GB internal storage.

With the announcement of the Xbox 360 S, Microsoft have said that they believe that the console is only mid-way through its life-cycle and will continue through 2015.^[14][15][16] In 2009, IGN named the Xbox 360 the sixth greatest video game console of all time, out of a field of 25.^[17]

NHL 12

NHL 12 is an ice hockey video game developed by EA Canada and published by EA Sports. The game was released between September 8–13, 2011, in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America. The game was featured in the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).Steven Stamkos was announced as the game's cover athlete on June 22, 2011, at the NHL Awards Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. For the first time since NHL 2004, the only athlete, Stamkos, is in the cover for all of the regions that NHL 12 was released in. The game notably includes more interactive goalies (i.e. players can have real contact with the goalies and vice versa, and the goalies and skaters may fight each other), better physics engine, improved Be a Pro mode, and the ability to play the 2011 NHL Winter Classic.

Along with several other new EA Sports titles, NHL 12 was made available three days prior the official release dates to purchasers of the EA Sports Season Ticket, a new digital program allowing users with a PlayStation 3 and/or an Xbox 360 to download and test the full version of new EA Sports titles for a three-day trial period by paying an annual fee of $24.99 or 2,000 Microsoft points.^[3][4] Users who pre-ordered the retail version of the game may have received a code for a goalie boost pack, which improves certain parts of the player's goalie in the Be a Pro mode.

Like NHL 11, Gary Thorne (play-by-play) and Bill Clement (color) provide commentary for NHL 12. The first Tuner set was released on September 6, 2011.